Defining a NetBIOS LANA number for a Notes network port

To run NetBIOS on a server, after you complete the Server Setup program, you must determine the NetBIOS LANA number to which the Notes® network port will be bound. The NetBIOS LANA number is a logical number that represents a NetBIOS transport protocol stack on a NIC. You must know which transport protocol Notes workstations and other Domino® servers are using for NetBIOS within your workgroup or company.

About this task

If the computer running the Domino server has more than one NIC running the same protocol stack, you must define a different NetBIOS LANA number for each Notes network port for NetBIOS.

NetBIOS systems using the same transport protocol should be in the same Notes named network. If you create Connection documents on the server, the LAN port you select must also be for the same transport protocol.

Procedure

  1. From the Domino Administrator or Web Administrator, click the server for which you want to define a LANA number.
  2. Click the Configuration tab.
  3. Do one of these:
    • From the Domino Administrator's Tools pane, select Server > Setup Ports.
    • From the Web Administrator's Port tool, select Setup.
  4. Select the portname port, where portname is the name of the NetBIOS port for which you are defining a LANA number.
  5. Click Portname Options, and select Manual.
  6. Enter the correct LANA number.
  7. Click OK.

To find the LANA number for a NetBIOS protocol on a Windows XP or 2000 system

About this task

A Microsoft™ Windows™ XP or 2000 system does not have a direct means to see the LANA associations. For Windows XP or 2000 systems you can either review the system's registry bindings or use a Microsoft tool called LANACFG to see and change the LANA number assignments.

The following is an example of the tool's output from a Windows 2000 server. 

lanacfg [options]
showlanapaths - Show bind paths and component descriptions for each exported lana
setlananumber - Change the lana number of a bind path
rewritelanainfo - Verify and write out lana info to the registry
showlanadiag - Show lana diagnostic info

From the DOS prompt, enter

C:\>lanacfg showlanapaths

You see the following:

Lana:   4
-->NetBEUI Protocol-->3Com EtherLink III ISA (3C509/3C509b) in Legacy mode
Lana:   7
-->NetBEUI Protocol-->WAN Miniport (NetBEUI, Dial Out)
Lana:   3
-->NWLink NetBIOS
Lana:   0
-->WINS Client(TCP/IP) Protocol-->Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)-->3Com EtherLink III ISA (3C509/3C509b) in Legacy mode