Question : Two nics

I have a netware 6.5 sp2 server with 2 nics in it. The system has tcp ip bound to both and are on two seperate networks. 1 public and 1 private. I connect to a terminal server and use that system to connect to the netware server. I was working on it on the weekend. I was working on the bindings and now I am unable to connect to the server. The groupwise email works and I am able to connect to that. I am not able to log into the server or find the tree from the terminal server. I am not 100% but I think the binding order might be messed up. I think the private nic is binding first and the public is binding second. I need that reversed. I need the public nic to listen to the tcp ports, so I can log in via the terminal server since there is only 1 nic on the terminal server. How can I change the binding order and can I do it without rebooting?

Answer : Two nics

Both NICs are listening to the TCP ports. Just perhaps not the TCP ports you want on the NIC you want.

By default, GroupWise will bind to all available IP addresses. So unless you modified that behavior, the fact you can reach GroupWise doesn't help.

You haven't bothered to state on what network (the public or the private) the Terminal Server is on.

Generally, NetWare's configuration is mainly controlled from SYS:SYSTEM\AUTOEXEC.NCF. If you're unable to reach the server from across the network, then go to the console, and at the colon-prompt (:) type --> EDIT AUTOEXEC.NCF

In that file, look for statements such as LOAD PORT= SLOT= FRAME= NAME=
It will be probably be immediately followed by a statement similar to BIND IP TO ADDR= MASK= GATE=

The Default Gateway that NetWare actually uses will be the FIRST one it comes to.

However, if you have used INETCFG, then these statements may have been commented out of AUTOEXEC.NCF and the configuration instead happens thru the INETCFG interface --> LOAD INETCFG