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From: carol@ee.uts.edu.au (Carol Gibson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: server crash error message
Date: 15 Oct 92 00:56:28 GMT
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
NNTP-Posting-Host: rossi.ee.uts.edu.au

Our 3.11 file server crashed today - it looks identical to one that
happened over a month ago. The error message on the console says

	Abend: General Protection Exception (Error code 00CD0000)
		OS version : Novell Netware v3.11 (250 user) 2/20/91
		Running Process: plpd		u Process
		Stack : <3 lines of stuff>

The u on the 3rd line has two dots above it too.

Last time this happened the Running Process was plpd too. Is this some
sort of NFS problem? The manual gives me no clues...

At the moment we're sticking disks in the file server, as it requested we
do. Does anyone know what I'm actually supposed to *do* with all these
disks when we reboot?

All help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

	Carol Gibson
	University of Technology, Sydney, Australia


Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: will@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (William Sadler)
Subject: Re: Novell leak and open university labs
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 14:38:40 GMT

In <1av72hINNjn7@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> bob_groendyke@macgate.csuchico.edu (Bob Groendyke) writes:

>I've read much of the info concerning the current security problem. I
>understand the reasoning for limiting Supervisor login time, and having
>passworded accounts, and am running Showevnt on my servers. 

>Be that as it may, I have a couple of servers running in university labs,
>and have unpassworded accounts in this setting. Having passworded acounts
>for students to access word processors, spreadsheets, etc. would be a
>major administrative undertaking given the number of accounts and the
>change from semester to semester. I'd like to hear from others running
>open labs on how they are dealing with this problem. 

I have a similar situation.  Basically you can do the following:

Set access for those accounts only from your IPX subnet
Set access for those accounts only from particular ethernet addresses (this
is not really secure since an ethernet address can be duplicated, but
an IPX subnet address cannot.
Limit login time to those times when the lab is open
Make sure that the accounts do not have rights to anything beyond what
they actually need.  Minimum rights to get the job done and that's it.

There are probably some otehr things too.  Make sure you install a
virus checking program in RAM on those machines.

Will
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From: narula@oberon.umd.edu (Mandeep Narula)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Help with Novell 3.11 printing.
Keywords: Novell Quicken Printing
Date: 13 Oct 92 23:50:10 GMT
Originator: narula@oberon.umd.edu


       Hello, I am not a regular reader of this newgroup, but I was
       hoping that some Novell Gurus could help me with a little problem
       I am having with printing to Quicken for Dos (version 4.0) using
       Novell's capture command to capture lpt1, and then redirect it
       to a HP Laserjet III queue on the server.  The problem is that the 
       job doesn't print until I exit Quicken and return to dos.  It is only
       at this time that print job is released and sent to the Novell queue.

       The capture command being used is quite standard...

       'Capture /q=laser nb nff'  

      I am not using the endcap features, at least I beleive so.

       I was wondering if this is a Novell problem with the way I set up
       the capture command or the forms, or is it a standard problem with 
       some Dos applications.

       Any help will be grealty appreciated, thanks in advance.

       Please mail responses to narula@oberon.umd.edu

       Mandeep Narula


       


Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: dazz@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr D.K. Woodman)
Subject: Novell API
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 06:05:05 GMT

Is the Novell API available from an ftp site somewhere or is it only
available when the Netware C developrs kit is purchased?

thanks
dazz

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: saint@mail (Ming-Jer Lee)
Subject: RPLODI
Organization: National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 10:21:42 GMT

  What is rplodi, and how to use it? Can ODI work with remote boot?

                  E-Mail : saint@mail.ncku.edu.tw
From: mcollins@db.novell.com (Marty Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: IPTUNNEL Security?
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:53:12 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

jm0b@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Janet Doherty) writes:

STUFF DELETED


: >>Basically I would like to disable the IPTUNNEL from accepting an connections
: >>but the specified Peers.  Is that possible?
: 
: I have two questions on the above:
: 
:      1.  If you have a tunnel between 2 servers (over an IP net) ....then it
:      is possible for passwords to be seen??????

	Not if you use encrypted passwords. As with all lan traffic the
	packets can be captured whether the transport is IPX across the
	WAN or UDP. THen the packets can be viewed for password info.
	If you use encrypted passwords on Novell then the password
	is not easily seen as with straight text.
: 
:      2.  Could you lessen the problem with unathorized login by setting only
:      allowed network login addresses under "Station Restrictions" in
:      SYSCON?????....or even getting down to the node level ......especially
:      for the Supervisor account????????????????>

	Sure any way of inhibiting bad logins is great but once a password
	has been found it is all over. It would require somebody capturing
	the packet that had the encrypted password and then rebroadcasting
	it back toward the server from the desired workstation, which
	is no easy task. 

