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From: The ShagoofaMeister <raj@rajsys.lonestar.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: novell netware for OS/2 2.0, multiple VDMs
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 10:49:50 CDT
Organization: RB Enterprises: The Shagoofa Project!

Hi, all!
        We are trying to run the netware requester for OS/2, and are
        interested in running multiple DOS/windows apps from the network,
         ie, loading netbios in different VDMs. The manual says that there
         can be only one netbios session per OS/2 machine.
         Is there any way to get around it?

        Please reply by e-mail if possible!

thanks very much!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: lewis@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Lewis Getschel)
Subject: Netware requester needed, From where??
Summary: Is the Netware requester available with FTP
Keywords:  Novell OS2 interface
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 16:13:54 GMT

I just got my OS2 copy from IBM last week (took 10 weeks to get me my
upgrade copy). I found that there is a Netware Requester needed to access
my Novell LAN (2.15A). Since Novell wants $35.00 (US) for the 3 disks, It
sounds as if it is really a 'nusance' charge (meaning that they want you
to get it from elsewhere). IF this is so, can they be FTP'd from
somewhere? Or can the disks be copied for others? Can I get a copy from
someone? 
		Thanks for your help in this matter.



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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: chan@holo.iitsg.nrc.ca (Les Chan)
Subject: vt100 bug with tcp 1.2.1 ?
Reply-To: chan@holo.iitsg.nrc.ca (Les Chan)
Organization: NRC
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 22:05:29 GMT



We have a problem with the vt100 program that comes with
the ibm tcp 1.2.1.  When we connect to a Silicon graphics machine
an then do a control-c (to kill some job), the terminal 
appears to stop responding to any keystrokes.
Further investigation, by turning on the hex display, shows that
the correct responses are sent and received. And the link is still
actually alive but the display does not change.
Telnet sessions work, but I don't want to use it because it
hogs too much of the processor.  And the SGI does not know about vt200
type terminals.
Anyone else have this problem with SGI machines? If so,
do you have a cure?


Les Chan
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: digiuser@endor.byu.edu (Robert Perkins)
Subject: Re: Problem with OS/2 2.0 and NetWare Requester 2.0 VSHELL.SYS
Reply-To: Rob_Perkins@byu.edu
Organization: Brigham Young University -- Mathematics Department
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 07:56:10 GMT

In article <1992Jul18.234803.27315@udel.edu> pyrros@braindamaged.cis.udel.edu  
(Christos T. Pyrros) writes:
> 
> I installed the NetWare Requester for OS/2 2.0 version 2.0,
> but when I reboot I get the following error after all the other
> NetWare drivers load:
> 
> SYS1201:  The device driver "C:\NETWARE\VSHELL.SYS" specified in the
> DEVICE command on line 77 of the CONFIG.SYS file was not installed.
> 
> Line 77 is ignored.
> 
> Press Enter to continue.
> 
> 
> I tried reinstalling the Requester twice, to no avail.
> 
> Also, now my DOS sessions don't work.  When I try to run a DOS session,
> it says:
> 
> The system detected an internal processing error at location &9f2c:0508.
> SYS2240: Dos Krnl: Block device drivers are not permitted.
> 
> 
> Help!
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris

Did you remember to install support for DOS/Windows? 
Silly question, but it's actually easy to miss.
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From: gt0297a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tim Drury)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: How to read the books on TCP/IP 1.2.1 Softcopy-4 Manuals diskette?
Date: 22 Jul 92 13:53:59 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In <1992Jul21.200616.18290@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

>In article <1992Jul21.145515.2281@ichips.intel.com> jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.) writes:
>>The title says it all.  How do I read these manuals.  I have expanded them
>>into book format, but how do I read book format?

>On OS/2, with Book Manager/2 (a separate product).

