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From: fenton@iron.hq.aflc.af.mil (George I. Fenton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: CNE certification question
Date: 27 Jan 93 13:26:48 GMT
Organization: U.S. Air Force Security Assistance Center (AFSAC)



Hi there!  After reading the previous posting from a disgrunted prospect
CNE, I can see why Novell wants you to buy their self-study books.  I had
a similar encounter where I was 5 points off from passing the 3.11 System
Manager exam.  DRAX Technologies says that their testing format proves
their worth ... I say they do not.  Plus, their methodology in the section
analysis is real bogus:  the precentage as stated is suppose to show you
the number of probable questions you will get correct if all possible questions
are asked in that particular section.  Well, I passed the Networking
Technologies but my section analysis showed a probable 60-65% in three
sections.  But, the System Exam results had a much better section analysis
but failed it.

If you want to be a CNE, I recommend you examine the economic and
intellectual payoffs in achieving a CNE status.  To some people, they're
willing to pay $3000-4000 over a 12-month period to get a CNE.  Of course,
they were to get a payraise that would "make up" for it (in other words,
they checked out the paybacks possibility beforehand).
k

I agree that if your employer wants you to become a CNE, then they
should show commitment towards your education (since they will probably get
a payoff maybe in terms of marketing, etc.).   However, if you want to or
desire to become a CNE (for any reason), then you have to decide how
you are going to fund your own education (try getting the employer to
pay for it first, of course).

--GIF
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
Subject: Re: Novell packet encapsulation on Ethernet - which to choose?
Organization: NobelTech AB
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:51:25 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.135142.18737@infodev.cam.ac.uk> ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:
>
>Novell recognises 4 Ethernet frame types (e.g., see "3.11 System
>Administration", p.125): _802.3, _II, _Snap and _802.2.

Oh......no..
And I was being confused enough with three types. So, does anybody know
what SSAP and DSAP 802.2 uses ? Am I to understand that there are THREE
types on Token-Ring also, and not two as I thought ?

/Per - Confused, with no manuals yet
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From: Mark_Muhlestein@Novell.COM (Mark Muhlestein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Novell 3.11 security pitfalls?
Keywords: security
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:10:56 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.


I appreciate the calm tone of this discussion, Brett.  Let's try to
get any remaining questions cleared up.

Regarding the security features of future products, I think I'd best
defer detailed discussions until the products are described through
normal channels, but I do think you will be pleased with what we will
be offering.

On the issue of the timing of the KNOCK.EXE patch, you wrote:

>As stated below,it appears to me that Novell did have a fix to the
>KNOCK.EXE hole but did not inform people about the loophole or the fix
>until the hole was published to the net.
 [ ... ]
>It is my understanding that the patch was NOT released until well after
>3.11 was out.  (I was not aware of the patch being released until about
>March or April 1992, and the server I administer was running 3.11 since
>July 1992 or so).  I therefore concluded that Novell knew about the bug
>sometime before the release of 3.11 (June 1991 or before) but did not
>acknowledge it and release a 3.10 patch until March or April 1992.  If
>the patch was released at the same time (or before) NetWare 3.11 was
>released, then I am mistaken and I apologize.

OK, I think we can straighten this out.  The problem was found in
December 1990, as nearly as I can determine.  The 3.10 patch was
devised within two days of the bug report, and was officially made
available early in January, 1991.  By the end of January 1991,
thousands of downloads of the patch ("PASSFIX") had been done on
NetWire.  The 3.11 release was cut mid-February 1991, and incorporated
the bug fix.  The timing of these events was fairly close, so I can see
why you might have been confused about this, although you are way off
on the date of 3.10 patch.

>>Again, I can't speak for Novell, but why would anyone do this?

>Why?  Because they can hope that no one will ever find it, and then the
>users will never have to be told that it exists, which will make
>NetWare look better.  (A bad strategy, it would seem to me, as there
>are plenty of hackers out there doing their best to find their way in.)
>     - Brett

As I mentioned before, the problem was not discovered in-house, so
there was never any question of avoiding telling the users.  In any
case I agree this would be a bad strategy, which is why I asked the
question.  I hope this information helps clear things up.

