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I am working these issues.  The Enterprise server is a piece of cake 
and is no different than the comerce server.  I have figured out what 
is needed for the mail server.  Next I'll do the proxy server and 
innd.

I'll dedicate a reply to each.

Ase configuration for a Netscape WWW server is very simple and
requires the following steps:

1 - have an ASE service that does IP aliasing. NFS and optionaly
    DISK ASE services provide automatic IP aliasing.  The User
    Defined service can also do IP Aliasing via 
    "ifconfig <controller> alias <IP Address> netmask <netmask> up"
    statements in the start and stop action scripts.

2 - Optionaly have the ASE start and stop action scripts start and
    stop the netscape www server. 

3 - Optionaly place the netscape www document root on the ASE disk.
    Doing so allows for maintaing only one copy of the document
    root.  This require an ASE NFS or Disk service.  If you have
    seperate copies, all ASE servers could have an ASE IP alias and
    serve the same data with load sharing implimented via round
    robin DNS.

To get Netscape Mail to work in an ASE environment you neet to
take the following steps:


  1 - install software on all ASE servers using the defaults for
      postoffice and mailbox directories.  Tell it about all ASE
      servers and services with the primary name being the ASE
      Service Name for mail.

  2 - On the "reference server" add and entry for each ASE Server
      in Mail Administrator's internet address
      ([email protected]).

  3 - copy ns-home/bin/mail/ from the reference server to
      <ase_disk>/ns-mail/

  4 - Link ns-home/bin/mail to <ase_disk>/ns-mail on all servers

  5 - copy /var/spool/mailbox/ from the reference server to
      <ase_disk>/spool/mailbox

  6 - copy /var/spool/postoffice/ from the reference server to
      <ase_disk>/spool/postoffice

  7 - modify /etc/netscape.mail.conf postoffice and mailbox lines
      to point to the new location on all ASE servers.

  8 - Mofify the ASE start action script to invoke
      "ns-home/bin/mail/server/etc/init.NscpMail start"

  9 - Mofify the ASE stop action script in the "RUNNING"
      section to invoke
      "ns-home/bin/mail/server/etc/init.NscpMail stop"

In an ASE mail environment only one server has the mailbox directory at 
any given time.  The other servers in the environment need to forward all 
mail to the ASE mail server.  This is done by the following steps.

1 - place a copy of D-UNIX sendmail in /usr/sbin/sendmail.D-UNIX
    ( if you have installed netscape mail,
     "mv /usr/sbin/sendmail.bak /usr/sbin/sendmail.D-UNIX")

2 - place a link from /usr/sbin/sendmail.netscape to
    /usr/ns-home/bin/mail/server/bin/sendmail

3 - copy /var/adm/sendmail/.proto..sendmail.cf to
    /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf

4 - run mailsetup for a quick configuration and when it asks
    for the server name, give it the ASE Mail Service name.

5 - edit /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf.  
    5.1 - Verify that the DW macro has the ASE hostname
          (DWase.mail.service.name).
    5.2 - Look for a line that's "S0".  Add the following three
          lines after the "S0" line.

R@      $n			Explicitly define mailer daemaon
R$-     $1<@$W>			Send local user mail to [email protected] 
R$*     $#smtpr $@$W $:$1	Send everything to the ASE mail server

          WARNING! These "R" Rules each consist of three parts seperated
                   with tabs.  Do not use space or things wont work.
                   i.e.   "R$*<TAB>$#smtpr $@$W $:$1<TAB>Comment field"


6 - The ase start script should contain the following:

if [ -f /usr/sbin/sendmail.netscape ]; then
  rm -f /usr/sbin/sendmail
  ln -s sendmail.netscape /usr/sbin/sendmail
fi
/usr/ns-home/bin/mail/server/etc/init.NscpMail start

7 - The ase stop script should contain the following in the RUNNING
    section:

/usr/ns-home/bin/mail/server/etc/init.NscpMail stop

    # and the following after the esac line:

if [ -h /usr/sbin/sendmail.netscape -a \
     -f /usr/sbin/sendmail.D-UNIX ]; then
  rm -f /usr/sbin/sendmail
  ln -s sendmail.D-UNIX /usr/sbin/sendmail
fi

8 - Make sure you remove /sbin/rc3.d/S??sendmail so sendmail is not
    started at system startup.

Setting up Netscape News for ASE fail over

1. Install Netscape News on all ASE servers.

2. Configure the basic news service on all ASE servers

3. On the reference server, copy the following directories and their 
contents to ns-home/... on the ASE disk:
   ns-home/bin/news 
   ns-home/authdb/default 
   ns-home/admserv/news* 
   ns-home/news* 

4. link the above directories to the master copy on the ASE disk on 
all ASE servers. 

5. invoke ns-home/news-*/start from the ASE start action script

6. invoke ns-home/news-*/stop from the ASE stop action script in the 
RUNNING section

NOTE: Substitute the name of your news service for the * in steps 3, 
5 and 6

Setting up Netscape Proxy Service for ASE fail over

1. Install Netscape Proxy Server  on all ASE servers.
   NOTE: Make sure any existing Netscape ASE services are
   currently being supplied by the server when installing.

2. Configure the basic proxy service on one ASE server

3. On this server, copy the following directories and their
   contents to ns-home/ on the ASE disk:
   � ns-home/bin/proxy 
   � ns-home/admserv/proxy-* 
   � ns-home/proxy-* 
   � ns-home/cache

4. link the above directories to the master copy on the ASE disk on all ASE servers. 

5. invoke ns-home/proxy-*/start from the ASE start action script

6. invoke ns-home/proxy-*/stop from the ASE stop action script in the RUNNING section

NOTE: Substitute the name of your proxy service for the *

Setting up Netscape Directory Service for ASE fail over

1. Install Netscape Directory Server  on all ASE servers.
   NOTE: Make sure any existing Netscape ASE services are
   currently being supplied by the server when installing.

2. Configure the basic directory service on one ASE server

3. On this server, copy the following directories and their
   contents to ns-home/ on the ASE disk:
   � ns-home/bin/slapd 
   � ns-home/admserv/slapd-* 
   � ns-home/slapd-*
   � ns-home/httpacl

4. link the above directories to the master copy on the ASE disk on all ASE servers. 

5. invoke ns-home/slapd-*/start from the ASE start action script

6. invoke ns-home/slapd-*/stop from the ASE stop action script in the RUNNING section

NOTE: Substitute the name of your slapd service for the *

The URL for the ASE application notes for Netscape Servers can be 
reached at:

http://www.digital.com/internet/document/ias/index.html