>I would like to see IBM release the softcopy TCP/IP manuals in .INF
>form (viewable with the VIEW command under OS/2) but so far it hasn't
>happened.

i got 1.2.1 before manuals were printed and i wanted to read these files
so that i could get 1.2.1 running properly.  believe me, they are not
worth reading - correct that - they are not worth reading with 
BookManager/2.  its a horrible interface since you can only see about 30
or so lines and you can only print what you can see on the screen.  there
was no way to print the whole thing or even a section.
i've gotten by so far with only reading it once regarding FSTAB files.  i
wrote on my os/2 registration card that i wanted someone to send me manuals
for tcp/ip 1.2.1 and in two weeks i received a call telling me how to
send in my 1.2 license for a full 1.2.1 upgrade.

i didnt realize people actually read registration cards.  score one for
the new ibm.

-tim drury
tdrury@calsun.gatech.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: yktnews@watson.ibm.com
Subject: Re: NFS deamon trap D in tar
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:05:59 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

In  <ignacij.712354787@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu>  ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal) writes:
> Below is the setup in which tar on the Sun was tring to back up 
> the OS/2 files.
> 
> 486/33 with 16 M, OS/2 2.0 GA, IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1
> NFSD was started by starting PORTMAP and NFSD with no parameters
> 
> Sun SS1, SunOS 4.1.1, mount line:
> misz:c:/ /home/ignacij/os2c nfs rw,intr,bg,wsize=4096,rsize=4096 0 0
> 
> 
> tar from PC to Sun was started by:
> tar cvf backup os2c
> 
> After copying about 20 files, NFSD quit, printing trap 000d. There was
> no damage to any window. 
> 
> Being unsuccessful, I tried to use rcopy from the PC. It eventually succeded,
> but its pattern of operation was very erratic: 5-20 seconds of seemingly
> high speed copying, followed by a 5-20 s standstill. During that standstill,
> vt100 screen appeared frozen.
> 
> I needed to back up my files to transfer files from FAT to HPFS. Perhaps I  
> should have used xcopy from the PC? 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ignacy Misztal                  E-mail: ignacy@uiuc.edu
> University of Illinois          Phone: (217) 244-3164
> 1207 W. Gregory Dr.
> Urbana, IL 61801
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: backman@ftp.com  (Larry Backman)
Subject: Re: NFS deamon trap D in tar
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
Organization: FTP Software, Inc., Wakefield, MA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:31:01

In article <ignacij.712423602@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu> ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal) writes:

 >> >Someone told me to sync the time on the PC to the time on the Sun.  When I 
 >> >did this, the performance improved dramtically and there were no more 
 >> >spurts.
 >> 
 >> >Their reasoning was stale file  handles.  Experts?  Chime in.
 >> 
 >> 

Hmm...I'm not sure I understand this and I sure as hell understand NFS.
A "stale handle" is a file handle which the client has sent to the
server that no longer exists or is out of a server's cache.
When an NFS implemnetation creates a file via a CREATE RPC it sticks its
time/date concept in the files attributes; likewise when it writes to
it closes it; etc. it alters the attributes with a SETATTR call.  If the
time in the attributes associated with a handle was off perhaps the
handle/attributes would get flushed from the NFS server's cache but it
certainly should not be a stale.

Just because I didn't want to get embarassed I looked up stale handles:
	"NFSERR_STALE

	the "fhandle" given in the arguments is invalid.  That is, the
	file referred to by that file handle no longer exists, or
	access to it has been revoked".

Back when I figured out the zen of stale handles I would typically see
them from an editor that did the classic:
	1. create 	-> tmpfile
	2. rename	file.x -> file.xyz
	3. delete 	file.x
	4. rename tmpfile -> file.x.

using file.x's old handle (from #2) in # 4 will generate a stale handle.

Me thinks there is more to your problem that goes beyond setting the
time and walking away.  Its going to bite you later....

 >> How do you sync the time on the PC? By simply setting time? To 
 >> a second, minute?

Using Network time protocol against a time server.  We provide a setclock
program; I'm sure IBM does the same.


