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From: johnny@csir.co.za
Subject: Re: HELP: pdipx and novell F/S comms
Organization: CSIR
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 10:13:43 GMT
Keywords: pdipx.com

In article <cggarrat.12.0@csir.co.za> cggarrat@csir.co.za (Craig Goble-Garratt) writes:

I wrote:

>	I load the NI5210 packet driver with the -n & -w options
>	I load pdipx.com
>
>	When I loaded netx.com a received the response 
>	"File Server not found". I received this response
>	when trying to connect to a File Server (F/S) 
>	running 2.2 as well as a F/S running 3.11.
>
>NOTE:	I even tried re-generating the pdipx.com file
>	by using 'nlink.exe', the supplied sipx.obj and
>	the ipx.obj supplied with windows 3.1 but I 
>	experienced the same response as described above.
>
>CAN ANYONE OUT THERE ADVISE ME ON WHAT I MIGHT BE DOING WRONG 
>OR WHAT I CAN DO TO FIX THIS PROBLEM. PLEASE E-MAIL ME WITH 
>YOUR SUGGESTIONS. I WILL ALSO WATCH THIS GROUP FOR POSTINGS.
>

A number of people responded and suggested that I should rather use the TSR
WINPKT.COM, rather than the -w option on the packet driver. Thanks for the 
advice but... I had already tried this without any luck. However, someone 
did mention that pdipx.com does not need the packet driver to load with the 
-n option because it does the necessary conversion itself. THANKS!!! This 
was the reason why I could not get pdipx.com to work.

Yet another however, I did mention (see NOTE above) that I tried to 
regenerate the pdipx.com file to see if this would work....it does not! I 
get no response from the F/S and this is consistent whether or not I load 
the packet driver with the -n option. An unfortunate side-effect of this is 
that, if the F/S is running 3.11, then it hangs solid!!!
ANY IDEAS?

Once again, thanks to all those who offered advice. :-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT])
Subject: Re: Net drivers memory consumption
Keywords: EMS highmem
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 07:12:47 GMT

dazz@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr D.K. Woodman) writes:

>In article <79276@ut-emx.uucp> johnk@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu () writes:
>>
>>I have a need to load the netware drivers (token/ipx/netx or odi*)
>>into high memory or some such to free up conventional memory for a
>>program. (I need ~600K)  It can be done, as I know that others have
>>been able to do it.  My problem, however, is that when I load the
>>software into high memory, it doesn't work.  Actually, just having the
>>EMS driver loaded is enough to cause the netware drivers to be unable
>>to function.
>>
>>Is this just a problem with token-ring drivers?  Those drivers seem to
>>be the ones causing me problems (dxm?0*.sys or token.com; usually
>>something like "board won't initialize" or some such).
>>
>I have similar problems in that I can't run EMM386.exe as it clashes
>with the token ring card. I have tried excluding the range b000-bfff
>which I thought was the range used by the TR card but this didn't
>seem to work.

>I have not been able to find a definative reference for the above problems
>any suggestions?

Yes. I run them nearly without problems. The problems you have are 
probably memory conflicts.
If you have the Micro-Channel Token Ring cards, simply start your 
reference disk. They are fully configurable.
If they are ISA cards, then it is more difficult.

Usually an IBM  Token-Ring card needs two blocks of memory:
16 k shared RAM and 8 k ROM (You can configure the RAM size, but Novell 
recommends the 16k).
The ROM address defaults to segment CC00. It can be configured by 
dip-switches.
The RAM - Address defaults to C800. It is software-configurable - BUT
Novell's TOKEN.COM does not support this configuration. If you depend on this
opportunity, you can use the IBM Lan Support Program. These drivers 
have options for the shared RAM address - see the documentation.

Then you need proper emmexclude-statements (for windows) resp
x= statements in the emm386 line of the config.sys.
For a standard setup this would look:

(config.sys)
device=emm386.sys <other options> x=C800-CDFF

(system.ini)
[386Enh]
EMMEXCLUDE=C800-CDFF

If you have done this, you can load several drivers high. With the 
token-ring drivers my problems stopped, when I didn't load the LSL high.
Others people here have recommended other kinds of setup, though.

