Figure 10-1 through Figure 10-7 show a sample PMDF-LAN configuration using the web-based PMDF-LAN configuration utility. Example 10-1 shows the corresponding sample checklist file. The sample EXAMPLE.COM site is assumed to be as shown in Figure 4-1, with the addition also of GroupWise (WPO) users.

For this example, PMDF will simply read and write files directly from and to an OpenVMS disk. These files would then either need to be made accessible to the PC side, via file serving software for the OpenVMS side, or actually moved back and forth from someplace accessible from the PC side. In particular, for this example the directory D0:[PMDFCC] is assumed to be the directory to which PMDF should write files destined for transfer to the cc:Mail postoffice system, and in which PMDF can expect to find files transfered from the cc:Mail postoffice system.

If EXAMPLE.COM is using file server software such as Interconnections, Inc.'s Leverage for NetWare, Hewlett-Packard Corporation's PathWorks, or FTP Software, Inc.'s PC/TCP with Interdrive, to allow the PC mail systems to store their message files directly on an OpenVMS disk, then it is most convenient to have PMDF read and write its files to the same directories where the PC mail systems expect to see them, so that no physical move of the files is necessary. For instance, suppose the WordPerfect Office (GroupWise) files are stored on the OpenVMS directory D0:[PMDFWPO], mapped using the file server software to the N: drive from the PC point of view. Then, e.g., from the PMDF side, the OpenVMS specification of D0:[PMDFWPO.WPDOMAIN.WPGATE.API40.API_IN] is equivalent to the PC side specification of N:/WPDOMAIN/WPGATE/API40/API_IN/. Figure 10-4 shows using file specifications which would lend themselves to this sort of mapping. If, on the other hand, the files are going to be moved in any case, then the file specification from the PMDF side need follow no particular convention.

Remember that the values in these samples are for purposes of example only. Be sure to use the values appropriate for your system when you perform the actual configuration.