Article Title	 	: SunPC_Novell
Creation Date		: 07/01/93
Message ID		: JGRNSQ
Last Update		: 
Expiration Rules	: unknown
Location		: NCD-Articles/Host_Systems/Sun
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[Note to the audience: this is one of those things to file away in order
to ensure that you never need it ...]

Background: a customer is running NCD 19r's with Sun SPARCstation
servers.  They purchased SunPC in order to run DOS and Novell
applications.  SunPC worked fine on a SPARCstation IPX, but failed on
the NCD's:

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When we try running it on the X terminal, it works, but only so far.
It puts up the graphics PC window, shows us a C prompt, lets us give
DOS commands, etc.  When we try to do this sequence:

        F:
        cd \novell
        netx

We get the error message:

        Could not load Novell library

(The next step is supposed to be ipx and then the network connect is in
place.  So we are two steps short of a connect.)
[I believe he has the ordering of ipx vs. netx wrong.]
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I visited the customer this morning, and after he demonstrated Novell
app's working on the IPX but not on the NCD, I trace'd SunPC.  After a
little bit of poking around, the problem turned out to be a SunPC bug
in locating the Novell [shared] library.  According to the trace, it
tried to open the "directory" specified by $LD_LIBRARY_PATH - which
consisted of at least two directories ($OPENWINHOME/lib and the Novell
library), separated by a colon (apparently news to some developer).

Fortunately, SunPC also looks for the library in the /novell/lib directory,
so after we copied the shared library into that directory, it worked fine
on the NCD.  (I don't know why it worked on the Ss IPX, when the user's
LD_LIBRARY_PATH env. var. contained two directories ...)  Another work-
around that should work would be to put sym-links to the OpenWindow's
libraries into /usr/lib, and then set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to only reference
the Novell library directory.

For the record, this was SunPC 3.1 running on SunOS 4.1.3.