Remote Reset

Software that allows you to boot a DOS workstation (including a diskless workstation) from a remote boot image file on a NetWare server, rather than from a boot diskette in the workstation's local drive.

To use Remote Reset to boot a workstation, install a Remote Reset PROM on the station's network board and run the DOSGEN utility.

DOSGEN uploads the station's boot files into a remote boot image file, NET$DOS.SYS, in the server's LOGIN directory.

The remote boot image file includes the station's AUTOEXEC.BAT file, used by the station as if the file were present on a local boot diskette.

Copy the workstation's AUTOEXEC.BAT file to the remote boot image file, to the LOGIN directory, and to any default directory named in the workstation's login script.

Using Remote Reset with Multiple Servers

If you have multiple NetWare servers on your network, copy the remote boot image files onto each server that may come up as the remote boot workstation's default server.

Then, if the first default server isn't available, the station can boot from the next available server.

Using Multiple Remote Boot Image Files

For multiple workstations with different configurations to use Remote Reset, upload multiple remote boot image files into SYS:LOGIN.

Instead of the single NET$DOS.SYS file, create a separate remote boot image file for each workstation. Name the image files for each user (for example, FRED.SYS for user FRED).

Then, in the LOGIN directory, create a BOOTCONF.SYS file, which is a DOS text file that, for each station's network board, identifies the

• IPX external network number
• Node number
• Remote boot image filename (FRED.SYS)

See also the Novell Client documentation.