PATHWORKS for OpenVMS (Advanced Server)

Updated: 24 May 2001

Server Administrator's Guide

Order Number: AA--R6G6B--TE January 1999

This guide explains how to customize and manage PATHWORKS for OpenVMS (Advanced Server) servers.

Revision/Update Information: This guide supersedes the PATHWORKS for OpenVMS (Advanced Server) Server Administrator's Guide, order number AA--R6G6A--TE.

Operating System: OpenVMS Alpha V7.1
OpenVMS VAX V7.1
OpenVMS Alpha V7.2
OpenVMS VAX V7.2

Software Version: PATHWORKS for OpenVMS (Advanced Server) V6.0B

Compaq Computer Corporation Houston, Texas

First Published, March 1994
Revised, January 1999

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Contents Index

Preface

About This Guide

Welcome to the PATHWORKS for OpenVMS (Advanced Server) Server Administrator's Guide. For the purpose of this text, the PATHWORKS for OpenVMS (Advanced Server) software is referred to as the PATHWORKS Advanced Server. The PATHWORKS Advanced Server and its associated OpenVMS system platform provide a powerful, reliable, and open operating environment that meets the demands of client-server computing.

This Server Administrator's Guide presents step-by-step procedures for managing and maintaining the PATHWORKS Advanced Server. It describes how to complete common tasks, such as managing files and directories, printing, and administering the network. Unless otherwise noted, commands used in procedures and examples are PATHWORKS Advanced Server ADMINISTER commands.

Intended Audience

This guide is for the OpenVMS network administrator. As the administrator, you must be familiar with the OpenVMS operating system to support the server, and with other operating systems to support clients. It is also expected that you have had experience managing an OpenVMS system and doing network administration, and that you are familiar with the specific network configuration being managed.

You are assumed to have read the following product manuals:

Advanced Server for OpenVMS Concepts and Planning Guide
PATHWORKS for OpenVMS Server Installation and Configuration Guide
Advanced Server for OpenVMS Guide to Managing Advanced Server Licenses

If you are upgrading your server from a previous version such as PATHWORKS for OpenVMS (LAN Manager), be sure to follow the procedures in the PATHWORKS for OpenVMS (Advanced Server) Server Migration Guide.

You are assumed to have access to the following documentation:

Advanced Server for OpenVMS Commands Reference Manual
Documentation for any clients running other operating systems

This guide addresses use of the PATHWORKS for OpenVMS (Advanced Server) only.

Document Structure

The following table lists the chapters in this guide.

Chapter Description

Chapter 1 Provides an overview of this guide.

Chapter 2 Describes how to manage servers and domains with the PATHWORKS Advanced Server software.

Chapter 3 Describes how to manage users and groups in the PATHWORKS Advanced Server environment.

Chapter 4 Describes how to share disk resources, including directory and file sharing.

Chapter 5 Describes how to share printer resources, including printers and print queues.

Chapter 6 Describes how to monitor events and troubleshoot your server.

Chapter 7 Describes the Configuration Manager tool and how to use it to configure and tune your server.

Appendix A Describes how to modify the LANMAN.INI parameters.

Appendix B Describes each of the supported network protocols.

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Use the following World Wide Web address to order additional documentation:

http://www.openvms.digital.com:81/

If you need help deciding which documentation best meets your needs, call 800-DIGITAL (800-344-4825).

Conventions

The term PATHWORKS Advanced Server is used in this guide to refer to the PATHWORKS for OpenVMS (Advanced Server) file and print server.

The following conventions are used in the PATHWORKS Advanced Server documentation:

Convention Meaning

Ctrl/ x Indicates where you should hold down the Ctrl key while pressing another key ( x).

Italic Indicates a place holder for information or parameters that you must provide. For example, if the procedure asks you to type filename, you must type the actual name of a file. Italics also indicate path names, new terms, and the titles of other documents.

monospace Indicates examples of screen display text or entries that you might type.

Return or Enter Indicates where you should press the Return key to execute a command or terminate a sequence. This key is labeled Return or Enter, depending on your keyboard.

