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From:         murphy@PCMAIL.SCHEV.EDU
Subject:      ncsa & Token Ring

Hello,
     I am currently working on a problem using the NCSA shim (IBMTOKEN.COM)
and the BYU IPX shell for packet drivers.  I am trying to put together an
inexpensive link between our Token-Ring(Netware 3.11) network and our
Ethernet(Unix) network through an IP router.  I tried a suggestion from the
NOVELL-list and ran into the problem of "no packet driver found" when using
the "IBM LAN Support Program" (WSGEN) configuration. The IBM LAN SUP config
does not seem to support the shared packet driver feature of the BYU "Packet
Driver" configuration. When using the NCSA and BYU combination I run into the
problem of not finding any Novell servers. I understand that the NCSA packet
driver is using the Ethernet_II Frame Type and Novell expects 802.3 Frames
I have also read that there is a version of the packet drivers that
incorporates a switch '-n' when loading the NCSA packet driver to use 802.3
Frame Types.  This phantom version ( with the '-n' switch) may or may not
include this option for the "IBMTOKEN.COM" packet driver.  I have not been
successful in locating this version of the packet drivers.  Can anyone give
me a clue as to where I can find this packet driver?
                              Thanks for any help!



MICHAEL B. MURPHY
MURPHY@pcmail.Schev.EDU
COUNCIL OF HIGHER EDUCATION
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
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From:         Tina Moss <tmoss@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Watchdog time out

On Sat, 3 Oct 1992, Joe Doupnik wrote:

> >     Is there any way to disable the "connection watchdog" in NW 3.11?  If a
> >workstation is 'inactive' for a specified period of time, the "watchdog" will
> >break the connection.  This is rather irritating.  I have set the options
> >that effect the watchdog to their upper limits, but this still only allows a
> >connection to be idle for about 17.8 hours before clearing the connection.
> >Therefore, over the weekend, all of my print servers are kicked off the net.
> >HELP!
> >      Any information is greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
> >Bryan W. Peterson
> >Hematology-Oncology Division
> >University of Utah Medical Center
> >Salt Lake City, Utah  84132
> >
> >Internet: bwp@hemonc1.med.utah.edu
> -------------
>         I think you have some serious comms problems. The watchdog timer
> sends a NW-ping packet to the workstation and the shell replies. This has
> nothing to do with user activity on the PC or to the file server; instead
> this is a simple connectivity test. When about 5 or so watchdog packets in
> a row are dropped the server declares the station to be deceased and it
> performs a logout of the station. Thus I suspect your PCs are dropping those
> packets, a lot.
>         Joe D.

We had problems with watchdog time outs for connections to servers
elsewhere on the campus backbone.  We use IPTUNNEL to access these
servers.  The connection was maintained only as long as there was actual
PC user activity to the remote server.  i.e. the watchdog process failed
to keep connections alive.

Our cure was to maximize the parameters as has been done here.  User
connections really are dead if they don't do anything for 17+ hours.
Fortunately, our print server does not have to be attached to the remote
server.
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From:         Ray Todd Stevens <RAY@SAFETY.NWSCC.SEA06.NAVY.MIL>
Subject:      help getdefaultcapture

I am trying to use the get default capture call to change the
printer setup string.  I have the call  workgin, but it appears to be
giving me slightly dumb data.  Specifically the printersetupstring
field is supposed to return a pointer the a zero terminated string
that contains the string.  The problem is that it is returning a
pointer that is 4 bytes before the string.

Is anyone using this call for this (or a related purpose)?

Is this how it is supposed to work?

Am I doing something wrong?

Ray Todd Stevens
Contractor
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From:         SJBUSH@LIFE.UAMS.EDU
Subject:      Re: Win 3.1 and printing options

We were interested in the same question and once we all put our heads
together we determined that there was no way to do this from Novell, but
if anyone has any other ideas I would be interested also.

Sarah Bush
Consultant, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
SJBUSH@life.uams.edu
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 08:22:44 EDT
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From:         Doug Teeter <TEETER@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA>
Subject:      re: pc based bootp server

Hi,

 Last week someone mentioned that they had written a bootp server that lets
you specify a range of addresses.  Would it be possible to have it put on
an ftp site.  I am in dire need of such a program.

Many thanks.

Doug Teeter
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From:         Rich Brown <rbrown@DIJKSTRA.UNIVNORTHCO.EDU>
Subject: Re: pserver

	hi
	 we didn't used the PServer efficiently.we setup pserver in pconsole
	then we tried to execute pserver but we get the folowing messages
	   there are no enough spx connection.
	  Secondly in our nw386 we have three group and we have three
	 laser printer.I want to connect one printer for each group.How
	  should describe these operations in login scripts ????