Speaking for myself only,

Mark_Muhlestein@novell.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: pjc@YP.melb.bull.com (Paul Carapetis)
Subject: Novell partition on 340MByte IDE drive - HELP
Keywords: novell ide partition]
Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Australia.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:33:16 GMT

Why am I having trouble getting Novell to create a partition on a 340 MByte
IDE drive using type 47 user definable in CMOS?

Any help greatly appreciated.  Please reply to pjc@melb.bull.oz.au

Thanks and Blueskies,
Paul

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: daborton@va (David A. Borton)
Subject: Re: Help on connecting a 3.11 IPX net with the Internet.
Organization: Novell, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:02:46 GMT

jmitchel@husc17.harvard.edu writes:
: Could some kind soul explain what would be required to provide
: at internet connection to our Novell 3.11 network.
: 
: We would need to exchange mail with the internet, maintain an FTP site,
: acquire a news feed, and allow a few staions direct access (telnet, ftp, etc.) 
: (If at all possible we do NOT want to assign each station an IP address as 
: most stations will not need to access the internet directly. Is there a way
: to assign addresses as they are needed?)
: 
: Jason Mitchell
: Discovery Communciations Inc.
: The Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel
: My employers don't need me to speak for them. They run two cable channels.

Looks like FLex/IP from Novell would provide the functions you are looking
for.  FLex/IP can make your file server an FTP site.  You would NOT be able
to telnet into the 3.11 server and establish a NetWare connection, but you
could use the TCPIP.NLM to route TCP/IP traffic from an IP host (workstation)
to an operating system that supports telnet, such as UNIX or VMS.  I suggest
you call 800-NETWARE and press 6 when the cyber-attendant answers... this
will take you to a FAX server, from which you can request document 661
(FLex/IP), and/or document 660 (NetWare NFS), and/or document 640 (LAN
Workplace for DOS).
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Wanted: alternative to Pserver/Rprinter
From: gkean@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Graham Kean)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:42:37 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Keywords: print server rprinter

Can anyone point me towards an alternative to PSERVER/RPRINTER ?

I am finding that support of more than 16 remote printers is difficult
with the standard Novell system, as PSERVER.EXE on a dedicated station
refuses to re-connect to Rprinter stations when re-loaded after a config
change like a printer addition.  It's a real pain to have to get all
users of rprinter to re-start.  We also find that Pserver gets confused
on occasion if an rprinter station is re-booted, and thus needs to be
re-started itself.

I have seen a reference in this newsgroup to the `I-Queue!' product, but
this appears to replace Rprinter only, not Pserver. (although it looks
like it would help with our Windows workstations).



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: cranch@novell.com (Christopher Ranch)
Subject: Re: What happend to ftp.novell.com??
Organization: Novell Inc., San Jose, Califonia
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:41:17 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.205829.28124@novell.com> cranch@novell.com (Christopher Ranch) (me) writes:
>
>	You can also still get to the machine that ftp.novell.com used
>	to point to.  It's real name is ftp.is.sandy.novell.com, and
>	ftp.novell.com was just an alias to it.

	Sorry for misleading y'all, but ftp.is.sandy.novell.com has been
	taken off line.  

	Chris
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: heitbaum@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Rudolph Jan HEITBAUM)
Subject: Where is pserv..... ?????
Summary: I'm looking for PSERV for Novell 3.11
Keywords: pserv, printer
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:19:28 GMT

	Could someone post me a copy of the PSERV program for
novell, or give me a FTP site which I can download it from.

thanks in advance 

heitbaum@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU
From: root@lyra.scg.hac.com (Dave Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Backup software info for 8mm needed
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:00:22 GMT
Reply-To: fisher@lyra.hac.com (Dave Fisher)
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., Carlsbad, CA


We're setting up a 486 based Novell server running 3.11.  We already have
an 8mm drive attached via SCSI, and we'd like to get a good third party
backup program.  If you have any recommendations, phone numbers of vendors,
etc., I'd be interested in hearing from you.  If you'll respond via email,
I'll summarize for the net.

Dave Fisher
fisher@lyra.hac.com
From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Thumper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Mac volume
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:45:35 GMT
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Amos Tuck School
Disclaimer: I don't represent Dartmouth and Dartmouth doesn't represent me.

In <1993Jan26.205333.3280@novell.com> dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman) writes:

>But the bottom line is you should not use volumes larger
>than 2 Gig. if Macintoshes are to mount and write to that volume.  I personally
>wouldn't use sizes greater than 1.3 Gig. as I have seen troubles on (AFP) vol-
>umes of that size too.

If you're going to use large volumes (above 200MB really) you also need to
take care with the memory partition of the System 6 Finder. The default
setting of 160K is easily outclassed if there are too many items on the
root level of such network volumes. I recommend boosting the partition to
512K or so if you're going to be dealing with network volumes that could
have more than 50 or so items in any given directory.

System 7 manages this situation just fine without any help.

-Geoff
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From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Sunbird a la 400ci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Drivers for 3c503
Date: 25 Jan 93 03:58:43 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.
X-Disclaimer: This article was posted by a user at Ericsson.
              Any opinions expressed are strictly those of the
              user and not necessarily those of Ericsson.


Looking for drivers for 3c503, as recent as possible.  Does anyone know if 
these have been updated in the last 3 years?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: hau@lesti.hut.fi (Mika Hautaniemi)
Subject: Re: NW 3.11 can't find Shiva Fast Path 5
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Distribution: comp
Date: 25 Jan 93 23:26:51

In article <HAU.93Jan18130525@lesti.hut.fi> hau@lesti.hut.fi (Mika Hautaniemi) writes:

> 	As the subject says, our NetWare 3.11 with NW for Mac 3.01
> 	can't find our Shiva Fast Path 5.
> 	The server has SMC's EtherCard Plus Elite32, ie. EISA
> 	card and the lan driver is smce32 v 1.10 (911014). 

	Seems like SMC's drivers are buggy. I replaced SMC's
	card with NE-2000, and now everything works. Atcon's
	atlookup finds Shiva, and all zones behind it.

	Does anyone 
	a) have newer drivers, or 
	b) know if SMC has anonymous ftp somewhere, or
	c) some other place to look for drivers.

	Thank's for your help,

		mika
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas)
Subject: Re: UnixWare
Organization: Gordian; Costa Mesa, CA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:18:10 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.232209.16851@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, altman@cs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman) writes:
> Thomas Wieske (thw@mcshh.Hanse.DE) wrote:
> : Sorry, no. I looking in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin (ls -l f* t*), i can't
> : find ftp, telnet etc.
> : Is this not includet in Personal Edition from UnixWare?
> : 
> TCP/IP support is an optional package for UnixWare.
> Don't know the exact pricing structure.

  And this is the Unix of the future? Gary Heston is right:
:-( just isn't enough here.
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From: ccsjaas@gdr.bath.ac.uk (Julian Sims)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Help with restrictions
Date: 22 Jan 93 12:16:36 GMT
Organization: Bath University Computing Services, UK

Could someone please send me a quick answer to this one.  I want to actually
restrict your average user on a 3.11 Network from access to running things like
pconsole and syscon and similar files.  What is the easiest method of providing
them with "bad command or filename" when they attempt this, obviously still
keeping it available for supervisor and trusted users.

I have not got into much file/directory masking in the past.

Thanks in advance.

J.Sims.


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From: villalj@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (John Villalovos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Windows & Novell 3.11 (getting it working)
Date: 27 Jan 93 00:19:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: flop.1k4keuINN10i
Organization: Oregon State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: xanth.cs.orst.edu

In article <1993Jan26.200307.18587@black.ox.ac.uk> wa95003@oxford.ac.uk (Martin J Bligh) writes:
>I am trying to get windows running under Novell 3.11
>
>(1) Different machines on the net have different video cards, etc. I
>thus need to autodetect the chipset (which I will probably write a
>small program in C to do), and then autoconfigure the .ini files
>apropriately. Any user should be able to use any workstation, and I
>don't want to end up having about 3 sets of windows files for each
>user, one for each chipset.
>The only solution that I can think of is to automatically build
>win.ini, etc. when the user goes into windows. This would involve
>assembling from 3 bits:

Just thought I'd let you know.  The information on the video cards is kept
in the system.ini file.  The SYSTEM.INI file holds all the information about
the hardware.  So you will need to have a separate SYSTEM.INI file for each
unique configuration of computers that you have.  You could either keep a copy
of this file on the local hard drive or put it in a network directory.  I use
the second method.  To do that you will need to be able to uniquely identify
your computer.  If you can't figure out that part feel free to write me back.

Later,
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail
From: bryanvv@netcom.com (Bryan Van Vliet)
Subject: cc:Mail SMTP Gateway and UUCP Bang Paths
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:28:06 GMT

I have the cc:Mail STMP gateway 1.3 connecting our cc:Mail database with
a Sun SPARCstation running sendmail that uses UUNET as its smartuucp mailer.
The SMTP gateway works fine with one exception: it cannot handle bang paths
(i.e., uunet!hostname!user) when sending and (more importantly) replying 
to messages. The gateway just throws the message away without any warning.

Has anyone figured out a solution to this? Is there a reasonable change I
can make to sendmail.cf to handle this?

Thanks.

Bryan Van Vliet
bryanvv@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Server Time (Summary)
From: rmt@dstos3.dsto.gov.au (Russell Thamm)
Date: 26 Jan 93 09:32:01 CST
Organization: DSTOS

Thanks to all those who replied to my previous request. I thought I'd 
summarise the replies I received for anyone interested.

1. In the latest NOVELL patches 311ptc.zip, there is an NLM called SYNCTIME. 
This periodically syncs the server time to the hardware clock. If your 
hardware clock is accurate but the server loses time, this is what you need.

2. A set of NLMs called TM (Time Master) and TS (Time Slave) allow one 
Netware server to act as a Time Server for other file servers. This is 
shareware. Look for TIM_SY.ZIP. It is apparently on splicer.cba.hawaii.edu 
but I got it off tribble.missouri.edu in directory pub. 

3. A PD NLM called RDATE will set the time from a UNIX timeserver. You will 
need TCPIP loaded to use this NLM. It uses the Netware TIMEZONE setting. 
According to the manual, this TIMEZONE setting appears to support integral 
hours only and thus would appear to be useless to anyone who lives in a time 
zone that is not an integral number of hours away from GMT (eg South 
Australia and Afghanistan). 

If I am wrong about the Netware TIMEZONE setting, I would like to know. If I 
am right, perhaps NOVELL would like to remedy this shortcoming. I doubt that 
there are many NOVELL networks in Afghanistan but there are a fair number in 
South Australia. 

Thanks again to all those who responded.
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From: rcosby@bcm.tmc.edu (Randy C. Cosby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Token Ring to 10BASET connection
Date: 27 Jan 1993 14:28:09 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
NNTP-Posting-Host: bcm.tmc.edu
Summary: Re: Token Ring to 10 BaseT

In article <kolar.728117249@spot.Colorado.EDU>, kolar@spot.Colorado.EDU (Jennifer Lynn Kolar) writes:
> 	Is there any such ethernet controller that can use existing
> IBM T1 token ring cabling? I would be suprised to find no such card...
> Any information greatly appreciated.
> 
> -J


If you mean... (I'm no Token Ring guru) Shielded twisted pair cable..
Ethernet works fine over it... if not, I dunno what to tell you....

Randy Cosby
Network Manager
Texas Children's Hospital







Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,bit.listserv.novell
From: chrisc@ramrod.lmt.mn.org (Chris Cox)
Subject: Re: IP Tunnel loses connection
Summary: IP Tunnel loses connection
Keywords: IP tunnel
Organization: LaserMaster Technologies, Minneapolis, MN  USA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:44:45 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.223343.15158@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mschramm@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael W Schramm) writes:
>From: mschramm@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael W Schramm)
>Subject: IP Tunnel loses connection

>Here on the OSU campus I have two servers about one mile apart.  Brief diagram:

>     Server A===>Karl Bridge====>Building Router=====SONNET===|
>                                                              |
>                          Server B<======Building Router<=====|

>Connection cleared due to a communications or station failure.
>after about 20 minutes (just about the time watchdog sends its first packet).


Do you have any filtre's enabled on your KarlBridge that could be preventing 
watchdog's being received from one or the other file server?

Chris

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