UPPERCASE Indicates OpenVMS commands and qualifiers. You can enter commands and qualifiers in any combination of uppercase and lowercase characters, unless otherwise noted.

Note Provides information of special importance.

Caution Provides information to avoid damaging hardware or software.

Warning Provides information that is essential to people's safety.

/ A forward slash in command descriptions indicates that a command qualifier follows.

... A horizontal ellipsis following an entry in a command line indicates that the entry or a similar entry can be repeated any number of times. An ellipsis following a file name indicates that additional parameters, values, or information can be entered.

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. A vertical ellipsis in an example indicates that not all the data is shown.

Chapter 1
Overview

1.1 Introduction

PATHWORKS Advanced Server software provides a flexible system for managing wide area networks (WANs) and local area networks (LANs). The PATHWORKS Advanced Server software lets you use Compaq Computer Corporation computers as servers to share network resources with supported clients and is compatible with Window NT servers running in the same network.

The PATHWORKS Advanced Server is an OpenVMS-based network operating system (NOS) compatible with Microsoft networking technology.

As a server for computers in a network, the PATHWORKS Advanced Server provides file and print services that enable the efficient sharing of computing resources among a community of desktop users. It can function as a file and print server for a small, isolated community of users or as the foundation of a large network distributed over a wide geographical area.

You can perform PATHWORKS Advanced Server management tasks from any client or server that is running Windows NT server administration tools, and from any PATHWORKS Advanced Server using the Advanced Server ADMINISTER commands. This document shows you how to manage your servers using PATHWORKS Advanced Server software.

This overview of PATHWORKS Advanced Server describes the role of the network administrator, and the features available with PATHWORKS Advanced Server, in the following sections:

The Role of the Administrator --- describes what you do, as the server administrator, and what tasks you perform to administer the network.
The PATHWORKS Advanced Server Network --- describes the components of the network, its features, and services.
Resource Sharing --- describes the resources you can share, such as directories and print queues, and how to share them.
Monitoring Events and Troubleshooting --- describes the tools you use to track resource use and to modify your network configurations.
Network Administration Interfaces --- describes the server and client software interfaces with which you manage your servers, including the PATHWORKS Advanced Server ADMINISTER command line interface.
The PATHWORKS ADMINISTER Command Line Interface --- describes the PATHWORKS Advanced Server ADMINISTER command line interface.

1.2 The Role of the Administrator

When you administer any network, you plan, set up, and maintain that network. For information on planning and design, see the Advanced Server for OpenVMS Concepts and Planning Guide.

In planning your network, you complete the following tasks:

Organize the network into domains
Decide how to configure each server in a domain
Evaluate new applications and peripherals

After planning your network and putting all hardware and connecting links in place, you install and configure PATHWORKS Advanced Server software. You can then use the instructions in this document to customize and manage the server.

1.2.1 Setting Up the PATHWORKS Advanced Server Environment

As part of your installation, described in the PATHWORKS for OpenVMS Server Installation and Configuration Guide, you specify parameters to establish your network. After installation, you can modify server parameters by changing or adding values to the LANMAN.INI file. For more information, see Appendix A, The LANMAN.INI File in this guide.

The PATHWORKS Configuration Manager allows you to modify PATHWORKS Advanced Server server parameter values, such as client capacity, OpenVMS process priority, and network transports. For more information, see Chapter 7, Managing Your Configuration.

Initial server configuration is performed when you install and configure the server software. The initial configuration command procedure, PWRK$CONFIG.COM, allows you to invoke the Configuration Manager so you can specify server parameters during initial configuration. The initial configuration procedure is described in the PATHWORKS for OpenVMS Server Installation and Configuration Guide. After you complete the initial installation and configuration, you can run the Configuration Manager to modify certain server configuration parameters, and you can modify the LANMAN.INI file to change other server parameters.