	   Yusuf  Kucuk
	  EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY
	   COMPUTER CENTER
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Yusuf,

I'm not sure about your pserver problem, but the easiest way to assign
a printer to a group in the login script is to use the command

if member of group "groupname" then ......

and set up a capture command for each printer's queue in each if..then
statement.
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From:         field@BCL.SANTAROSA.EDU

signoff novell



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Jay Field
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Santa Rosa Junior College

field@bcl.santarosa.edu
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From:         "(Saskia Lund)" <saskia@INFO.BERKELEY.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Error Receiving from network

> From: CACHO%ITESO.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Error Receiving from network
> To: Multiple recipients of list NOVELL <NOVELL%SUVM.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU>
>
> >
> > Approximately 2% of the packets on my networks have CRC's.
> > After transmitting around 3 million packets I have had
> > No ECB Available Count:                 18
> > Send Packet Miscellaneous Errors:      330
> > Send Packet Retry Count:               297
> > Transmit Retry Failures:                33
> > Number of resets to nic:                56
> > Number of Carrier Sense lost Errors:   333
> > Number of Interrupts fired by adapter: 241
> >
> > The first three counters are described in the SysAdmin manual,
> > and I have a reasonable understanding of them, except:
> > 1)  How high can these numbers be before they are a problem?
>
>   in the case of Send Packet Retry Count:, it is a problem if
> it begins to increase in ones increments, instead of 99 multiples
> your number is 13 times 99, so i will say it's okay.
>   When it begins this kind of behavior we unload the cards, load
> them again, and everything is okay again.
>
> > 2)  How can I find out what the Miscellaneous Errors are?
> > The last four counters are not documented, that I can find
> > and I would like to know what they are.
> >
	Three NE3200 custom statistics are described in Appendix A
of NW 3.11 System Administration, p 468:  Transmit Retry Failure, No Nic
Board Receive Buffers, and Number of Resets to Nic.   I think the Ethernet
supplements (or the other supplements as appropriate) describes others.

	For reference, all of my lan driver error counters show 0, except
resets to nic which is approx. 24,000 in 50 days of uptime.  The description
of this counter says, "Under normal conditions, more of these errors should
occur durrin iddle time than when the driver is busy.  For this counter to warn
you of potential hardware problems, you must receive thousands of these
errors when the network is busy."

Ok, I'm getting thousands of errors but, at least when I can check, not
during busy times.  We do sometimes experience the ne3200 amnesia problem:
server thinks it is fine, shows folks logged in with open files, but users
are disconnected.

Are there other things I can check?

> > - Aldon Hynes
> > ubs1@ATTMAIL.COM
> >
>
>
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>   Guadalajara, Mexico.
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Subject: Re: mackermit
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:52:00 GMT
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try ftp'ing from sumex-aim.stanford.edu
They usually have the latest versions of kermit in the info-mac
subdirectory, in the comm subdirectory.
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From:         RBOYER2 <rboyer2@IUS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: PS/2 95 with more than 16MB RAM

          Neat! neither can I (but that's okay.)  It is placed in the
          STARTUP.NCF file (here is a copy of mine).

load PS2SCSI slot=1
set Maximum Physical Receive Packet Size=4202
set Minimum Packet Receive Buffers=200
set Reserved Buffers Below 16 Meg=200
load a:mac

          I think it is one of those "oh yea, didn't you know about
          that one?" kind of parameter :->.  HTH! - Rick

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      :   I can't seem to find "set reserved buffers below . . ." in
      :   the red books anywhere.  Can you provide a reference??
      :   Thanks.
      :
      :   Jim Aagaard
      :   Northwestern University Library
      :   aagaard@nwu.edu
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From:         JAY SISSOM <JSISSOM@INDYCMS.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Novlib directories above 10
              6 Oct 1992 12:43:00 GMT from <GRG1678@VAX2.QUEENS- BELFAST.AC.UK>

Is there any legal reason why someone other than Novell could not maintain
an FTP site with the non-Novell files from Compuserve?  It would be nice
if they were all in the same place.  I know splicer has most of them, but
a lot of people (especially non-USA people) would like files that are
on Compuserve, but not on splicer.

I might be able to provide a place for these files if it was legal.

Thanks
Jay Sissom
Indiana University Department of Medicine
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From:         MSJLE@ECNUXA.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Volume SYS: directory entries!

In bit.listserv.novell you write:


> ************************************************************************

> Request:
>        Is there any way of modifying the number of DIRECTORY ENTRIES
>        on the SYS volume of a 2.2 Netware Server?

Only by regenning the server.  This is a pain, but the only way to do
it.  I had to do that last year.