: >Not with the current software sold by Novell.  How much are you
: >willing to pay for such a facility?  If it's important enough to IP
: >tunnel users everywhere, i'm sure Novell could be convinced to boast
: >the priority of such facilities.  At the moment, as Keith mentions,
: >Novell does not consider the IP tunnel a security device.  In fact, we
: >don't encourage the use of the tunnel over public IP networks at all.
: >If there's sufficient demand for an IP tunnel that does function as a
: >security portal, Novell might be convinced to develop such a product.
: >
: >                                               don provan
: >                                               donp@novell.com
: >
: -- 
: _______________________________________________________________________________
: 
: Janet Doherty
: Senior Communications Analyst
: (215) 758-5003
: JM0B@lehigh.edu

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   1-800-NETWARE
From: mndot@msus1.msus.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Rconsole/Remote problems
Date: 15 Oct 92 08:55:46 -0600
Organization: Minnesota State University System

In article <1992Oct15.121427.10701@msdrl.com>, andrews@msdrl.com (Richard Andrews) writes:
> Is it possible that you have some IBM bridges in this setup?  If so , are you
> running ROUTE on all NetWare servers and workstations?
> 
> -Rich

Sorry, no IBM bridges in the lot.  We are using cisco routers exclusively and
we refuse to do bridging due to the problems that creates when trouble
shooting. We are experimenting with other NICs in the affected workstations to
see if maybe it is NIC congestion.  

Hasen't anyone else seen a problem like this?  I consider us a relatively small
operation with 2 local ethers, 1 local token-ring, 24 T1 circuits, and various
small lans at the ends of the T1's.  


 -- Al
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: jel@rf.no (Jan-Erik Larsen)
Subject: Charon 4.0: In/out formats??
Organization: Rogaland University Center
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 10:36:47 GMT

hallo everybody,

can anyone please tell me 
  what does charon accept as input format
    (can cc:Mail be used?
     how does cc:Mail know about charon-queues)
  what comes out of charon?
    (smtp mail directly?)

thanks in advance

jan-erik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: How to access Read Audit/Write Audit?
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 19:28:55 GMT


Reading the Proserve manual, I've stumbled across a couple of
file permissions bits called 'read audit' and 'write audit'.

I infer they let you log who has been reading or writing
particular files.  I couldn't find anything about them in
the Novell sys admin, utilities or concepts books.

Do these bits exist on 3.11 and how do you access them?
Thanks

Graham.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: andrews@msdrl.com (Richard Andrews)
Subject: Re: Rconsole/Remote problems
Organization: Merck Research Laboratories
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 12:14:27 GMT

Is it possible that you have some IBM bridges in this setup?  If so , are you
running ROUTE on all NetWare servers and workstations?

-Rich
Xref: sparky comp.sys.novell:8170 comp.sys.sun.apps:2208
From: adam@chroma.Xerox.COM (Adam Stein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Does anybody know the address/phone # of Spry Inc.?
Date: 12 Oct 92 19:24:36 GMT
Reply-To: adam@iset.scan.mc.xerox.com
Organization: Imaging Science Engineering & Technology, Xerox Corporation

I'm looking for the address (or better yet, phone number) of Spry Inc.
out of Seattle, WA.  I've read that they have a novell client package for Suns.

Thanx for any help.

							Adam Stein
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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Novell API for Macintosh?
Date: 16 Oct 92 18:53:32 MDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Utah State University

In article <D88-JWA.92Oct16223621@dront.nada.kth.se>, 
d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon Wtte) writes:
>> dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman) writes:
> 
>> Novell has two products available for Macintosh product developers.
>> Available are the "NetWare for Macintosh Developers's Kit (SDK)" as
>> well as the "NetWare AppleTalk Interfaces for NLMs (SDK)."  Both
>> products are available through Novell of Austin (Tx).  Please call
>> them @ 1-800-REDWORD.  They will certainly help you obtain the
>> products you require...
> 
> Thanx for the answer! 
> For those of us outside the US (including me who asked the question)
> is there a number that doesn't start with 800? And even better, a
> fax number, too! 
>  -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Suedoise (not french speaking) --

	Novell Developer Relations (Austin, Texas):
	1-800-RED-WORD == 1-800-733-9673
	1-512-794-1796 voice  (I don't have a fax number handy)
Be prepared to explain your project and the degree to which you might require
support. Updates to SDK material are normally available on Compuserve in the
developer's forum novdev.
	Joe D.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: mancini@fermat.cs.jhu.edu (Todd A. Mancini)
Subject: Moving to a new 2.15C server
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 19:12:33 GMT

In the very near future I will be putting my old 2.15C server out to pasture
(it will become a workstation), and I will be installing a new 2.15C server.
I want to move all of the old files and users to the new server.  I am going
to make a complete backup (but not an image backup), and I plan to
simply restore this to the new server.  But, I'm sure this will not work
that smoothly.  Please send me email with your advice about how to make this
move as painless as possible.

