HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: czinck@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Chris Zinck)
Subject: ? for netware "guts" gurus
Keywords: netware
Organization: NSTN Network Operations Centre, Nova Scotia, Canada
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:12:11 GMT

Hi,
A question for you gurus that know about the "guts" of Netware :)

I have had a server intermittantly corrupting data on a disk. Specifically
when the server was under load. In fact, I could cause it to happen but
running a little program I wrote that continuously sorted a file of records
and then check the sorted file against the unsorted file to see if the
records changed. When this was run on the five stations on the server, data
corruption occurred within five minutes.

After checking some simple things out, we had the hardware vendor come in
and try to find the problem. By replacing the network adapter, the problem
went away. The original adapter was a PureData PDI516+ and it was replaced
(temporarily) by a generic 8 bit ARCNET adapter (a lava card I think).

However, I am concerned that we have not found the real problem. When the
data corruption was happening, Netware DID NOT report any errors. So, it
seems to me that if the network card was the problem, Netware would have
reported errors.

The question is, where does Netware actually check incoming packets to see
if they are intact? After the the driver code? In the driver code? Does it
simply leave the data integrity to the network card?

Any thoughts on the subject?

Thanx,
Chris Zinck
czinck@fox.nstn.ns.ca
Xref: sparky bit.listserv.novell:17765 comp.sys.novell:9778
From: chad.w.german.1@nd.edu (Chad German)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell,comp.sys.novell
Subject: Need info on NDIS
Date: 23 Nov 92 18:59:40 GMT
Organization: University of Notre Dame

I have worked with the Crynwr Packet driver and the ODI drivers to provide 
Novell access along with using applications like NUPOP, Trumpet, and PC 
Gopher......  I'm wondering about NDIS drivers and I believe I read info 
where you have to have ODI sit on top of NDIS so I can do what I was able to 
do with the packet drivers and ODI.  I downloaded a zip file called 
dis_pkt9.... What I need to look at is someone configuration file where they 
have this implementation working....

Thanks for all the help...			
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Organization: Oregon State University
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:30:22 -0800
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         John Villalovos <villalj@INSTRUCTION.CS.ORST.EDU>
Subject: Re: Disk Failure

In article <01GRDRYYVBHU8WZQUR@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu> you write:
>I have a disk with a Netware volume which I cannot Vrepair.  Is there
>a company or anyone who I can send this disk to try and restore data
>from it.

Well Ontrack makes a program called NETUTILS 3 which you might try.  They also
do data recovery.  The NETUTILS program is supposed to be better then VREPAIR
so you might give them a call.  Also have you downloaded 311pt9.zip from
netlab2.usu.edu  This zip file contains an updated VREPAIR.NLM.  I don't know
if it will be able to fix your drive but you might try.  Also I would recommend
that you invest in a good backup system so that you only lose a days worth
of work in case something goes wrong.

Later,
--
John Villalovos
Certified Netware Engineer
villalj@xanth.cs.orst.edu
(503) 753-7883
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-Envelope-to: NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET
X-VMS-To: IN%"NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET"
X-VMS-Cc: JRD
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:36:42 -0600
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         Joe Doupnik <JRD@USU.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: NCSA Telnet and Windows

>Does Kermit allow multiple sessions ala Telnet?
>
>John
-------
        Good question. The current release, v3.12, does not, but the next
does (a half dozen seems about right). And the terminal kinds/setups can be
different in each session, and material is blocked until that session is
on the screen. This differs from the NCSA/CUTP approach of letting background
sessions scroll off the top of the hidden screens. And it has superwide
screens for display adapters which cannot do such things (fancy way of saying
smart horizontal scrolling). It has been my mainstay for many months, as
even more things are added over the next couple. But I didn't say this, did
I? Shhh, it's a secret until we announce testing of the whole thing.
        Joe D.
Xref: sparky bit.listserv.novell:17305 comp.sys.novell:9437
From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell,comp.sys.novell
Subject: LPD NLM Questions.
Date: 16 Nov 92 13:44:43 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand


A short and easy question. When using novells PLPD (Or whatever their LPD
server is called that comes with the NFS NLM'S), what user owns the spool job
when the file has been spooled?

