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     Novell(r) NetWare(r) 386 v3.11 Master Disk Program Technical Data
     Product Number J2242A (Version 3.11) NetWare v3.11
     Large organizations are finding significant benefits in purchasing site
     licenses of networking products. These include the ability to quickly
     distribute preconfigured servers throughout their organization, reduced
     maintenance costs by maintaining the same versions of software
     throughout the organization, and the convenience of ordering at one
     time.
        Hewlett-Packard sells Novell NetWare v3.11 in volumes of 20 servers
     or more. HP's version of NetWare v3.11 is exactly the same as the
     version available from NetWare resellers.
        NetWare v3.11 is a full-featured, 32-bit network operating system
     that supports all key desktop operating systems - DOS, Windows, OS/2,
     UNIX(r), and Macintosh - as well as the IBM SAA environment. NetWare
     v3.11 provides a high performance integration platform for businesses
     requiring a sophisticated enterprise-wide network computing solution in
     a  multivendor environment.
        NetWare v3.11 offers centralized network management, and is available
     from HP in 100- and 250-user versions, allowing organizations to
     standardize on a high performance networking solution regardless of
     their size.

     NetWare v3.11 is ideal for:
     o Customers who need multi-client support for office automation
       applications. These customers need to use the same or similar
       applications on DOS, Windows, Macintosh, OS/2, and UNIX workstations
       and still be able to share data files, printers, scanners, disk space,
       application software, and information.

     o Customers who need support for corporate wide applications. To meet
       their business objectives, these customers must have a network
       reliable enough to guarantee the availability of key applications.

     o Customers who want to standardize on one network operating system to
       meet the needs of remote office, workgroup, department, corporate, and
       enterprise-wide network users. This requires flexible pricing and the
       ability to design systems that vary in capacity, size, and
       applications.

     o Customers who want to protect their investment in current hardware and
       software or who have outgrown their current system. NetWare v3.11
       allows customers who have a significant installed base of host
       systems, applications, or LANs to protect these investments, providing
       an integration platform that ties existing and new services together.
       For customers who began with ELS, Advanced or SFT NetWare, NetWare
       v3.11 provides increased capacity, support for additional desktop
       clients, and the ability to integrate additional communication
       protocols.

     Highlights
     o 32-bit, multitasking operating system that runs on 80386 and 80486
       hardware.
     o Supports DOS, Windows, Macintosh, OS/2 (SE and EE), and UNIX clients.

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     o Supports separate products that provide AFP, AppleTalk, NFS, OSI,
       FTAM, communication, and database services.
     o Sold in 10-0 and 250-user versions.
     o Supports Novell's NetWare Name Service.
     o Provides the ability to manage remote servers from a central site.
     o Allows users to share files, information, applications, printers, and
       other peripherals in a multi-client environment.
     o Provides built-in internal routing services for IPX and TCP/IP
       networks.
     o Provides a complete selection of LAN, disk, and backup services.
     o Allows Novell, third parties, and customers to add new services as
       they are needed.
     o Compatible with thousands of third-party applications and services.
     o Designed to be easy to install and use.

     Features
     o Full 32-bit operating system that takes full advantage of the 80386
       and 80486 processors
     o 80486-aware. When NetWare v3.11 is installed on an 80486-based
       machine, special instructions are implemented that allow it to take
       advantage of 80486 features.
     o Optimized to support distributed applications.
     o Available in 100-user and 250-user versions.
     o Fully compatible and interoperable with previous versions of NetWare.
     o NetWare Loadable Module (NLM) architecture allows additional software
       components to be loaded and unloaded while the server is running. NLMs
       include drivers, utilities, and applications.
     o NetWare v3.11 disk process ensures that volumes are mounted quickly,
       and enables developers to create drivers for WORM, CD-ROM, and
       removable media devices.
     o Dynamic resource configuration feature automatically calculates
       internal system resources needed for optimum performance.
     o Supports up to 4GB or RAM.
     o Supports up to 32 TB of disk storage.
     o Supports up to 64 volumes per server.
     o Files can be up to 4GB and can span physical drives, enabling the
       server to store large databases and applications that once could be
       stored only on minicomputers or mainframes.
     o Network volumes and files can span up to 1,024 physical disk drives.
     o Interoperates with NetWare v2.x.
     o Includes NetWare Remote Management Facility (RMF), enabling network
       supervisors to manage remote servers from their own workstations over
       LAN connections or phone lines.
     o Supports NetWare Name Service (NNS), a separate product that
       simplifies network administration by allowing similar user
       environments to access multiple servers.
     o Includes SBACKUP and NBACKUP, backup and restore utilities that
       provide DOS client-and server-based backup, and backup of multiple
       name space.
     o Provides developers with tools to help them write applications
       optimized to run on the NetWare v3.11 platform. These tools include
       the NetWare CLIB, Btrieve v5.15, event notification, and more than 800
       documented APIs.


