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From: 5692330@mcimail.com  (Robert Gammon)
Subject: Re: FOXPRO on OS/2 Lan Man
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:25:42 GMT

In article <1992Nov05.233315.3104@vpnet.chi.il.us> hb@vpnet.chi.il.us (hank barta) writes:

 >> 
 >> Hi folks,
 >> 
 >> I'd like to know if FOXPRO can use an OS/2 Lan Manager file
 >> server for its files? (Lan man does provide file server
 >> services doesn't it?) I would sure like to hear from someone
 >> who knows. (BTW, that's FOXPRO/Lan running on MS-DOS PC's
 >> using an OS/2 2.0 Lan Manager server.)
 >> 
 >> 
 >> thanks,
 >> hank (barta@pswin.chi.il.us)

Well, you seem to have some terms confused, but the answer is yes.
Microsoft Lan Manager runs on OS/2 1.3.  IBM Lan Server can run on
either OS/2 1.3 or OS/2 2.0.  The Lan edition implements file and
record locking so that multiple users can access the same database
and indexes.  The single user version has no provision for record
locking, so only one person at a time can access the database.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: dflint@unlv.edu (Michael Evans)
Subject: LANtastic TCP/IP, XENIX (EXELAN) and OS/2 
Organization: UNLV
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 20:53:00 GMT

The company I work for currently has the following set up:

	Five Windows machines which are being used for desktop
publishing.  They are networked to a XENIX machine using a software
package called PCInterface (Which uses TCP/IP to allow MS-DOS machines
to use a UNIX machine as a file server, as well as using the XENIX
machine's printers).  The XENIX machine is also used for accounting
software.

	What I would like to know is:

	Can I put a OS/2 machine on this network which would be able
to act as a server for the Windows machines if something happened to
the xenix machine?  Since PCInterface is designed specifically to work
with a unix machine, I would probably have to replace it with LANtasic
TCP/IP.  Would this work?  
	Basically, my main question is:  Does any one have experience
with getting OS/2, LANtastic (or another TCP/IP program for DOS), and
XENIX's EXELAN to work togethe, with both the OS/2 machine and the
XENIX machine being servers?

	As you can probably tell, I am new to networks (VERY new :-).
I would appreciate any help you can give.

Mike Evans -- dflint@unlv.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking,comp.protocols.misc
From: tom@piassun1.joanneum.ac.at (Tom Leitner)
Subject: Is there a "ONE TO MANY" protocol ?
Originator: tom@piassun1
Organization: Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 09:32:53 GMT

Hi,

For our application we'd need a protocol which supports "ONE TO MANY"
connections (on top of Ethernet). Is there something like that ? Perhaps
there is a nifty trick how it can be done with IP networks. What about
SNA in that respect.

I'd appreciate any comments either here or by e-mail to

Tom Leitner, tom@piassun1.joanneum.ac.at

Regards from Austria -- TOM

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking,comp.os.os2.misc
From: cheese@runx.oz.au (Mark Cheeseman)
Subject: Re: Lantastic and OS/2 2.0
Organization: Your Computer Magazine, Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 02:45:45 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.154105.6231@gw.wmich.edu> 32coulter@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>   Has anyone on the net had experience using Lantastic with OS/2?  I have
>been asked to find out if this will work for a small Peer to Peer LAN in
>an office with 3-6 computers.  Only one computer will have OS/2:  the rest
>are DOS.

Rumour has it that the OS/2 version of LANtastic is not very far away. Another
possibility (I haven't tried) is LANtastic's TCP/IP package, with TCP/IP on
the OS/2 machine.

Regards,
Mark


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Date: Friday, 6 Nov 1992 11:54:07 EST
From: Nick Laflamme <NLAFLAMM@vma.cc.nd.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Printing to network printer from BookMangler?

>We have no local printers on our OS/2 boxes, and print everything
>using lpd/lpr.  Is there any way to fake out things like BookMangler
>et. al. to print directly to this, rather than having to save to a
>file and then print?  (And in BM, that doesn't work either . . .)

Are you familiar with LPRMON?  It lets you print to a printer queue
as if you have a real printer defined and then snatches files from
the print queue and sends them with lpr to the real printer.  I
use it routinely with no problems.

LPRMON is available with IBM's TCP/IP; I don't know if other
implementations support it or not.