    Thanks,
     -Todd (mancini@cs.jhu.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: pcnot4me@cs.montana.edu (Craig Pratt)
Subject: Help - Remote serial plotters
Keywords: Novell RPrinter PServer printing
Reply-To: pcnot4me@cs.montana.edu (Craig Pratt)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:50:08 GMT

We have a bunch of HP 7475A plotters that need to be hooked up as remote
printers to our print server running Novell 3.11.  I created the printers
in PConsole, defined them as remote printers and configured them as remote
serial COM2 at 9600, n, 8 1.  We've been using these plotters as local
plotters for quite some time with no communications problems.

But, when I try to start RPrinter on one of the machines, it locks up.
It prints out that it's connected, but never continues.  The print
server monitor on the file server says that the printer is "connecting"
but never gets any further.  If I reboot the station and try to connect 
the same printer, it says that it's already in use.  Unloading the print 
server doesn't unlock the station.

The serial port in these stations is part of one of these multi-io cards 
that has a 9-pin serial, 25-pin serial, parallel and game port.  The 9-pin
port is used for the mouse and the 25-pin is used for the plotter.

Please help me out.  Thanks.

-- 
  Craig Pratt                                          pcnot4me@cs.montana.edu
  Montana State University, Bozeman MT            gcp1070@msu.oscs.montana.edu
   What's the difference between a used-car salesman and a computer salesman?
       A used-car salesman knows when he is lying. - Andrew Loewenstern
From: holger@perm.geologie.uni-freiburg.de (Holger Hussy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Print form 3.11 to Appletalk?
Date: 8 Oct 1992 14:50:43 +0100
Organization: "Geologisches Institut, Freiburg, Germany"
NNTP-Posting-Host: perm.geologie.uni-freiburg.de

Is it possible to print to Appletalk printers from a 3.11 Netware server ?
 
-- 
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Phone : +49-761-203-2408      Fax: +49-761-203-2463
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: MAVERICK@ame-cts.nchu.edu.tw (Lin Yu-Wen)
Subject: Re: Wattcp telnetd over odipkt?
Organization: Dept of Agri. Mech. Eng. NCHU Taiwan
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:08:10 GMT

In article <1a0r2fINNf7h@agate.berkeley.edu> sowings@ocf.berkeley.edu (Sanford Owings) writes:
>From: sowings@ocf.berkeley.edu (Sanford Owings)
>Subject: Wattcp telnetd over odipkt?
>Date: 26 Sep 1992 05:05:19 GMT
>I have heard a lot of people rave about the versatility that telnetd
>allows a remote user.  I however, have been unable to get it working.
>My question is this:  Will the TELNETD work on top of the odipkt
>driver?  (BTW, I use the Novell ODI software for my LAN connection
>and LWP4DOS for my tcp/ip needs.)

    My TELNETD works fine. Maybe you should offer more information 
about yourconfiguration.

---Wen
From: mcollins@db.novell.com (Marty Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: IPTUNNELing
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:09:06 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

todd@deepspace.ucsb.edu (Todd Gaier) writes:
: So we've got TCPIP loaded and our server is attached to the Internet (We
: can even PING it!). We want to put a PC somewhere else on the Internet
: and log into our server. It would appear from the TCPIP documentation
: that we need to load IPTUNNEL on the server and purchase LANWorkplace
: for DOS or some third party client system and load it onto the DOS machine.
: My question is simple- What is the least expensive way to accomplish this
: goal, using third party software or otherwise? Thanks in advance

Can't help you with third party software but you can accomplish a tunnel
in one of two ways.

1.) Two 3.11 servers on the internet with associated ip_address. Load 
    iptunnel on both machines with peer=the_other_ip_address.
    You now have a tunnel created and all this was bundled with
    Netware 3.11.

2.) One 3.11 server and a LWP workstation as you have stated above. This
    obviously requires LWP for DOS.

    Each way has it's advantages and disadvantages.