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     Workstation Support
     o Includes the DOS Client Shell v3.01, which includes extended and
       expanded memory options.
     o Is fully compatible with Microsoft(r) Windows 3.0 and Quarterdeck's
       DESQview.
     o Supports workstations running DOS 3.x, 4.x and 5.x.
     o A preferred server option enables users to specify which default
       server they will be attached to when they log in. Users may attach up
       to 8 servers at a time.
     o Includes the NetWare Requester for OS/2 v1.31, which enables OS/2
       workstations to interoperate on a NetWare network. The NetWare
       requester for OS/2 supports OS/2 Standard and Extended Editions.
     o The NetWare Requester for OS/2 supports server-based applications.
       Support for both DOS and OS/2 Named Pipes is included. (Support for
       OS/2 V.2 is also provided as an option).
     o When used with the appropriate add-on services, NetWare v3.11 allows
       Apple Macintosh, NFS, and OSI FTAM clients to access NetWare services
       from their native environments.

     Security
     o Network access is based on user profiles assigned by the network
       supervisor. The five access levels are password, trustee, file,
       directory, and file rights.
     o The MONITOR server application locks the console keyboard until a
       password is typed.
     o Expiration dates and resource usage limits can be assigned to user
       accounts.
     o System supervisors can limit the amount of disk storage available to a
       user. Storage limitations can be placed on specific directories as
       well.
     o Allowable login days, time of day, physical locations, and number of
       incorrect login attempts can be limited for each user account.
     o Half-hour security checks determine whether a user can log in (or is
       permitted to be logged in) during that time period, whether a user's
       account has expired or been disabled, and whether a user's account has
       run out of funds.
     o Unauthorized or overdrawn user accounts are automatically logged out
       every half hour (following a five-minute warning).
     o A resource accounting feature allows network supervisors to charge
       users for connection time, bytes read or written to disk, use of
       storage space on disks, or the number of requests made by a
       workstation. Rates can vary by the hour and by the day. Supervisors
       can assign credit limits and have the system monitor users account
       balances and log them off if they exceed their credit limits.

     Reliability
     o Read-after-write verification capabilities allow NetWare v3.11 to
       ensure that data is readable at the time it is written.
     o Hot Fix provides disk media defect detection and correction. When a
       bad block is detected, the data is moved to a safe area of the disk
       and the bad block is marked as unusable.
     o Duplicate directory structures and file allocation tables ensure data
       integrity.

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     o Disk mirroring allows NetWare v3.11 to maintain redundant disk drives
       on the same channel. If the primary disk fails, the secondary (mirror
       image) takes over automatically with no loss of data. NetWare v3.11
       supports up to eight mirrored disks.
     o Disk duplexing allows NetWare v3.11 to maintain redundant disk
       channels in a server. If a disk drive, controller, or host interface
       fails, automatic recovery and log entry occur without loss of
       operation or data.
     o TTS (Transaction Tracking System) allows NetWare v3.11 to track
       changes to critical files. If a system failure occurs during such a
       transaction, NetWare v3.11 will back out of the transaction and leave
       the files as they were before the transaction began.
     o A UPS (uninterruptible power supply) monitoring feature allows servers
       to monitor an attached uninterruptible power supply. When power
       failure occurs, NetWare v3.11 will notify all current users. After a
       configurable timeout, the system will log out any remaining users,
       close any open files, and shut itself down.

     Application Support
     o Includes server-based version of Btrieve v5.15 for database
       applications.
     o Supports other programming interfaces, including resource accounting,
       queue management, network diagnostics, and security.
     o Coexists with OS/2 distributed applications. When used with the
       NetWare Requester for OS/2, which is bundled with the operating
       system, NetWare 386 networks can support OS/2 server-based
       applications, such as the Microsoft/Sybase SQL Server and Oracle
       Server for OS/2, running in applications servers.

