Managing SNAplus2 Clients
Managing Win16 Clients
[Servers]The [Servers] section of the file contains information about SNAplus2 servers that the client can access, as follows:
Server1
Enter an asterisk (*) or a server name:
•To indicate that the client should attempt to find a server running SNAplus2 by using a UDP broadcast message to all computers on its TCP/IP subnet (or on all subnets that it can access, if the client computer contains more than one LAN adapter card), specify *.
The client retries the broadcast every 10 seconds, up to the number of attempts specified by the broadcast_attempt_count parameter, until it contacts a server. If the limit specified by broadcast_attempt_count is reached before a server has been contacted, the client then tries using directed messages to one or more named servers (specified by the following lines of the file).
•In situations where the client cannot reach any servers using UDP broadcasts, and must use directed messages, specify the name of the first server it should try to contact. This applies in the following cases:
•When the SNAplus2 LAN spans multiple TCP/IP subnets, and there are no SNAplus2 servers in any TCP/IP subnet that the client can access using UDP
•When UDP support is not installed on the client.
•In other cases, the use of UDP broadcasts is optional; to specify that broadcasts should not be attempted, specify the name of the first server instead of *.
Specify the names of additional SNAplus2 servers that the client should contact, in order of preference. If the client has tried to contact a server using a UDP broadcast (or has tried to contact the server specified in Server1), but has received no response, it then
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