Also. How much would people be prepared to pay for a standalone LPD?


-- 

     ?              Hamish Marson, Computer Science, University of Waikato 
   ?????            hamish@waikato.ac.nz.  Fax +64 7 8384066
 ?????????          Disclaimer:  Remember, you heard it here first!
		  
Taking a measurement changes the system being measured.
From: rp6dlb@TEXACO.COM (Derek L. Bell)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Subject: Re: Looking for .BAT file INPUT of password...
Date: 18 Nov 92 22:31:02 GMT
Reply-To: Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU

There is a shareware Batch file enhancer that can be put in a batch file and
 prompt for any string of information and assign it to a enviroment variable.
 The name of the command is GET. I have used it many times. You would use the
 var %get% instead of %1.
What I don't understand is why you need this for passing passwords to netware
 servers?!?!? If you sinc the passwords and ID's on all servers then you only
 need to enter it once on the prefered server and it can be passed if you use
 attach in the login.

Derek

rp6dlb@texaco.com
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v2.1a.
Apparently-To: <NOVELL@SUVM.bitnet>
Apparently-To: <aswiffin@dux.dundee.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 08:55:43 GMT
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         Einar Magnussen <EINARM@AMADEUS.CMI.NO>
Subject:      Re: EISA hard disk controllers

I just installed a Dell 450SE with a 4.2Gb disk system from Storage
Dimension. Their driver LANSTOR5.DSK is optimized for NetWare and the
speed is just incredible. Storage Dimension is using their own controller.
My system was delievered with 4 DEC 1Gb disks chained on one SCSI controller.
Tests have showed that the throughput are more or less twice as fast with
the controller and drivers from Storage Dimension compared to using the same
disks with Adaptec 1740 and Adaptec drivers from Netware.


                                 * * *
Einar Magnussen                             Internet: einarm@amadeus.cmi.no
Head of computing Section                   Compuserve: 70741,2567

Chr. Michelsen Institute
Dep. for social Sciences and Development
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:54:27 EST
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         "J. Pilant" <pilant@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL>
Subject:      communication server

Hi folks:
I need to set up some modems on my network.  We need dial-out and
dial-in capability.  First the dial-out conditions.
My setup uses packet drivers for the 3c503 cards from 3com.  We can use
IPX/SPX or TCP/IP.  We MUST be able to use PROCOMM (not PC+, just plain) and
we will also probably also use KERMIT.  We want to set up at least 2 modems
for outgoing calls.
For the dial-in conditions, we want remote laptops to call into our
network and use its programs.  I believe using something like PCAnywhere will
be best, although using a netmodem might be ok.
Could you mail me your opinions along with product names and examples of
what you use at your site.  In a week or two I will compile and post the
results.
Thanks.
/jeff
pilant@nadc.nadc.navy.mil
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-Envelope-to: novell@suvm.bitnet
X-VMS-To: IN%"novell@suvm.bitnet"
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Sun, 22 Nov 1992 18:20:45 +1300
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
Comments:     Warning -- original Sender: tag was BAIRD2@ONO.LINCOLN.AC.NZ
From:         J.Baird@ONO.LINCOLN.AC.NZ
Subject:      Re: map command from user login script

>From: stephen@BOKONON.UUCP
>
>It should NOT be.  My personal login script has a perfectly functional
>MAP statement with a hash.  Can anyone identify under what circumstances
>the hash is and is not needed on a MAP statement?

MAP without the hash uses the internal login script map command. MAP with a
hash uses \public\map.exe. There are slight differences between the two,
but in general, you should be able to do all you want with the internal
map command.