Larry Backman
FTP Software
From: drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: IBM X-server
Date: 31 Jul 92 06:38:10 GMT
Organization: IBM Almaden Research Center

I'm neither an author or maintainer of "the IBM X-server", but if you want
to find them you might be more specific.  Do you mean the X server for
AIX V3, AIX PS/2, or OS/2 2.0?


Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
Internet:  drake@almaden.ibm.com    BITNET:  DRAKE at ALMADEN
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal)
Subject: Re: NFS deamon trap D in tar
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:58:58 GMT

yktnews@watson.ibm.com writes:

>Ignacy,

>    It seems my previous reply was lost, only the reference part was posted
>to the news group. Try to mount with rsize=1024,wsize=1024 options.

>    I tested with these option on our AIX 3.1.6 system. I used the tar command
>    backed up my D drive, OS/2 2.0 system, with 49 MB of size successfully.
>    The syntax I used: /u/gao>tar -cf os2d.tar ~gao/tmp,  where the tmp
>    directory is the mount point of my OS/2 d drive.

>    Please let me if this helps.

>Regards,

>KeJia
>IBM Watson Research
>gao@watson.ibm.com

What about the performance issues at (r,w)size of 1024? At 4096, the hard disk
on the Sun is vey busy, much less than with FTP or RCOPY, which transfer
at higher rates.
Ignacy
From: mss2696@tamsun.tamu.edu (Mark Saum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: Including OS/2 in a small work-group
Date: 26 Jul 92 16:46:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station

In article <1992Jul26.070826.6464@weyrich.UUCP> tnet.com!weyrich!orville writes:
>What I really want is Novell NetWare Lite for OS/2 or else a much cheaper
>source for TCP/IP and NFS for DOS/Windows [I want DOS nodes to be able to
>"publish" network volumes as well as "mount" them.]
>
>Does anyone have any idea of a way that I can get this functionality at a
>reasonable cost?
>
>NWLITE in a DOS box, but I can't find the file "netwlsrv.zoo" on the
>FTP server that I was told to look on [hobbes] -- I think that they just 
>reorganized their directory structure. Anyone know where to get this 
>patch?
>
>

The patch for novell lite is only for the server portion running under a
VDM.  Using a vmdisk'd DOS 5/dr6 you should have no problem.  I'm running
netware lite under a dos box this way with OS/2 b/c I get an IMPRESSIVE
increase in network performance due to HPFS and lazy writes.

Mark

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From: jhopkins@cbacc.cba.uga.edu (John Hopkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: IBMToken packet driver
Date: 23 Jul 92 18:49:20 GMT
Organization: Terry College of Business, University of Georgia

In article <rkohlbus.2@dining.umd.edu> rkohlbus@dining.umd.edu (Robert Kohlbus) writes:

>        Ok, I'm currently on an IBM Token ring network that has been broken 
>and connected to the internet.  Now that I have update my machine to OS/2 and
>using Novell's Lan Requester for OS/2v2.0 my IBMToken packet driver no 
>longer works because the TRA adapter files are not being loaded.  Does 
>anyone have a suggestion on a new Packet driver that would fix my problem?

Man, have you ever bitten off a chunk here!!  If you find a way to get this 
working, I would sure like to know what it is, but I fear that you will not. 
I only know of one way to use packet-driver-expecting software even under 
DOS, and that is to use IBMTOKEN, which I loathe!!!!  Since IBMTOKEN won't 
work under OS/2, I really think we are both out of luck.

I have been looking at other solutions, but haven't found one yet.  I can't 
get IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1 and the NetWare Requester to work together, and
Novell's LAN Workplace For OS/2 is still a ways off.  For the time being, I 
dual-boot back to DOS once a day for TCP/IP access.  Ugh!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: sasdxk@skyhawk.unx.sas.com (Dave Kolb)
Subject: NETBIOS from/to VM possible? PVM/PC?
Originator: sasdxk@skyhawk.unx.sas.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:17:02 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Keywords: NETBIOS PVM/PC


Has anyone seen any IBM NETBIOS implementations from VM or MVS?