     Communications
     o Provides the platform for NetWare communication Services products,
       Novell's LAN-to-host, LAN-to-LAN, and remote-to-LAN connectivity
       solution.
     o Supports a variety of network hardware, including Ethernet,
       Token-Ring, Arcnet, and other familiar network adapters.
     o Internal routing capability allows up to 16 network adapters to be
       installed per server, with fully transparent internetwork routing.
     o Includes a source routing NLM that enables NetWare IPX packets to be
       routed through IBM source routing bridges.
     o Includes NetBIOS support.
     o Provides the TCP/IP transport protocol.

     Product Requirements
     Required Hardware
        NetWare v3.11 requires a network server computer, workstations, and
     network adapters that have been properly installed and connected. In the
     server, NetWare v3.11 requires a minimum of 4 MB of RAM. More memory may
     be required,  depending on the number of users, the load they put on the
     server, the number of NLMs loaded, and the size of the network hard
     disks. (More than 70 MB of disk storage requires additional memory.)
     NetWare v3.11's dynamic resource configuration feature notifies the
     network supervisor when more memory will improve server performance. To
     load the software, servers must be equipped with high-capacity floppy
     disk drives (5.25-inch, 1.2 MB or 3.5-inch, 1.44 MB). For a complete

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     list of servers certified to work with NetWare v3.11, contact your
     HP Sales Representative or a Novell Gold or Platinum Reseller.
        IBM PCs, XTs, ATs and compatibles, and all models of the IBM PS/2
     family of computers can be used as network workstations as well as the
     Macintosh II family and the Macintosh SE, Plus, and 512Ke. Contact your
     HP Sales Representative or a Novell Gold or Platinum Reseller for an
     up-to-date list of compatible workstations.
        The type of network adapter used depends on the type of computer used
     as a server or workstation. In 32-bit Micro Channel servers on Ethernet
     networks, Novell recommends using the NE/2-32. The 32-bit bus of the
     NE/2-32 allows users to gain the full performance potential of NetWare
     v3.11 by increasing the amount of data that can be moved on and off the
     network and into server memory. For Extended Industry Standard
     Architecture (EISA) servers on Ethernet networks, Novell recommends the
     NE3200, a 32-bit bus master adapter.
        Following is a list of adapter drivers bundled with NetWare v3.11.
     Novell will provide additional drivers in future versions of NetWare
     v3.11. Third-party adapter manufacturers will also supply adapter
     drivers.

     Server Drivers

     ISA Bus
     NE1000
     NE2000
     Novell Turbo RX-Net (Arcnet)
     RPL, including source routing support
     IBM Token-Ring (16Mbit/s and 4Mbit/s)
     3Com 3C505
     3Com 3C503
     IBM PC Network Adapter II and PC Network Adapter II/A

     Micro Channel Bus
     Novell NE/2
     Novell NE/2-32
     RPL, including source routing support
     IBM Token-Ring (16 Mbit/s and 4Mbit/s)
     2Com 3C523 (twisted pair and thin coaxial)

     EISA Bus
     Novell NE3200

     Workstation Open Data-Link Interface (ODI) Drivers

     ISA Bus
     NE1000
     NE2000
     Novell Turbo RX-Net (Arcnet)
     IBM Token-Ring (16 Mbit/s and 4 Mbit/s, including RPL for IBM diskless
     workstation)
     3Com 3C501
     3Com 3C505
     3Com 3C503
     EXOS 205

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     IBM PC Network Adapter II/A

     MicroChannel Bus
     Novell NE/2
     Novell NE/2-32
     Novell RPL (for IBM diskless workstations - Token-Ring)
     IBM Token-Ring (16 Mbit/s and 4Mbit/s)
     EXOS 215T
     3Com 3C523

     EISA Bus
     NE3200

     Required Software
     NetWare v3.11 contains all the software necessary to install and operate
     the Network server and connect up to 100 or 250 DOS, OS/2, or Windows
     workstations to the network, depending on the version purchased.

     Options
     The NetWare operating system can be used with every other product Novell
     provides. For example, NetWare functions as a platform for Novell's
     NetWare Communication Services products, which include NetWare for SAA,
     NetWare Communication Services Manager, and the NetWare 3270 LAN
     Workstations for DOS, Macintosh, and Windows. The NetWare Access Server,
     NetWare Link products, and NetWare SQL 386 also run with NetWare v3.11.
        Add-on services can be purchased that enable Apple Macintosh, NFS,
     and OSI FTAM clients to connect directly to the NetWare v3.11 server.
     NetWare Name Service provides simplified internetwork administration by
     enabling the network supervisor to designate groups of servers, called
     domains. With NNS, users access may be more easily managed across
     multiple servers.
        Users may need to purchase the Supplemental Driver Kit to use some
     network adapters. Novell supports a variety of network adapters, but
     only bundles drivers for the most widely used adapters with NetWare
     operating systems.
        To purchase these options, contact a Novell Gold or Platinum
     Reseller.