John
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   John Baird                           Internet:   J.Baird@ono.lincoln.ac.nz
   Senior Computer Consultant           CompuServe: 75360,35
   Centre for Computing & Biometrics    Phone:      (64) (3) 325-2811
   Lincoln University                   Fax:        (64) (3) 325-2944
   Canterbury
   New Zealand
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:45:00 GMT
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         "Thomas J. Klotzbach" <0003751365@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Lost hardware interrupts

    Hi!

    Last week, I swapped out a 3Com 16-bit 3C507 NIC in our HP Vectra 486sx file
server, which runs NetWare 3.11 over 10BaseT and replaced it with an HP 32-bit
Ethertwist NIC.

    I recently got a call from the remote site where the server is located and
was told that the server screen was "beeping and scrolling like crazy".  I
logged into a PC that is set up as a dialup server, ran RCONSOLE and confirmed
the problem.  The following message:

        11/19/92 9:20am: 1.1.140 Primary interrupt controller detected a lost
        hardware interrupt.

    was scrolling off the screen. There were so many of these messages scrolling
off the screen that it was just about impossible to type SET DISPLAY LOST
INTERRUPT ALERTS=OFF at the console prompt, but I finally got the command
entered and now all is quiet.

    When the 3Com card was installed, we would sometimes receive the above
messages, but I was told by 900 Support that they were due to a fast CPU/EISA
bus system "overloading" a slower 16-bit NIC, like the 3Com 3C507.  But should
we be having that problem with the 32-bit HP card?

    After I installed the HP card and booted the server, I noticed a message
that mentioned 16 API calls were outdated and to upgrade the software when a
newer version becomes available.  I assume the message was referring to the HP
NIC driver software.

    Does anybody have any clues as to why all the lost hardware interrupts are
occuring?  I have called our local HP dealer and they are still working on the
problem, but any help is appreciated.

*******************************************************************************
Thomas J. Klotzbach                   MCI Mail: 375-1365
Genesee Community College             Internet: 3751365@mcimail.com
Batavia, NY 14020                               klotzbtj@snybufva.cs.snybuf.edu
                                      Work: (716) 343-0055 x358
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 11:24:36 CST
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         CACHO@ITESO.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Re-booting a Pc with soft

>
> To Reboot a PC from Software you just need to to a JMP FFFF:0. This will
> cause a warm boot. If you want a "cold" boot you need to zero out the warm
> boot flag in the ROM bios Data area.
>
  You can reboot a PC with a call to INT 19h, no parameters too.

--
  Hector Gonzalez, Iteso University.
  Guadalajara, Mexico.
  Cacho@iteso
  Cacho@itesocci.gdl.iteso.mx
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Return-Path: @westpoint-emh2.army.mil:vw2487@uscc1
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:03:13 EST
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         Robertson William <vw2487@WESTPOINT-EMH2.ARMY.MIL>
Subject:      using barrels to add loop to thinnet

I have to add some workstations to a thinnet; the easiest way is to cut into a
loop that is in the ceiling about 20' from the new location. I would use BNC
barrels to add the new loop. I know this isn't ideal, but it would be difficult
to re-pull the cable to the new location.
The loop is because the cable passes this location to get to a single station,
then returns to get to others.
Has anyone done this?

Also, I know 600' is the segment limit, but seem to remember something about
maximum number of stations on a segment. I've looked through the books, but
can't find the charts & diagrams I remember seeing. Anyone know where they are?
Or is there a max # stations on segment?

Bill Robertson, Eisenhower Hall Theatre, DCA, USCC, USMA, NY.Phn:914-938-4176
      e-mail to: vw2487@westpoint-emh2.army.mil              Autovon 688-4176
From: BRUNIJ@A1.ISD.UPMC.EDU (John Bruni 647-2133)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Subject: LANalyzer for Netware (Thanks)
Date: 15 Nov 92 18:25:00 GMT
Reply-To: Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Content-type: TEXT
Posting-date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 13:32 EST
Importance: normal
Priority: non-urgent
X-Hop-count: 1
A1-type: MAIL

I justed wanted to thank all who responded to my posting regarding the SMC ODI
driver for LZFN.