Or know what "PVM/PC" is?

Or what the "PSCA device driver" for PVM is?

Does this product(?) offer NETBIOS PC to Mainframe communications?

Thanks,

-- 
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SAS Campus Drive - J206       Phone:      (919) 677-8000 x6827
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From: pw2@prism.gatech.EDU (WEST, PHILIP D)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: LaMail bugs?
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:52:07 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In <1992Jul29.174723.27319@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> gkm@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (gary.k.mc nees) writes:

>I have LaMail 2.2 and I think there is a bug in the
>Folders Arrange Icons command. When I use this command
>all the icons are placed on top of each other at the
>bottom left of the window.  Anybody else notice this
>behavior?

>Gary McNees gkm@corvette.ho.att.com

I have this problem also.  In addition, sometimes when I am replying to a
note, the 'SEND' option is not available from the pull down menu.  Fortunately,
the F5 key does the trick.  Also when I use the spell checker, the dialog
box always pops up on top of the mispelled word.

As a final quesiton, does anyone understand when and why mail goes into
the mail queue?  Clearly, it gets in there when an address is wrong, but
how can you monitor what is in there?  As far as I can tell, you get one
chance to fix the address, and then you note goes off to never never land--
possibly causing your sendmail.err file to get huge.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: digiuser@endor.byu.edu (Robert Perkins)
Subject: Re: Thinking of getting TCP/IP 1.2.1, how's NE2000 support?
Reply-To: Rob_Perkins@byu.edu
Organization: Brigham Young University -- Mathematics Department
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 07:57:20 GMT

In article <4926@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> daves@vtucs.cc.vt.edu (Dave Sisson) writes:
> 
>      I am currently using OS/2's TCP 1.2 with the NE2000 drivers I nabbed
> with anonymous FTP from somewhere.  I haven't noticed any problems.

Where can these drivers be found?  Where is the ftp site?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: ricko@ee.uts.edu.au (Rick Jelliffe)
Subject: TXP/IP + X + Tseng = freezies; 2 other Qs; 2 hints
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 10:25:07 GMT

Can anyone help with this?

Hardware: 486/SX, 8 Meg RAM, TsengLabs MegeEVA card run SVGA 1024/7xx/256
SMC (WD) Ethercard PLus

Software: OS/2 v2.0 (+spool, hpfs, rexx, blackicon, fixkernl patches),
Orchid VGA screen drivers, IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1 + Xserver + NFS.

Problem #1: when I have several windows open, and try to move one, the
screen freezes. This is not repeatable: it has happened so far when moving
a PMFTP window, when moving a directory window, and when exiting a
Word for Windows 2 session, and twice when attempting to set up
the WPS printing with lpr. The FTP transfer finished, but I could't telnet into
it to try to restart WPS or kill off the blocking process. 

Problem #2: I've read that W4W 2 has a needed bug fix, to work with OS/2 v2.0.
Microsoft are refusing to supply the fix unless I can state exactly what the
problem is I need fixing (even though we buy hundreds of licenses from 
them!!). Could someone give me a good story to tell them: I'm sick of
begging! Also, I have also read that some revised version of OS/2 is needed
(sorry if this is old ground): do I have to call IBM, or will applying the 
patches from Hobbes give me the same result?

Problem #3: talk and talkd do not answer from Suns. Has anyone got this going?

Problem #3: When LaMail attempts to open a letter (new or existing) it opens
an advanced editor session: but this is tiny, and the characters write on the
wrong part of the screen! The card is obviously being driven wrong, but 
LaMail is also opening up a stupid-sized window in the firstplace. Any
fixes?

Hint #1: When setting up TCP/IP using ICAT, I had to have two
default routes: one of the TCP/IP address of the PC & metric 0,
and the other with the IP address of our (only) gateway, and a metric 1.
This is different from the settings our Suns and cutcp PCs like.