Hope this helps,
Nick
From: jon@bai.baylis.COM (Jon Granrose)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: rcp(C) for TCPIP 1.2.1
Date: 11 Nov 92 00:20:02 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Baylis Automation Inc. (Scotts Valley, CA)


Hello all,

I'd like to thank the people who responded to my request re:Lan Manager
and IBM TCPIP. I ended up just going with straight Lan Requester and TCPIP,
much easier... ;-)

However, I was mightily disappointed to discover that there was no rcp that
came with TCPIP 1.2.1.  Why is this?  I don't understand why there would be
an rsh but no rcp.  So I'm looking for an rcp for IBM's TCPIP 1.2.1.  If
anyone knows of one somewhere I'd appreciate hearing about it.  We depend 
on rcp for most of our file transfers right now.  I'd like to move over to
NFS but need to maintain the backwards compatibility for the present.

Any and all info appreciated.  Thanks.

-Jon
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: Peter Haight <psh1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Question on setting up TCP/IP 1.2.1
X-Xxdate: Fri, 6 Nov 92 16: 18:52 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: psh1@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:13:55 GMT


I just starting fooling around with OS/2 2.0 and I have gotten the TCP/IP
package for it. I'm used to DOS and packet drivers for the network stuff,
so basically all I want to do is set it up so that I can run something
like FTPPM and type in wuarchive.wustl.edu for a host and then get files
from wuarchive. The problem is that I don['t know how to tell OS/2 to
look up hosts at a Domain Name Server (DNS). How do I specify a DNS (and
a gateway, for that matter) so that I can use FTP and Telnet in the above
manner?

Please post here or email me at psh1@cornell.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: rohrernl@helix.nih.gov (Nathan Rohrer)
Subject: Re: Dell, EISA and Ethernet cards - problems!!!!
Organization: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:37:05 GMT

In article <92317.132155BHENDEL@ESTEC.BITNET> <BHENDEL@ESTEC.BITNET> writes:

>According to Microsoft, the current release of LAN Manager (2.1) does
>not work with OS/2 (2.0). They are working on a patch version (2.1a)
>scheduled for release in the US later this month.

LM 2.1a has already been released and does come with CLIENT support for OS/2 
2.0.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: DOCs for TCP/IP on PDK ROM?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 18:09:26 GMT

In article <1992Nov02.180652.10206@gremlin.muug.mb.ca> borger@gremlin.muug.mb.ca (James Borger) writes:
>Was there any documentation for TCP/IP included on the PDK CDROM?  If so,
>where is it?  I can't find it anywhere!

I don't have immediate access to it as I type, but it is definitely
there, in BOO (Book Reader) format.

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From: josephc@cco.caltech.edu (Joseph Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: TCP/IP works on my machine now!  Thank you net!
Date: 13 Nov 1992 09:40:17 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

I just wanted to say that my TCP/IP works now on my machine...  For
some reason, I must not have uninstalled a botched install attempt
completely...  After _throughouly_ taking out all remnants of the
previous install, and installing from scratch, the thing worked
fine... (I shouted a one big "WOW what the #$@%! it works!"  ;-) )

Much thanks to those who replied to me in the mail.  Your help
is greatly appreciated.



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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: assela@marcus.its.rpi.edu (A. Andre Asselin)
Subject: Re: Killing (IBM) NFS client after last UMOUNT: dangerous?
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 07:24:39 GMT

kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl) writes:

>In article <1992Nov04.191754.18135@ans.net>,
>db3l@ans.net (David Bolen) writes:

>>In article <341@zam103.zam.kfa-juelich.de> kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl) writes:
>>
>>>Is it safe to kill NFSC.EXE and the NFSBIOD.EXEs after the last UMOUNT?
>>>(If not, how can I simulate a Ctrl+C to the NFS Control Program window?)
>>
>>If you are using something like DosKillProcess to shut down the
>>processes, you won't exactly simulate a Ctrl-C (which NFSCTL uses to
>>shut down the BIODs itself and verify that all mounts have been done),
>>but you will still force NFSCTL to run it's exit handler, which takes
>>care of detaching from the IFS.

>I am using KillEm (from ftp-os2), which does use DosKillProcess.
>The NFSCTL.CMD then reports the resulting RC=99 from NFSC.EXE
>(as unknown) and exits.

>Additionally, the doc from IBM says that it's safe if one closes the
>window of the NFS Control Program when all mounted drives have been
>unmounted beforehand.

>>The gorp about checking mounts and stuff is useful, but mostly a nicety.