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr


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From: richard@chaos.frcs.alt.za (Richard Ellerbrock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Netware 3.11 server loosing LOGIN directory
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 02:34:45 GMT
Organization: FRCS mail/news uucp point

In the last two days I have had some weird things happening with
our Novell installations. In both cases the LOGIN directory on the
server just vanished. The supervisors maintained that the users were
mearly working and all of a sudden they could no longer login anymore.

The two servers were not connected in anyway. I have scanned for virii,
but found nothing. Can anybody explain this strange behaviour?

Please email suggestions.

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Richard Ellerbrock                                   richard@chaos.frcs.alt.za

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: cliffb@cjbsys.bdb.com (cliff bedore)
Subject: Re: NFS - Where to get it.
Organization: BDB Systems
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 10:58:14 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.165956.14342@novell.com> mcollins@db.novell.com (Marty Collins) writes:
>tklancar@galaxy.gov.bc.ca writes:
>: Does NFs come with novell 3.11 or is it an add on.  If so how much does it
>: cost.  We have need to lpr print jobs from a  VAX running multinet to a Novell
>: WAn and I take it we need NFS to get the LPDameon.  Is this correct.
>: 
>
>1) NFS does not come with Netware 3.11!
>2) It cost about $5k retail!
>3) If all you want is to print the you don't need NFS you could purchase
>   Flex/IP for about $2K retail.
>

or get CHARON 2.0 or 4.0 and have it for free.


>
>: Tony Klancar		The means is the end....
>: 			
>
>--
>		Why is it that we can put a man on the MOON,
>		but we can't put metal in a MICROWAVE.
>
>            |--------------------------------------------------|
>            |  Marty Collins              Product Support      |
>            |  Novell, INC.	          San Jose, CA.        |
>            |  1-800-NETWARE              mcollins @novell.com |
>	    |--------------------------------------------------|


Cliff
From: keith@novell.COM (Keith Brown)
Newsgroups: usc.list.novell,comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: sniffers and packet drivers
Date: 4 Sep 92 23:39:40 GMT
Organization: Novell San Jose Development Center

In article <1992Sep3.230016.27803@samba.oit.unc.edu> shava@hermes.oit.unc.edu (Shava Nerad Averett) writes:
>
>I don't use a sniffer,

Good show! Oops, sorry...

>but the lanalyzer will not allow you to run the
>software on top of a packet driver. The Lanz software *must* be the only
>thing talking to the board.

Actually, a good chunk of the LANalyzer code does run down on the board.
Assuming you have an EXOS 325 (the hardware component of the "traditional"
LANalyzer), there is a 286 processor and 2 megabytes of memory down
on the hardware. It runs an executive, if that's the right word, that
handles all the buffer management, and filtering and some of the statistical
analysis functionality. Packet drivers just talk to relatively "dumb"
hardware. When running the executive, the EXOS 325 is a veritable
nuclear physicist compared to most Ethernet boards and the conversations
that occur between the card and the host code occur at a much higher level.

>Loading ipx after lanz or vice versa will freeze the machine.  To load ipx 
>after lanz, you have to reboot, then reboot again to use the other.

Really? I've not had that problem myself although it is not something
I really expect to work so I don't get upset if it goes belly up on me.
Recently I've been getting into the LANalyzer for NetWare which is
a software only Network Analysis tool. It uses ODI drivers and "regular"
hardware to do it's thing. One very remarkable feature it has (that
certainly had my chin hitting the desk when I discovered it) is that
even though it has to slam the LAN Adapter into promiscuous mode to
do it's packet capturing and analysis job, both NetWare and LAN WorkPlace
keep on truckin' just like everythings normal! One minute you are watching
the LANalyzer for NetWare dashboard and all the stats being updated on
the screen and the next minute you have clicked the Windows file
manager up onto the screen and are poking around with drive F: and a minute
later you are typing characters at a UNIX system using the LAN WOrkPlace
"Host Presenter" Windows telnet client and everything just keeps
humming along. I have since evolved a (probably incorrect) theorum about how 
this is pulled off but even so, someone over in our building 6 deserves a 
serious round of applause for some criminally cunning codemanship.

Keith
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Keith Brown                                           Phone: 408-473-8308
Novell San Jose Development Center                      Fax: 408-473-8990
2180 Fortune Drive, San Jose, CA 95131                  Net: keith@novell.COM
From: schansen@amc.com (Scott Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Deleting Mac files from DOS machine.
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:25:01 GMT
Organization: Applied Microsystems, Redmond, WA

Under NetWare 2.15c running the Mac VAP what happens when
you delete Mac files from a DOS machine?  In particular, do
both the resource and data forks get cleaned-up?  If not
will 'VREPAIR' resolve the problem?

-Scott
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Applied Microsystems Corporation          BBS.....:  (206) 226-6550    
Redmond, Washington  98073                Voice...:  (206) 882-5322
From: alan@mailhub.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com (Alan Strassberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Novell active user count
Summary: restrict attach
Keywords: Novell license
Date: 8 Sep 92 18:44:56 GMT
Organization: Lockheed Santa Cruz, CA.

In article <hreihs.20.0@admin.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> hreihs@admin.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (Helmut Reihs) writes:

>We have some 5 to 20 user-license Novell 3.11 servers in our university LAN.
>Sometimes all connections to one of these servers are occupied from stations 
>which are only attached ( via loading NETx.COM), not logged in.
>Why are these attachments counted the same way as full logged in 
>connections? Is there a possibility to restrict these attachments on the 
>server side to certain station-numbers?

	Get NLICLEAR.NLM (Not-Logged-In-Clear user skulker). This
	was shipped recently as part of Netware's 3.11 update and is
	probably on one of Novell's ftp sites. This NLM clears
	inactive connections that are eating up your user count.

					alan
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman)
Subject: Re: ATPS (Appletalk Printing - Netware for Mac
Keywords: ATPS Macintosh
Organization: Novell Inc., San Jose, Califonia
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:05:24 GMT

In article <iyates.8.0@is.su.oz.au> iyates@is.su.oz.au (Ian Yates) writes:
>Seemingly a bug, but I have only found it on one server so far, so I'm not 
>ruling out some config problem.
>If you unload ATPS (which is required to reconfig printers in ATPS.CFG) it 
>now asks if you want to 'unhide' any printers and no matter what you say, 
>it sometimes crashes with the famous ABEND allover the console, 
>and it seems to crash EVERY time if you say NONE to the question.
>You have been warned! (version 3.011 NW for Mac)

Hi,

We have not seen this problem before.  Just to be sure, I checked out this 
functionality myself (the module has been extensively tested here as well) and
we did not see this problem.  Has anyone else seen this problem?  

This is the FIRST reported problem, so we are all very interested if others
have seen this.  The best way to troubleshoot this (or any other ABENT/GPPE
error) is to get the memory image dump.  So, if you are seeing this 
problem (in particular, iyates.8.0@is.su.oz.au) please get the memory image and
send it to us.  We will isolate the solution for you.  You may also want to send
us a copy of your ATPS.CFG, AUTOEXEC.NCF and STARTUP.NCF along with the other
information you send.

Let me know...

Think Peace and PLEASE V-O-T-E-VOTE!!!

Dan Seeman
Novell
Walnut Creek, Ca.
From: lewin@brokaw.lcs.mit.edu (Jonathan Lewin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Btrieve problem
Date: 11 Sep 92 01:50:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: mintaka.1992Sep11.015020.4058
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science


Hi, we've been having a major problem with Novell's Btrieve.  A magazine's
entire subscription department depends upon this problem being fixed, and 
I don't have any ideas.  Any help would be most appreciated.
 
This is a description of a long running problem with Btrieve. Programs
using Btrieve 5.0 with programs compiled from Microsoft Basic 7.0 are
running on a network of three machines using Lantastic 3.0. SHARE runs
on the server to control file access. Periodically the indexes for the Btrieve
files become corrupt. This takes any one of several forms. The most
common is the generation of a duplicate record in an index field for which
duplicates are not permitted. Another is the generation (apparently) of a
false end in the index path, so that a search through the file terminates
prematurely. Occasionally we get a record generated that cannot be
deleted, and whose presence prevents the indexing routines from working.
It seems likely that these errors occur because of a failure in the file locking,
but (of course) tech support at Novell denies that any such problem ever
occurs with Btrieve. We don't believe it's a problem with Lantastic, because
we use programs that are generally similar and compiled in the same way,
except that they do not use Btrieve for indexing, on another network, and
no similar problem has ever been seen there. Is there any known problem
with Btrieve and Lantastic and any way to take precautions to stop the
corruption of the Btrieve file?  Anyone have any ideas?  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
Subject: Re: LWP4DOS and Win 3.1
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 01:20:54 GMT
Organization: Messina Software

paulr@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:

>I have been successfully using LWP4DOS ver 4.0 under WIN 3.0, but having
>changed to WIN 3.1, I am now getting Protection Violation errors on starting
>FileExpress or Presenter. The DOS ftp or telnet work fine. I have used the 
>new drivers for ipxodi,lsl which are provided with win3.1. Any suggestions
>would be much appreciated.


In the section "[386Enh]" of your SYSTEM.INI in your windows directory
make sure there is a line:

device=vtcpip.386

if not, insert it.

Best,

Tony
From: sanchez@sd-sanchez.jsc.nasa.gov (Ralph Sanchez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: NWLite windows lockup
Keywords: Nwlite
Date: 9 Sep 1992 14:47:58 GMT
Organization: Medical Sciences Division, NASA/JSC.

I have been experiencing some NWLite/Windows lockup specifically when
a message is sent from NWLite to a user that is logged in to Windows 3.1
any suggestions out there, please respond.

THNX
Ralph

"We all get what we want, and when we have it we don't want it." RES

-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
Ralph Sanchez
NASA Johnson Space Center, Medical Sciences Division
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: lichty@anthro.utah.edu (Al Lichty)
Subject: XCONSOLE
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 14:44:24 GMT

All -

I have just finished installing a copy of NFS v1.2 on a 3.11 server
and have some questions about XCONSOLE that aren't covered in the
manuals.

I run networks in 3 different buildings - 2 have Novell servers and the
other has a cluster of Sun SPARCStations.  My office is in the building
with the suns and my desktop machine is a SPARC ELC running MIT X11R5.
XCONSOLE is a real nice treat for me because I can now at least look
at a server's console without running over to another building - this
will be especially appreciated in January.  

As it stands right now, with the right NLMs running on a 3.11 server,
I can telnet to that machine and after giving a password, I get a new
window on my screen for the Novell server console.  The top question
on my list is whether I can define some X windows defaults to apply to
this window.  There are no obvious places for specifying switches or
options in this proceedure.  The most useful item would be to be able
to assign a name to each console window and its icon.  The default
icon is a generic creature that sez "NetWare" without further
embelishment.  Since I need to be able to deal with multiple servers,
it would be highly desirable to be able to append a server name to the
icon so that I know which one is which.  I typically have at least 8
to 10 windows/icons up at any given point in time, so guessing my way
around is a pain in the neck and clutters up my screen.

Specific questions:

1) Does XCONSOLE look at ~/.Xdefaults for any of its parameters?

2) Is there any other mechanism for runtime options?  For example,
scroll bars would be great here as would be cut/paste functions.  The
X window title/icon name also fits into this category.

3) What about mouse support?  I keep finding that I am absent mindedly
clicking on menu items in the console window instead of using the
keypad arrows.  This seems like a natural extension.

4) Are there any plans for adding other menu utilities to the console?
Pconsole and syscon are the 2 that immediately come to mind that would
greatly facilitate sys admin tasks.

I would like to commend Novell for getting this far, but would love to
see some additions to the mix.

Thanks in advance for any help on these topics.

Al Lichty
Department of Anthropology
University of Utah
lichty@anthro.utah.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: unrz39@epix.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Martin Heyer)
Subject: Novell data encryption
Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 06:48:57 GMT


I'm looking for a way to encrypt data on Novell networks (not just passwords).
Is anybody aware of a software solution ?

Any hints would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
        Martin Heyer

==============================================================================
        Martin Heyer
        Regional Computing Center Erlangen
        Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
        (heyer@daphne.rrze.uni-erlangen.de)
==============================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT])
Subject: Re: Charon - Where can I find it?
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 13:05:53 GMT

sxrbs@orca.alaska.edu@raven.alaska.edu (Bob Stratton) writes:

>Can anyone tell me where to locate Charon 4.0?

omnigate.clarkson.edu  /pub/cutcp/charon
risc.ua.edu            /pub/network/pegasus
ftp.uni-kl.de          /pub/pc/novell

There are others, too.

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr

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  Universitaet Kaiserslautern,  KIT     |  S-Mail:  Postfach 3049
  Tel. 0631/205-3391                    |           D-6750 Kaiserslautern
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT])
Subject: Re: Charon 4.0, Novell 3.1, Packet Drivers
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 10:24:16 GMT

weg7953@tamuts.tamu.edu (Wallace Eugene Gibbs Jr) writes:
>I'm trying to set up a Charon 4.0 gateway between our Suns and our Novell
>3.11 filer server.  I've got a WD ethernet card in the gateway machine, and
>am trying to find packet drivers that will allow me to use IPX and Ethernet
>on the same card.  BYU's IPX for Packet Drivers (that I've found) are 
>apparently only for Novell 2.1.  Any suggestions?

Hm... I assume you already have a proper packet driver for that WD card.

You have several alternatives:
- Link the BYU .obj file with the most recent IPX stuff. That will run 
  fine with Charon.
- Use the ODIPKT driver with an appropriate WD(SMC ?) ODI driver.
- There is an IPX for packet drivers from Intel. If I remember right,
  the filename is something like INTELPD.ZIP.

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr

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  Tel. 0631/205-3391                    |           D-6750 Kaiserslautern
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From: stacyl@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Stacy Brad Lacy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: WinQVT with ODIPKT?
Date: 13 Sep 1992 11:36:39 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

Rick.Ellis@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:

>On <Sep 09 12:23> Rob Macfarlane writes:

> RM> I've been trying to get WinQVT to work using the Novell ODI drivers.  
> RM> I've  got the winpkt shim installed, but Windows just quits when I 
> RM> try to start  WINQVT.

>You have to load PKTINT.  It comes with WinQVT/net.

I have the same problem, and I am correctly loading PKTINT.  I believe
WINQVT wasn't intended to use ODI drivers.  If any one has gotten this
to work successfully, I would appreciate advice.

I have also tried using ODIPKT which is necessary for the Clarkson
TN3270/TELNET stuff to run correctly over ODI drivers.  No luck their either.


-- 

Stacy Lacy
stacyl@matt.ksu.ksu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: dazz@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr D.K. Woodman)
Subject: Netware 3.11 and server hard drives
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:46:39 GMT

A PC supplier has suggested that a server I am sourcing from him should
have either one large hard drive or two smaller hard drive of the same
capacity as NetWare 3.11 is less efficient with hard drives of dissimilar
size. 

eg. If I need approx. 1GByte of disk capacity it is better to have
    2 500MB drives rather than 1 676MB drive and 1 330MB drive.
 
Does any know if this is correct?

thanks
dazz
From: alan@mailhub.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com (Alan Strassberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Help with DAT backups/software please
Date: 8 Sep 92 18:40:50 GMT
Organization: Lockheed Santa Cruz, CA.

In article <1992Sep8.114621.93@chmeds.ac.nz> dave@chmeds.ac.nz writes:
[..]
>and Arcserve Solo v2.00, which or supplier assured us would back up both the
>Server and any workstations on the Network.

>The supplier was bending the truth it appears, as the DAT will back up the
>server O.K. but, unless I've missed the bus somewhere, it will only back up
> the workstation in which it is installed. Also I was less than impressed 

	Try Map Assist from Fresh Technology, about US$240. This
	will allow peer-peer connections and then you can backup
	a workstation (from another) with your tape. I have used this
	with ARCserve 4.0 (server version) and other tape software 
	but not	ARCserve solo but can't see any reason it shouldn't
	work.

					alan
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