Configuring and connecting your PC client
Configuring your client properly ensures that all supported PC clients can locate IBM® i NetServer and use file and print shares.
For information about setting up a Linux
Samba client to use IBM i NetServer, see IBM i NetServer Linux Client
(Samba) Support
on the IBM i NetServer Web site.
Setting up a Windows PC client to find IBM i NetServer
IBM i NetServer supports Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista.
Setting up a Windows PC client to find IBM i NetServer allows you to easily access shared resources from your Windows PC client.
You must first ensure that clients can locate IBM i NetServer on the network.
If this is not the case, network PC clients can use Domain Name System
(DNS), Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS), or
a LMHOSTS file to locate IBM i NetServer.
Note: If IBM i NetServer and
your Windows client are in the same workgroup
(domain) and in the same subnet (network segment), then no additional
setup on the client is needed. If you find IBM i NetServer only by the
IP address, then no additional setup is needed.
If IBM i NetServer is
not placed in the same workgroup and the same subnet as the PC client,
the PC client must use one of the following approaches to locate IBM i NetServer:
- Make an entry for IBM i NetServer in the network Domain Name System (DNS) database. Using DNS is the easiest way to locate and connect to IBM i NetServer.
- IBM i NetServer is configured to register with Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS).
- Create entries for IBM i NetServer in PC client static configuration files (such as LMHOSTS).