1.2.2 Administering the Network

Once you have planned and set up your overall network configuration, you support it by performing the following tasks:

Maintaining user accounts, shares, and other resources, such as printers
Monitoring events and troubleshooting server problems

1.2.2.1 Maintaining User Accounts, Shares, and Resources

Performing this maintenance includes:

Keeping records of the network configuration
Adding new users who need access to server resources
Removing users who no longer need access to server resources
Setting up and controlling shared directories
Setting up and controlling shared print queues
Installing application software
Controlling server disk storage space
Backing up and restoring server files

1.2.2.2 Monitoring Events and Troubleshooting Server Problems

You may need to perform certain infrequently used procedures to resolve network problems caused by unexpected conditions; for example, faulty wiring, faulty hardware, or overloaded servers or printers. PATHWORKS Advanced Server provides commands and diagnostic tools to help you isolate and fix such problems.

The Chapter 6, Monitoring Events and Troubleshooting section describes some ways to monitor and troubleshoot your network.

1.3 The PATHWORKS Advanced Server Network

A PATHWORKS Advanced Server network consists of computers, both servers and clients. Servers control resources that client systems on the network can use. Clients are typically PC-based systems that need access to resources on the server. Workstations and other computers running networking software that can access network resources can be clients.

Supported client operating systems include Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows for Workgroups, and MS-DOS. PATHWORKS client software is supported but not required.

Servers can run the following software:

PATHWORKS V6 for OpenVMS (Advanced Server)
PATHWORKS V5 for OpenVMS (LAN Manager)
Advanced Server for DIGITAL UNIX
Windows NT Server V3.51 or V4

1.3.1 Domains

To help you manage a large and diverse network, PATHWORKS Advanced Server software lets you divide the network into domains, or administrative groups of servers and clients. With domains, control of user access to the network and its resources is centralized and simplified, and you can establish exactly which servers a specific user can access.

A domain is a collection of computers that share a common user accounts database and security policy. You create a domain when you install the PATHWORKS Advanced Server, by specifying the domain name and designating a server to be a primary domain controller. To enable users to access resources in domains where they have no user accounts, you can establish trust relationships between domains. This provides flexibility when configuring large networks with multiple domains. For more information on trusted and trusting domains, see the Advanced Server for OpenVMS Concepts and Planning Guide. For more information on managing domains, see Chapter 2, Managing Domains and Servers.

1.3.2 Security

PATHWORKS Advanced Server provides two security models:

Advanced Server Only security model
Advanced Server and OpenVMS security model

The Advanced Server Only security model provides access based on PATHWORKS Advanced Server user account security policies and user access rights on shared resources. The Advanced Server and OpenVMS security model provides access based on both PATHWORKS Advanced Server and OpenVMS security policies. This is useful when users require OpenVMS security enforcement.

1.3.3 Users

A user who needs access to resources shared on a server must have access to one of the following:

A PATHWORKS Advanced Server user account established on that server. A user account contains all the information that the PATHWORKS Advanced Server needs to define a user, including the user name, a description, and a password.
A server that provides guest access to its resources.
A server that provides access based on domain trust relationships.

The user account, with its associated password, identifies the user to the PATHWORKS Advanced Server software. You can enable logon restrictions for each user account; for example, limiting the hours during which the user can access server resources and defining an account profile.

You can assign access permissions to users for resources, specifying the type of access each user can have to a resource. You can assign a different set of permissions for each user and for each shared resource. By default, a shared resource is available to all users. If you use the PATHWORKS Advanced Server security model, access permissions grant access to OpenVMS files and directories on the server, regardless of the OpenVMS file protections. For more information on the interaction of these two access permissions, see Chapter 4, Managing Directory and File Sharing.

1.3.4 Groups

To simplify administration of access permissions, you define groups of users. The members of a group are users and other groups. Groups provide an easy way to grant common capabilities to several users; group permissions are provided to all its members. A group can be either local or global.

A global group is a collection of user accounts allowed to access resources in one domain. It can also be assigned permissions to use resources in a trusting domain. A global group:

Can be used to assign permissions and rights within the domain
Cannot contain other groups as members
Cannot contain users from another domain
Cannot contain groups from another domain

A local group can include users and global groups from its own domain and from trusted domains. Thus, it provides access to resources in its domain to users in its domain and in trusted domains.

For more information about groups, see Chapter 3, Managing Users and Groups.

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