Hint #2: IBM ICAT often will store settings into CONFIG.SYS after
converting them to uppercase. This is not a good idea! It is 
especially stupid for passwords, usernames, hostnames. If you
think you've done everything fine, and it still doesn't work, 
edit CONFIG.SYS, or \TCPIP\ETC\HOSTS or whatever, to put in
lowercase entries if required. 

-ricko

Rick Jelliffe
Research Computing Centre
Electrical Engineering
University of Technology, Sydney
From: backman@ftp.com (Larry Backman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: IBM X-server
Date: 30 Jul 92 13:44:48 GMT
Organization: FTP Software, Inc., Wakefield, MA
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP

Could one of the authors or maintainers of this product please
contact me via E-mail.  I have some questions about the interface
it uses.


Larry Backman
FTP Software
backman@ftp.com
617-224-6292
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From: laird@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Changing Desktop for Different Users (was Re: The NT file system)
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:00:16 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

As soon as LAN Server (to replace LAN Manager) comes in, I'm switching
my dept's network to OS/2 2.0 (from 1.3).  Before, I used "newini" as
part of each user's login to set the "desktop" up for that individual.

I just sold a single user machine with 2.0 installed, and it seems to me
that "newini" may not hack it.  Workplace Shell seems tightly coupled to
the file system.

Is there a good (clean) way to give each person a personalized WPS at
whatever workstation they log onto?  This should (ideally) include print
job settings, background, colors, mouse prefs, and _folders_.  Folders
are definitely the most important - I don't want people to even know
about some of the things that I need on my desktop.  (Complexity ->
Confusion)

Thanks for the help!

--kyler
From: jon@bai.baylis.COM (Jon Granrose)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: LMOS22.zip and TCPIP
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 21:28:13 GMT
Organization: Baylis Automation Inc. (Scotts Valley, CA)


Howdy, y'all

I just downloaded LMOS22.zip, the new redirector for MS Lan Manager 2.1
for OS/2 2.0GA, from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

It works great for NetBeui, gives all the network devices, etc. but
doesn't work for TCPIP.  The problem lies in the tcpdrv.os2 even though
it is supposedly fixed since it is in the lmos22.zip file.  Basically, the
system chokes in the config.sys file and doesn't think it's a driver and
keeps lan manager from running.

Has anyone got this running with TCPIP yet?  We need it so we can do our
development on our Unix systems.  Otherwise, we have to stick to OS/2
1.3 until MS gets this fixed.  I'm wide open for suggestions.

Thanks.

Jon
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: blake@nevada.edu (Rawlin Blake)
Subject: Re: odi in dos session
Organization: University of Nevada System Computing Services
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 23:18:44 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.190214.9887@trentu.ca> xtpw@trentu.ca (Peter Wood) writes:
>From: xtpw@trentu.ca (Peter Wood)

>In article <blake.41.711914721@nevada.edu> blake@nevada.edu (Rawlin Blake) writes:

>[stuff about dos version for netx.com used with requestor deleted]
>>That is because the default setting in DOS_VERSION for NETX.COM is 4.00. I 
>>have changed mine to 5.00 because the novell seems to work better with that 
>>setting. 
>>

>How're you doing this ? Does this mean that you switched to a VDM built
>using DOS 5.0 ? Or is there a virtual netx.com that supports DOS 5.0 out
>there somewhere ?
>Thanks,
>Pete

No, I'm using a regular DOS session. The setting is in open, settings, 
session, DOS session, DOS_VERSION. I'm using netx.com version 3.26.

---
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No news is bad newsreader :-)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: gkm@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (gary.k.mc nees)
Subject: Re: LaMail bugs?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:47:23 GMT

I have LaMail 2.2 and I think there is a bug in the
Folders Arrange Icons command. When I use this command
all the icons are placed on top of each other at the
bottom left of the window.  Anybody else notice this
behavior?

Gary McNees gkm@corvette.ho.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking