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The Question is: Being completely new to the VAx system and being completely Microsoft Literate, I have little idea about the VAX system. But I need to connect a Windows 95 PC to a VAX running ver 5.5 of VMS. Where do I find the Node address and how will it find the VAx server if I install Digital Pathworks 32 onto the PC??????? Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Answer is : The OpenVMS Wizard would encourage purusing the OpenVMS product documentation, and would recommend an OpenVMS upgrade to a rather more recent OpenVMS VAX version. Assuming a relatively recent version of the TCP/IP Services package (formerly known as UCX) is installed on the OpenVMS VAX system, you can obtain host information via the configuration tool (UCX$CONFIG) or directly via UCX commands such as the following: $ UCX SHOW INTERFACE SHOW COMMUNICATIONS If the UCX command fails, then you will need to acquire a license and install a TCP/IP package such as TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS. (Systems with a NAS prodcut license will typically have the ability to install and use packages such as TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS.) As for how the PC locates the host address, this is generally performed via an explicit manual database entry in the PC data files for IP, or via the (prefered) DNS lookup operation. This means that the name of the OpenVMS VAX system is entered into the DNS server. TCP/IP Services can act as a DNS server if so configured, and Microsoft Windows systems can be configured to access and use DNS to translate IP host names to host addresses. The version of OpenVMS in use (V5.5) is sufficiently old that support and features can become an issue -- OpenVMS VAX V7.2 is the current release. Capabilities such as support for Microsoft COM and such are available starting with V7.2. The use of a PATHWORKS client will typically require the installation of a PATHWORKS server kit on the OpenVMS VAX system.
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