🚀 go-pugleaf

reetings,

I seem to be having problems setting up GSNW on an NT Server.  Would
someone please look over the following and tell me what may be
missing:

There was once a Novell Server 3.12 and 5 workstations connected
daisychain with nics that didn't have a utp port, just bnc.  New NT
Network was going to be toally independant of Novell Networ, which
would eventually become one server and a workstation or two to
retrieve "archived" information.  

NT Server 4 machine and 6 Win 98 workstations, 3Com 905B PCI nics (utp
only), 3 COM Office connect Fast only hub.  NT Network was set up just
fine.  Nothing elaborate, just typical shares and DHCP assigning IPs.

It was decided that the transition from old to new would be easier if
we could add Novell se4rver to the NT Domain via GSNW..  Now, I have
set up GSNW before, but not in the way I might have to do it here:

In the course of the transition, I tried inserting the NT server into
the daisychain by adding a second card so that one card communicates
to the NT network, and the second card communicates to the Novell
Server via GSNW.  Unfortunately, the second card in the NT Machine is
not the same as the other, but rather a 3com 509 ISA card.  I was able
set up GSNW (sort of) on this setup.  But, although the NT Server saw
and mapped the Novell Server just fine, the Win 98 workstations
couldn't logon at all.  In fact, the workstations cannot even ping the
second NIC in the server, just the one's they already saw via the 3
com hub. Any idea why?

I dont really want to crack the Novell box and put a a NTP NIC in it,
and even if I did, it would need to talk to a Fast Ethernet hub.  The
Novell box is old and doesn't have any PCI slots . . . . and I don't
know too much about Novell comatability whn it comes to NICS.

So what I guess I'm after is a way to make it work the way it is.
Shouldn't the workstion be able to ping both cards in the server. Or
do I have some incompatability here.

I can ping both cards in the server from the server. I can see the
Netware box from the server. I have NWLINK IPX and TCP/IP on both
cards on the server. I have clent for netware on the workstations.
All workstations log onto NT via DHCP just fine.  I have messed with
setting the frame type on the client IPX from auto to 802.3 and back.
But bottom line is the workstations cant ping second card in server
(the 509 that goes to the Novell server)

In addition, I have set up GSNW before without having to set up an
NTGATEWAY group on the Novell server and use a asername/password that
has all the access I need that is a member of that group.  I figured
that maybe there was something other places that made it work, but
here I needed it.  I tried it with the Novell Supervisor as well as a
user that has normal access to the novell apps.  But this doesn't seem
to make a difference.  Part of me thinks that Novell mapping is part
of my problem.  But if I can't ping the second card from a
workstation, I can't get to the bottom of anything.  

So what do you think.  Am I all screwed up?  I would appreciate
someone stepping in and rescuing me from my mess! <g>

TA

Gary Harris