This product has paid for itself already.  It enabled me to determine that a
misconfigured Cisco router was bridging all of our backbone traffic which was
causing performace problems as well as generating hundreds of fragment errors.

I don't know how I would have determined this without the LZFN.

Again, thanks a million,

John Bruni

BRUNIJ@EDISON.ISD.UPMC.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
From: hberg@polisci.umn.edu (Bob Hammarberg)
Subject: More SMC Elite 32T problems
Organization: Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:04:40 GMT

I just found out that the 32T can't handle AppleTalk Phase 2; a fix is 
promised for "early next year".  

Why is SMC rushing unfinished products into the market?  It sure as hell 
doesn't create any good will, does it?!

Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-Envelope-to: NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET
X-VMS-To: IN%"NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET"
X-VMS-Cc: JRD
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:17:08 -0600
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         Joe Doupnik <JRD@USU.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: NCSA Telnet and Windows

>Is there a version of NCSA Telnet that runs under windows (as a windows
>application)?  We have some users that are running telnet from the dos
>prompt within windows and are having lots of difficultly with using key
>combinations that normally would work from the standalone version of telnet
>interferring with windows and doing nasty things like locking up their
>PC's.
>
>*************************************************************************
>Ronald J. Zelman                         Internet:  rzelman@coh.org
>Technical Services Manager
>City Of Hope Medical Center
>Duarte, CA  91010
>*************************************************************************
        Get smart and dump NCSA Telnet for MS-DOS Kermit. The keyboard is
handled properly (no interference with/from other material), and NCSA's
rendition is from my offering to them and then their implementation. Kermit
runs fine in an enhanced mode Window, and Windows 3.1 lets you change the
font too. Be sure to load shim WINPKT before starting windows. Get winpkt
from prime site netlab2.usu.edu, cd drivers, and from many other places.
        Joe D.
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Return-Path: <ZAMPETTI@ares.pmw.upenn.edu>
Priority: normal
X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail/Mac v2.0
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:10:20 -400
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         zampetti@ARES.PMW.UPENN.EDU
Subject:      Security Enhancement

Well, I just spent the weekend, actually just Saturday, installing the recent
 Novell
security releases as well as the latest round of patches. The actual
 installation wasn't a
problem, and everything seemed to be going well. The server had been restarted
 and
everything loaded fine. So, I sat down and tried to log in.
That was my first mistake. The server immediately ABENDed. All I did was type in
my username. I never even got to the password. The ABEND message was something
about ReplyKeep being too long.
        Well, I had a copy of another problem with the security upgrade, I think
 is was
 Joe
D., in which he mentioned that there was a problem with the Pburst.nlm that came
 with
the security upgrade. I tried using the old Pburst.nlm v.1.0 and everthing
 worked fine.
But, I still have a few questions:

                1)  According to the security.doc file that came with the softwa
re, it says
 that the
PBURST.NLM is required for the NCP Signing to work. Since I am using the old
PBUSRT.NLM, am I actually using the siging stuff.
  2) Also, When I used the bnetx.exe shell instead of the netx.exe shell, it
 took over 2
minutes just to log in. I don't understand this at all. Is there some reason
 that this
would happen? I thought it might have been slow due to the singing stuff, but I
 turned
that off, by settng the client to level 0, and still everthing was really slow.
 Not always,
just doing things like loading programs and logging in were slow.

Thanks for any help you can provide, and I hope this helps some people as well.


------------------------------------------------------------
Marc Zampetti
Systems Administrator
Wharton - Policy Modeling Workshop
University of Pennsylvania
(215) 898 - 4757
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:10:02 CST
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         "Derek L. Bell" <rp6dlb@TEXACO.COM>
Subject: Re: Registering memory above 16 Meg

You need to replace thw
You need to replace the SCSI card with an EISA scsi card. EISA systems have a
 problem with registring memory above 16mb when you have isa cards installed. Im
 not real sure why.