>Well, I couldn't find what a gorp is, :-) but my aim was to run the NFS
>client only while it is needed (because of it's overhead), i. e. only
>"during active mounts", and that's what I reached. :-) With QMOUNT,
>RXQUEUE, Procs & KillEm, and of course REXX, it was quite easy. :-)

>> (I'm not sure if it clears all previous mounts the
>>next time it starts up or not).

>I don't think so because I remember to once have seen a message from
>NFSC.EXE (or maybe NFSCTL.CMD) advising to run NFSCLEAN after next boot.

Horst,
   The procedure you outlined is safe.  As long as there are no outstanding
mounts, it is safe to kill the NFS client.  Interestingly, though, you
mentioned that you're killing it to free the resources it uses.  NFS client
actually only uses memory when you aren't using an NFS mounted drive (so
the only effect is a slightly bigger SWAPPER.DAT).  It consumes no CPU
time.
   You are correct on your second point, too; NFSCLEAN is used to remove any
NFS drives that weren't properly detached for one reason or another.
NFSCTL will not do this on its own when it's started.
          - Andre Asselin    (assela@rpi.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking,comp.protocols.misc
From: seifert@netcom.com (Rich Seifert)
Subject: Re: Is there a "ONE TO MANY" protocol ?
Followup-To: comp.protocols.misc
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:11:33 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.093253.27111@news.tu-graz.ac.at>, tom@piassun1.joanneum.ac.at (Tom Leitner) writes:
> Hi,
> 
> For our application we'd need a protocol which supports "ONE TO MANY"
> connections (on top of Ethernet). Is there something like that ? Perhaps
> there is a nifty trick how it can be done with IP networks. What about
> SNA in that respect.
> 
> I'd appreciate any comments either here or by e-mail to

There is also a nifty protocol for RELIABLE (guaranteed delivery)
one-to-many over Ethernet (or anything else). IEEE 802.1E was defined
as a download protocol. It was originally intended to simultaneously
load software into multiple identical devices (e.g., bridges or routers)
but can be used for any reliable one-to-many application. It
does not require IP or any internetwork protocol (but alas, therefore
operates only over a single logical LAN).



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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: gerry@pizzabox.dialogic.com (Gerry Lachac)
Subject: Request CONFIG.SYS, INI, NET.CFG from SMC w/Novell and TCP
Organization: Dialogic Corporation
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 21:11:22 GMT


I have the SMC8000.SYS driver for my SMC (ie Western Digital) ethernet
card, but I still cannot get Novell and IBM's TCP/IP to share the
card.  The TCP always fails to bind.  If anyone with this setup
working could mail me their CONFIG.SYS, PROTOCOL.INI and NET.CFG
files, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks.


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: bryan@isrc.sandia.gov (Jon R Bryan)
Subject: Need sendmail help
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Org. 1600, Albq., NM
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:03:16 GMT

I can't seem to get sendmail set up properly in TCP/IP 1.2.1.  If I
leave the nameserver undefined in ICAT I can send local mail by
addressing it in the form user@machine but I can't send mail to the
outside world.  If I define the nameserver I can send to the outside but
not locally.

What obvious thing am I missing?  Please enlighten my ignorance.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Distribution: jadpc2
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 19:26:04 -0800
From: Bill_Connell@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
Subject: Netware Requestor & NWLi
Comment-To: Joe_LoCicero@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
Reply-To: Bill_Connell@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
X-FSC-PATH: 202/514

JL> Hey!  How about this for an inexpensive *ATTEMPT* at peer-to-peer
between 
JL> an OS/2 2.0 machine and a DOS one: 
JL>  
JL> 1)  Buy Netware Lite for the DOS machine. 
JL>  
JL> 2)  Buy the Novell Requestor for the OS/2 machine. 
JL>  
JL> Voila?  Does this work?  Can anyone tell me if they've tried this 

      
JL> successfully, or unsuccessfully?   
JL>  
COMPSURF and 
JL> I aren't friends.  :-) 
JL>  
 
Compsurf is not required anymore! 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: I'm embarassed to ask this!
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 18:12:22 GMT

In article <1992Nov2.195651.21558@u.washington.edu> mhuth@byron.u.washington.edu (Mark Huth) writes:
>Can anyone tell me how to minimize the daemons which occur on startup?  I'd like
>to have them all open minimized rather than having to close each one.  I'm sure
>that Rexx allows me to do such a thing....but how??