: 
: Todd Gaier
: todd@cfi.ucsb.edu

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   NOVELL, INC.  San Jose, CA.        
   mcollins@novell.com 
   1-800-NETWARE
From: mgmam@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Mark A. Morrell)
Subject: Re: Leak in Novell
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 23:24:25 GMT

In article <1992Oct11.161528.12560@cse.iitb.ernet.in> srinivas@cse.iitb.ernet.in (Srinivas V) writes:
>I feel that the public key encryption should be implemented. The server will 
>publicize a key and all nodes communicating with the server will encrypt using
>the key. Only the server will be able to decrypt the message as only the server
>has both the keys. Similarly at the login time each node/client should be able
>to generate a similar set of keys and publicize one of them. All the data 
>coming to the client/node will be encrypted using the key publicised by the 
>client. Only the client will be able to decrypt the data as it has both the 
>keys. No hacker would be able to breakin. Basically the keys would be a 
>set of large prime numbers.   Hope somebody from novell is listening!.
>
>  ......     Srinivas V.                                            ......

Two questions:
1)  Since I believe the problem with one of the holes in Novells
security system has to do with forging packets from your node to make
them look like they are from another node, doesn't having the server
broadcast the encryption key allow the person doing the forging access
to the same key, and thus allow the same method of breaking in?  If all
you need to do is broadcast the packets, then who cares if you can
decipher packets sent by other stations?

2)  What would "total encryption" do to the speed and efficiency of a
network?

Just wondering...

Mark A. Morrell
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: Stephen I Miller <similler@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: IP Routing Problem
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 23:00:31 GMT
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]

I am trying, unsuccessfully, to get two NetWare 3.11 servers to communicate 
with each other by using IP routing.  Could someone out there who has do this 
please tell me exactly what commands you entered at each server to get it to 
work?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

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From: $davee@sasb.byu.edu (Dave Edmunds - MIS Hardware)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: SCO TCP version, how to?
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:07:02 GMT
Organization: Brigham Young University

I believe mcollins from NOVELL said I need TCP v1.2.  How do I check that?  
I went through the sysadmsh and no where does it give version #.  The guy 
who installed it, did not write down version #s.  Is there a file size I 
need to check.

Oh yeah, I can ping fine.

Please help!

TIA.

-Dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: d88-jwa@byse.nada.kth.se (Jon Wtte)
Subject: Re: Leak in Novell
Originator: d88-jwa@byse.nada.kth.se
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
	<Bw17oq.AvF@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 09:56:03 GMT

> mgmam@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Mark A. Morrell) writes:

   2)  What would "total encryption" do to the speed and efficiency of a
   network?

On solutions I've seen, encryption in the driver decreases
performance by 50% on a typical system with a safe algorithm.
DES isn't safe.

However, if you're prepared to pay a little, you can get
special net-encryption-and-filtering boxes that don't affect
performance at all; you add them after the ethernet interface
on each machine...



-- 
 -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Suedoise (not french speaking) --

   There's no problem that can't be solved using brute-force algorithms
   and a sufficiently fast computer. Ergo, buy more hardware.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: donp@novell.com (don provan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: RARP under Netware?
Date: 13 Oct 92 01:08:44 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc., San Jose, California

In article <1992Oct5.161140.59451@cc.usu.edu> jrd@cc.usu.edu writes:
>In article <1992Oct5.204318.20036@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>, rob@facl.mcgill.ca (Robert Macfarlane) writes:
>> Does anybody know of an NLM which provides RARP service for IP addressing?
>
>	Novell has written an unofficial one. Try sjf-lwp.corp.sjf.novell.com,
>or if that doesn't work for some reason look for my copy of rarpserv.* on
>netlab2.usu.edu, cd misc. It works so thank the troops at sjf (Don Provan is
>probably the author, but is too shy to admit to such a thing).

Nope, it wasn't me.  It was developed by the Novell group across the
street that brought you Flex/IP and NFS for NetWare.  In fact, this is
the first i've heard that it's being distributed as an unofficial NLM,
as opposed to being an official component of those two products.  You
learn something new every day.
						don provan
						donp@novell.com
p.s. When have you ever known me to be shy?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: usgehb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Evelyn H. Buffington)
Subject: Info/experience using Citadel Systems' NetOFF
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:05:20 GMT

Our site recently got a trial copy of Citadel Systems' NetOFF which I haven't
taken out of the box yet.  Has anyone had experience with this package (good
or bad)?  FYI, it is a memory resident (2K) program that monitors the network
and logs off inactive users after a specified period of time.  Just thought
I'd check before actually putting it on the LAN for testing...  Thanks.

-- 
Evelyn Buffington, GSU Computer Center,  Internet: usgehb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu
From: blair@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Gary Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Novell vs Sparc 10
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:29:36 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

I have heard that when using PC-based servers, even 50 MHz EISA 486's, that the
bottleneck in Novell networks is the server's ethernet connection.  Is this
true?  Does anyone have quantitative numbers comparing such a system with
Sparc 10's?  Performance numbers, that is.  Thanks in advance.

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