     Specifications
     Logical users supported
       - 100 or 250
     Concurrent open
       - 100,000
     Directory entries per volume
       - 2,097,152
     Volumes per server
       - 64
     Logical drives per volume
       - 32
     Maximum disk storage capacity
       - 32 TB*
     Maximum RAM
       - 2GB *
     Maximum file size

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       - 4GB

     * Maximums listed are individual limits. Users may not be able to use
     these specifications at maximum levels at all times. They may have to
     purchase additional equipment to achieve some of these maximums. Some
     maximums may not be available with current hardware technology.
     Advancements in current hardware technology may be required to achieve
     stated maximums.)

     Novell-Certified Servers
     For a complete list of certified servers, contact an HP Sales
     Representative or a Novell Authorized Reseller.

     Installation and Support
     Installation
        Novell NetWare v3.11 is a customer installable product. However, the
     customer can purchase installation from HP if desired.

     Hardware Support Services
     Provides customers with standard hardware support for their HP 9000,
     HP 3000, HP 1000, and HP PC hardware.

     HP Software Support Services
     Software Product Materials Vectra PC - Entitles the customer to receive
     updated software and documentation for any revisions to the product up
     to but not including the next upgrade.

     HP BasicLine Software Support - Provides customer with self-support
     through right-to-use updates and access to electronic database.

     HP ResponseLine Software Support - Provides all the services of
     HP BasicLine Software Support plus unlimited access to the Response
     Center for problem resolution assistance.

     HP TeamLine Software Support - Provides all the services of
     HP ResponseLine Software Support plus a local account-assigned
     HP Service Engineer, who will assist the customer with proactive
     planning and other support needs.

     Network Support Services
     HP WireTest - Verifies the suitability of the customer's existing
     twisted-pair cabling for their network. By utilizing sophisticated
     tests, which quickly and accurately evaluate existing cabling, the
     customer can potentially save a substantial investment that would be
     required for rewiring.

     Network Planning and Design - Provides customers with a comprehensive
     network strategy that supports their business objectives. HP Network
     consultants analyze the customer's communication requirements and create
     a detailed network design based on these requirements.

     Network Startup - Provides customers with quick implementation of their
     network, a simplified service interface, verified network operation, and

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     assured ongoing supportability. Please refer to the HP Network Startup
     data sheet for more information.

     NetAssure - Provides customers with fault isolation and assistance with
     problem resolution anywhere on their networks. Please refer to the
     HP NetAssure data sheet for more information.

     PCLAN  -  Provides Novell Customer with a single source of support for
     NetWare and HP PC-based local area networks and personal computers and
     peripherals attached to the network.

     Ordering Information
     J2242A  Master Copy Disk for Netware v3.11
     J2242A  UBD   Manuals, Disks and 1 100-user server license
     J2242A  UD6   Manuals, Disks and 1 250-user server license
     J2242A  UCU   Right-to-copy 1 100-user server license
     J2242A  UCV   Right-to-copy 1 250-user server license

     Customers may purchase either 100- or 250-user licenses. A minimum order
     of 20 units is required. Customers must order 1 and only 1 of option UBD
     if they are ordering 100-user servers and 1 and only 1 of option UD6 if
     they are ordering the 250-user servers. The remainder of the licenses
     must be ordered using options UCU or UCV. The total of all options must
     be 20 or more. Add-on orders must also be in units of 20 or more.
        Customers will receive server and client software on both 3.5" and
     5.25" discs.

     Documentation
     Novell NetWare 386 v3.11 Master Disk Program includes the following
     documentation:

     Related Products

     B1823A  HP ARPA Services 2.1/Novell
     D1819A  HP Network Services 2.1/Novell
     Various HP NewWave Office Products

     Microsoft(r) is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

     UNIX(r) is a U.S. registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories Inc.
     in the U.S.A. and other countries.

     Novell(r) and NetWare(r) are U.S. registered trademarks of Novell
     Corporation.

     From HP Networking Communications Specification Guide,
        5091-3821E, 9205, p 513
     Associated files:

     Novell(r) NetWare(r) 386 v3.11 Master Disk Program Technical Data