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* C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMLAN\NETPROG\NETSTCMD.CMD  
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with the paramenter "START PEER".
with the paramenter "START PEER".
'''WPS'''
It is a good thing that the OS/2-eCS Desktop is intelligent and point the icons on the desktop to right places.
[[image:IBMLAN_001.png]]


'''Testing'''
'''Testing'''

Revision as of 18:34, 22 July 2014

Warning: This is an experiment. OS/2 and eComStation may became unstable.

This experiment is for the people that will like to move some directories that are installed by default on the root drive.

OS/2 and eComStation has the following directories installed on the root:

So let's see what happens:

IBMGSK

IBMGSK is a set of libraries for RSA encription for some programs. It is hard to know if it is ok to move them since (as far as I know) they are only usefull for some programns like IBM Personal Communicator, IBM HTTP Server and maybe IBM DB2 on OS/2.

So moving it for example to \OS2\SYSTEM does not gives problem in this experiment.

Config.sys Changes:

  • LIBPATH=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMGSK50\LIB;C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMGSK40\LIB;C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMGSK\LIB;
  • PATH=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMGSK50\BIN;C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMGSK40\BIN;C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMGSK\BIN;
  • SET IKEYMAN40_HOME=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMGSK40
  • SET IKEYMAN50_HOME=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMGSK50
  • SET IKEYMAN_HOME=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMGSK

Testing:

I have not tested if this component is working fine. It surely does not break OS/2 by moving it, but I can not be sure of the software that uses this libraries works.

DMISL

This directory which seems to be the IBM OS/2 DMTF Service Layer‎ and used by the "Problem Determination Tools", looks that there is not problematic to move. But I'm not a "Problem Determination Tools" expert.

So moving it for example to \OS2\SYSTEM does not gives problem in this experiment.

But notice that since some utilities are running in the backgound the SLDB.DMI file can not be moved, but it will get created automatically on the next boot according the DMIPATH path location.

Config.sys Changes:

  • SET DMIPATH=C:OS2\SYSTEM\DMISL\BIN


Testing:

I don't use the OS/2's "Problem Determination Tools", so I'm not sure about if it is working 100%. The SLDB.DMI got automatically created in the new location after loading.

LANGUAGE

The Language Directory‎ is required for UNICODE.SYS to work right, and UNICODE.SYS is required for JFS.IFS. The config.sys statement is by default "SET ULSPATH=C:\LANGUAGE"

This directory is giving me some errors if I move it.

When "UNICODE.SYS" loads in the boot procedure it gives some errors that can not found the files if you move them.

IBMLAN

This is part of the IBM LAN Server, which is the thing that helps you connect to other OS/2 servers and clients to share files and services.

Config.sys Changes

  • DEVICE=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMLAN\NETPROG\RDRHELP.200
  • IFS=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMLAN\NETPROG\NETWKSTA.200 /I:C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMLAN /N
  • DEVICE=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMLAN\NETPROG\VNETAPI.OS2
  • LIBPATH=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMLAN\NETLIB;
  • PATH=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMLAN\NETPROG;
  • DPATH=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMLAN\NETPROG;C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMLAN;
  • HELP=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMLAN\NETPROG;
  • BOOKSHELF=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMLAN\NETPROG;
  • SET NWDBPATH=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMLAN\NETPROG
  • SET DLSINI=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMLAN\NETPROG\NETGUI.INI
  • RUN=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMLAN\NETPROG\LSDAEMON.EXE
  • RUN=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMLAN\NETPROG\VNRMINIT.EXE

Startup

On the startup procedure on OS/2 it runs

  • C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMLAN\NETPROG\NETSTCMD.CMD

with the paramenter "START PEER".

WPS

It is a good thing that the OS/2-eCS Desktop is intelligent and point the icons on the desktop to right places.

Testing

Sadly, I'm no expert on this component, and I don't have several OS/2 machines sharing files with this functionality.

I made some basic "NET USE" commands, logged in without problems to the local machine.

NET START also worked:

[C:\]net start
Checking IP configuration ...
These services are started:
REQUESTER                MESSENGER                PEER
The command completed successfully.