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From:         Martin McNicholas <CC79@IONA.BITNET>
Subject:      Source routing on IBM Token-ring

You must load the VAP for source routing on a 2.x server, not the
NLM which is only for 3.x.  It is true that a server with source
routing loaded must exist on the current ring in order to see across
a bridge.  The source routed server must also be your currently
defaulted server.  If your default server is not source routed, you
will only see the servers on the ring you are physically attached to.

Martin McNicholas
Iona College
Network Administrator
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From:         CTRIBBET@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU
Subject:      Ultra Stor phone #

Would someone give me a phone number and/or e-mail address for

ULTRA STOR (Hard disk controllers)



Cornell Tribbet
Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. at Indpls.
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Could you please remove Michael Winkler at dephinus from this list,
as he is no longer at this address.

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From:         Steve Parsons <swp@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject:      IP Tunnel drops out

We have had a IP tunnel running to another 3.11 server on campus for
several months without any problems. The tunnel was running through a
3Com 3c505 card that had IP and Appletalk bound to ethernet_II packets
and IPX bound to 802.3 packets.

We switched IPX to ethernet_II packets upon request from others on
campus and started having problems. The IP Tunnel connection drops
off at random now (of course only at the worst possible times) and our
server is generating 'incomplete packet received' errors consistently
when users on the network start up Windows 3.1.

The workstations are running the ODI drivers that came with Windows 3.1.
I have switched back to 802.3 packets and all is well again. I would like
to switch us back to IPX over ethernet_II packets.

Thanks to anyone who can help on this.

Steve Parsons
Univ of Washington, Seattle

swp@u.washington.edu
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Subject: Q. Executing PATH in the system login script
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On old netware's some sort of fix-path is necessary, but you may find
an easier solution in the MAP INSERT option for mapping your search
drives in the login script or wherever.  This retains you DOS PATH
directories and just "shoves them down" and puts the novell directories
in front.
You have:  PATH=C:\;C:\DOS;C:\123

add:       MAP INSERT S1:=server1\SYS:\PUBLIC

and get:   PATH=Z:.;C:\;C:\DOS;C:\123

Then when you logout, the Z:. which is the PUBLIC mapped S1, drops off
and you have left what you started with.
The caveat is that a verrry long PATH statement to start with will get too
long for DOS (128 bytes ???) and lose the rightmost end.
To save the drive and directory for restoring, make the following batch file:
Call it c:\PUSHD.BAT:
        @if '%1'=='X' prompt @$N:$_@CD $P
        @if '%1'=='' %COMSPEC% /C %0 X>C:\POPD.BAT
(yes, it's recursive)
Execute PUSHD before you login and execute POPD after you log out.
If you put in in the login script you have to put # in front of the %COMSPEC%
Since you invoke a second command interpreter, it is ok for pushd.bat as it
inherits the PATH along with the rest of the environment, but the popd has
to be issued directly and not executed by a second command interpreter.
I found this in an old magazine article that's long gone now.  I only wish
to be that clever!  Hope it's useful to someone.
Best wishes,
Dave
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Does there exist a listing of all of the files in the Nov/Lib
directories at Novell's Internet site? There are ten directories with
several hundred files in each, but no descriptions. Any info
appreicated.

Joey
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From: sgriffee@NYNEXST.COM ((Steve Griffee))
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Subject: Re: Weird printing problem - NW3.11
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:25:30 GMT
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              92 5:16 pm

>      I have three printers attached to two separate fileservers that
>  behave rather strangely at different times.  All may well be the same
>  problem wearing a slightly different mask.  Can anyone suggest a
>  possible solution?
>
>      I guess what is happening is that somehow part of the postscript
>  file gets garbled on the way to the printer, so that the printer
>  doesn't know it is postscript any more.  In the case of the non
>  postscript laser, some of the text gets garbled in the same way.  I
>  have tried a variety of printer cables and printer ports all with no
>  sucess.
>
I concur with your hunch about the postscript getting garbled.  I have several
suggestions of what direction to take in your bug hunting:

Is it possible the printers do not have enough memory to process the entire
postscript job (or it is marginal) and therefore just throw it away?

get out the Novell manual titled Print Server.  Check the sections about
printcon and printdef.  Try importing printer definitions (files ending with
.PDF) which come the closest to your printer types using Printdef.  Do the
makers of your printers provide PDF files for novell?  Most do these days.
The PDF files define the setup strings sent to the printer by the novell
ques before the actual data from your print job.

Watch out for file contents field in Printcon.  I always use
BYTE STREAM instead of TEXT to avoid allowing novell to get involved in
formatting what ever is sent to the ques.  Be aware that what you save in
printcon does not take effect until you issue a new capture command and your
changes only affect the user name you are currently logged in as.

These suggestions come from my own experience solving very similar problems
but with different hardware.

Good luck
Steve

The opinions above are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
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