Error in domino 6 start up

Receiving error messages upon start up of Domino 6 server on a Windows 2000 server. The error message makes reference to the Notes.ini file.

09/24/2003 12:26:35 PM Error on Listen function: NETBIOS unit/lana number specified in NOTES.INI is not valid on this system, or a network is not started

The error appears in groups of three lines every 10 seconds. I have disabled the following ports under Server → Current server document → Ports → Notes Network Ports:

LAN0ip

LAN1

Notes.ini file shows the following:

TCPIP=TCP, 0, 15, 0

SPX=NWSPX, 0, 15, 0

LAN0ip=NETBIOS, 0, 15, 0

LAN1=NETBIOS, 1, 15, 0

LAN2ipx=NETBIOS, 2, 15, 0

LAN3=NETBIOS, 3, 15, 0

LAN4=NETBIOS, 4, 15, 0

LAN5=NETBIOS, 5, 15, 0

LAN6=NETBIOS, 6, 15, 0

LAN7=NETBIOS, 7, 15, 0

LAN8=NETBIOS, 8, 15, 0

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TIA!

Subject: are you really using netbios?

Best guess, you want to change the (enabled) ‘Ports’ line in notes.ini from ‘Ports=LAN0ip,LAN1’ to ‘Ports=TCPIP’. At least one of your enabled ports refers to a LAN Adapter number that’s not defined in your Windows network properties, and probably doesn’t need to be. Most sites configure Domino servers to communicate exclusively over TCP/IP these days. Since your notes.ini shows that a TCP/IP port is already defined for Domino, you can quickly change the enabled port list.

I’d avoid editing notes.ini directly if you can; instead, use the ‘set config’ console command. Enter these two commands at the server console, one at a time, and that should straighten things out.

set config ports=tcpip

restart server

Subject: RE: are you really using netbios?

I used your suggested commands and it worked in solving my identical problem… thanks!