Derek
rp6dlb@texaco.com
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:30:00 LCL
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         Dave Kearns <DKEARNS.TCC@KLAVEN.TCI.COM>
Subject:      MicroWave connection

Anybody using MicroWave to connect two sites?  Who's are you using? What's
performance like? What about cost?

    You can send to me direct, and I'll summarize for the list..

-dave

+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| Dave Kearns                 |                                |
| Manager, Info Services      | dkearns@klaven.tci.com         |
| Thomas-Conrad Corp.         | dkearns@tcc [MHS via NHUB]     |
| 1908-R Kramer Lane          | dkearns@tcc [MHS via CSERVE]   |
| Austin, TX 78758            | 76704,62 [CompuServe]          |
| (512) 836-1935              |                                |
|"There is nothing so inefficient as doing efficiently that    |
| which shouldn't be done at all."                             |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-Envelope-to: novell@suvm.bitnet
X-VMS-To: IN%"novell@suvm.bitnet"
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:54:10 -0600
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         DDV5213@TNTECH.BITNET
Subject:      New Netware 3.11 installation

I just found out that I will be installing 3.11 for the first time on Saturday.
    Our original installer had to cancel.  I have experience with 2.12, is there
    anything that I should be aware of (SCSI, IDE, etc) as far major problems go
   .

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Donald D. Viar
Tennessee Technologial University
DDV5213@TNTECH.EDU
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Organization: Resource Protection Department
Priority:     normal
X-Mailer:     Pegasus Mail v2.3 (R4).
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 11:48:53 EST
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         Ray Todd Stevens <RAY@SAFETY.NWSCC.SEA06.NAVY.MIL>
Subject:      Re: Apology

>Some of  the subscribers  to NOVELL have  just been  sent several
>messages from a test LISTSERV list called VMMAP. I was attempting
>to test  a part of  LISTSERV's mail distribution  mechanism using
>the subscriber  list of  NOVELL as  a source of  a large  list of
>addresses.
>
>Because of  an error in  my configuration  of my test  LISTSERV a
>subset  of the  NOVELL subscribers  got  a copy  of several  test
>messages. This is my red-faced  apology for putting that trash in
>your mailbox.
>
No problem here.  Mater a fact if it would help, I could set you up
several addresses here you could ping back and forth to.

 >
>Glenn A. Malling (NETMAN@SUVM) or netman@suvm.syr.edu
>Syracuse University Computing Services   +1 (315) 443-4111
>Machinery Hall  Syracuse, New York 13244-1260
>
Ray Todd Stevens
Contractor
Resource Protection Dept NSWC Crane Div.
Ray@safety.nwscc.sea06.navy.mil
(812) 854-3292  854-3294  854-3289
      854-3293  854-3482

   "He who asks a question may be a fool, but he who never asks"
                     "remains a fool forever"
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:24:25 -0800
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         MoonLight <yuan@MIS.NSYSU.EDU.TW>
Subject:      question about ATOTAL....

    Hi,

       We have use Novell Netware 3.11 for a long time, and enable

 [C [C [C [Caccount server.  However, when I use the 'ATOTAL' to check the

    accounts, it search for a long time, but echo nothing for me ?

    What troubles about me ? Can you give me help ?  Thank a lot.

                                           yuan@mis.nsysu.edu.tw
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 09:24:57 EST
From: Dave Jeffery <JI8@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Subject: Utility to retrieve Password?

Is there a utility available that will return the password of a logged on user?

I would like to use this utility to log onto other systems (not Netware) that
have passwords synchronized with the Novell server.

(Norton Desktop for Windows appears to be able to read the password since it
allows you to tie a screen saver password to the Novell password.)

Thank you for any help you can give me.
----
 Dave Jeffery           JI8@psuvm.psu.edu
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU