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CHAPTER 10
Creating Supplemental
Drivers Disks
The LAN Manager Setup program can install and configure network
device drivers that aren’t shipped with the LAN Manager package.
These drivers include protocol drivers (also known as protocols or
transports) and network adapter drivers (also known as NDI or media
access control drivers). The network device drivers to be installed must
be on their own supplemental drivers disk, which must have the proper
directory structure. The supplemental drivers disk must also contain
network information (NIF) and protocol information (XIF) files
required by the Setup program to install and configure the drivers.
Developers of third-party drivers for LAN Manager can find
instructions for creating a supplemental driver in the Network Drivers
Development Kit available from Microsoft.
This chapter shows you how to create a supplemental drivers disk that
you can use to install network device drivers on the computers on your
network, for those times when you need a driver for your network
adapter that is not supplied by LAN Manager, and you have purchased a
driver that is not in the proper format for LAN Manager installation.
Each of the following steps for creating a supplemental drivers disk is
covered in greater detail in the remainder of this chapter.
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