Advanced File and Print Server Installation and Release Notes

Documentation notes

Corrections and additions to the Advanced Server documentation set are included in the following sections:

For the latest documentation updates available, see the SCO Advanced File and Print Server web site at http://www.sco.com/products/afps/doc.html

Terminology

Throughout the SCO Advanced File and Print Server documentation, the terms "Advanced Server" and "Advanced Server for UNIX Systems" are synonymous with "SCO Advanced File and Print Server".

Using online documentation

All SCO Advanced File and Print Server documentation is available online and readable using a Web browser such as Netscape Navigator.

Locating Advanced Server documentation

The Advanced Server books are integrated in to the SCOhelp framework and can be located by navigating to the Networking or DOS and Windows topic sections. The SCOhelp server provides access to the SCOhelp documentation from anywhere on the network.

Navigating online documentation

Advanced Server online documentation is displayed in side-by-side frames in the browser window. The left-hand frame displays the table of contents and the right-hand frame displays the body of the document being viewed. Clicking on a heading in the table of contents cause the browser to display the relevant page in the right-hand frame. You can then navigate through the text using the scroll bar or hypertext links highlighted in the document.

The SCOhelp environment introduces additional frames, containing navigation buttons, at the base of the table of contents and body frames. The SCO Advanced Server Administration Guide, Concepts and Planning Guide and API Reference have not been enhanced to allow for the use of the SCOhelp navigation buttons. It is recommended that, when viewing these documents from within SCOhelp, you do not use the Scohelp navigation buttons but instead use the icons displayed at the end of each page. Clicking on these icons enables navigation to next page, previous page, top of page, index and home.

Client documentation

The SCO Advanced Server Administration Guide refers to documentation for Microsoft client software. This documentation is available only in PostScript (.ps) and Adobe PDF (.pdf) format in the info/afps directory on the Optional Services CD-ROM. PostScript files can be printed by submitting each file directly to a PostScript printer. Adobe PDF files can be viewed and printed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader which can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com.

Manual pages

The Advanced Server manual pages are included in Manual Pages sections (1) - Unrestricted commands and (3) - Library routines. When viewed directly, using either the SCOhelp browser or the man command, the manual pages appear normal. But, if the Advanced Server manual pages are viewed as the result of a SCOhelp search operation, the display is corrupted by erroneous characters.

Corrections to Administration Guide

Upgrading

Chapter 2, "Upgrading", describes how to upgrade an existing Advanced Server 3.5x or LAN Manager for Unix Systems server to Advanced Server 4.0. Whilst other software vendors have provided such products for UnixWare, SCO has not previously provided any of these products for the UnixWare platform. The upgrade capability of the installation software remains intact but SCO cannot guarantee that it will function correctly when upgrading any third party products.

Registry parameters

The following registry parameters have had their default values changed from those given in Appendix A, "Advanced Server Registry":

MixedCaseSupport: the default value has been changed from 0 to 1 so that mixed case file name support is enabled
CreateUnixUser: the default value has been changed from 0 to 1 so that a similarly named UNIX user account is created when an Advanced Server account is created

Lanman.ini parameters

The following Lanman.ini parameters have had their default values changed from those given in Appendix B, "Lanman.ini File":

lmxmsgfile: this parameter is now obsolete
netmsgwait: the default value has been reduced from 300 to 30

Corrections to Concepts and Planning Guide

No sysadm utility

Chapter 6, "Setting Up Print Servers" makes reference to the sysadm utility in the section titled "Configuring a UNIX System Printer". In UnixWare 7, this utility has been superceded by scoadmin.

Corrections to API Reference

Unsupported APIs

Chapter 3, "Unsupported APIs", begins with the sentence: "The following table lists API functions that are no longer not supported". This should read: "The following table lists API functions that are no longer supported".