(1) Make sure you have not SHIFT-maximized any windows in the system.
(2) Change your TCPSTART.CMD file so that the daemons start with START
/MIN...  (You might also want to add the /N parameter to some of them,
to cut down a tad on memory consumption.)
(3) We have created a program object called "Start TCP/IP," marked it
as Start Minimized, and dragged it to the Startup Folder (instead of
depending on STARTUP.CMD to run it).  It works quite well.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: LM and OS2 2.0 ?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:46:16 GMT

In article <euN8RB1w165w@gnct.com> garyng@gnct.com (garyng) writes:
>Is it true that Lan Manager(From MS) cannot run under OS2 2.0 as server ?
>If it is, does anyone know if there will be any chance that it will be changed
>in the future ?

That is correct.  If it does, it is not official supported.

I doubt Microsoft will change that stance, unless market pressures
dictate otherwise.  They seem intent on trying to move people to NT
once that becomes available (and it may be a wait).

The obvious upgrade path seems to be to IBM's LAN Server 3.0.  But
nothing is painless when it comes to LANs.  (Hint to IBM: buy the LAN
Manager mailing list, and offer attractive upgrade deals.)

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From: CHOJDH@BYUVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Problem with FTPPM
Date: 11 Nov 92 15:54:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: BYUVM.92316.085437CHOJDH
Organization: Brigham Young University

I have IBM's TCP/IP installed with the latest CSD.  I have not been able to
use FTPPM to transfer any files from for example software.watson.ibm.com.
When I use the 'get' command a window pops up with the following error:
"Error in transferring file.  You may not have required authorization or
file name may be incorrect."  Is this a known problem or am I doing something
wrong?  Any help will be appreciated.

Hans Douma
Brigham Young University
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: Peter Haight <psh1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Question on setting up TCP/IP 1.2.1
X-Xxdate: Fri, 6 Nov 92 16: 20:37 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: psh1@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:15:13 GMT


I just starting fooling around with OS/2 2.0 and I have gotten the TCP/IP
package for it. I'm used to DOS and packet drivers for the network stuff,
so basically all I want to do is set it up so that I can run something
like FTPPM and type in wuarchive.wustl.edu for a host and then get files
from wuarchive. The problem is that I don['t know how to tell OS/2 to
look up hosts at a Domain Name Server (DNS). How do I specify a DNS (and
a gateway, for that matter) so that I can use FTP and Telnet in the above
manner?

Please post here or email me at psh1@cornell.edu

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| psh1@cornell.edu			        | who does nothing because he can       |
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From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking,comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Packet Driver, NW Requestor and OS/2 ?
Date: 11 Nov 1992 14:05:01 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, jverreau@sol.uvic.ca () says:

>Joern Westermann asked:
>> Is it possible to run a packet driver application inside a DOS Window
>> under OS/2 _and_ the Netware Requestor?
>> I want to run the Charon Mailserver inside this window so I don't have
>> to set up an extra computer for it.
>> I installed the IPXPKT driver and then tried to start Charon. Charon
>> found the Mailqueue, but then dumped my screen with the repeated message
>> "Warn: Error -1 from Set Preferred Server (nwserver0)". Of course
>> Charon didn't work.
>> Any hints, even for running NCSA telnet inside the DOS session, are
>> welcome.
>
>
>Well Joern,  we have been trying much the same thing and trying to run any
>kind of packet driver set up with OS/2 and NetWare didn't work too well if
>at all.  We ended up going for IBM's TCP/IP 1.2.1 product for OS/2.  Even with
>using it took half a dozen people from IBM, SMC (our NIC supplier) and Novell
>to figure out all the config.sys, net.cfg and protocol.ini files.  NCSA telnet
>just doesn't work yet with the OS/2-Novell combination.  What appears to be the
>problem is that the Requester grabs hold of the NIC and won't let the packet
>drivers for Telnet access.  The TCP/IP product I mentioned above seems to have
>solved this.  If you ever do figure out a way to make them work please let
>the rest of us know.
>


I don't think that it will be possible to load a packet driver once an os2
ndis or odi driver is loaded.

From what I've picked up on the net, it should be possible to write a virtual
packet driver for os/2 dos sessions.  I could work like vipx.sys does, but
instead of providing vitual ipx support, it would provide a vitual packet
driver interface.

However, I don't think anything like that has been written yet.

Does anyone have any clues as to what has to be done to write such a thing?

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