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From: mcollins@db (Marty Collins)
Subject: Re: PC-NFS with Novell 3.11 - How?
Organization: Novell, Inc.
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:52:11 GMT

joe@eng3.sci.com (Joe LaRocque) writes:
: Help!
: 
: We are using PC-NFS Version 3.5 (I know that we need to upgrade...) and we
: are mounting resources from our Consensys SVR4 server without any problems.
: The problem is that once we have the NFS loaded on the PC we can't get a
: dual connection from the PC to the SVR4 server and the Novell server.

Try the odinsup program available from Compuserve/netwire.
It will allow you to use Ndis applications ontop of ODI drivers. This would
give you Pc-NFS and Netware connectivity at the same time. It does require
that there is an ODI driver for the lan card you are using.

The file is DOSUP5.ZIP and contains the ODISNP.ZIP file with
documentation.

: 
: Is there a Clarkson tool that will allow us to be logged into the Novell and
: still be able mount resources from our SVR4 server?  Where can I get it, them?
: 
: Appreciate the assist.
: 
: Joe La Rocque
: SCI
: Huntsville, AL
: 

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From: markwi@eram.esi.COM.AU (Mark Wilton)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Lotus (file locking) problems
Date: 11 Nov 92 01:30:51 GMT
Organization: Pacific ESI, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

In article <1992Nov4.231212.15457@wuecl.wustl.edu> dale@manet.wustl.edu writes:
|In article <1992Nov4.165813.12620@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>  
|jgotobed@lpl.arizona.edu (Joe Gotobed x4549) writes:
|> .....
|> I am having a real problem getting lotus 123 V2.3 allowing users
|> to share files on our network drive.  What happens is that only one
|> user is allowed to open a file.  After that, the only person that 
|> lotus allows to open that file is the original creator or first person
|> who opened it up.  The permissions don't matter.  There seems to be a
|> conflict with the lock manager in PCNFS and the reservations in Lotus.
|> We cannot use lotus on the network until this problem is resolved and
|> lotus couldn't give us any answer.  Can you place a call to sun or do
|> you know anyone else that is using PCNFS with lotus that might be able
|> to help us?  Thanks.  
|> ......
|
|I had the same problem. Turns out that it's lockd. Luckily we use  
|Beame&Whiteside NFS so I was able to run bwnfsd which superceeds lockd (if  
|your nfs package knows how to use it!) I've heard there is a new lockd  
|available.
|
We have problems with Lotus 123 V3.1+ on a MIPS under RISCOS that could be
related, but when we tried it on a SUN under 4.1.2, after applying the lockd
patches that came with PCNFS 4.0, we had no problems at all.  I agree your
problem seems related to the lockd.  Have you applied the patches?

Our problem on the MIPS persists.  We have mounted the data file drive with
noshare so it won't use the lockd, but we still get an error message when
someone with the same GID but a different UID tries to replace the file.
It gives a "Directory Update Error".  Unfortunately we can't apply SUN's
patches to this lockd. Anyone help?????

Mark Wilton    Ph: +61 2 906-3377    Fx: +61 2 906-3468
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: ksundar@hubcap.clemson.edu (Komal Sundaram)
Subject: Help with NFS file handles
Keywords: BFS, file handle
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 22:17:18 GMT

Please help me!.

I am trying to map NFS file handles to file names on the NFS server.
A program called "showfh" exists but it needs eight parameters and 
there is no documentation on what these parameters are?  Can any
NFS gurus help?

Also, is there any other piece of software that maps NFS file handles to
file names?

Thanks

Komal Sundaram

ksundar@hubcap.clemson.edu
From: geoff@tyger.Eng.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: wierd uid src code in pcnfsd v2
Date: 11 Nov 1992 13:48:15 GMT
Organization: SunSelect
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Quoth curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806) (in <1992Nov10.160421.13438@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>):
#what is the deal w/ this routine?
#y is it unreasonable to have a uid outside of the range 101-60002?
#
#on aix for example, uid's are LONG, so they can go up to 4gazillion
#or whatever.  what's the deal?
#

Thanks, Curt. To correct this, add 

#include <limits.h>

at the top of the file, and replace 60002 with UID_MAX.

Now, on Solaris 1 and Solaris 2, UID_MAX is explicitly
defined as 60002. What is it on AIX? On Ultrix?

Geoff
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: bambi@bu.oz.au (David J. Hughes)
Subject: Re: Apparent bug with DOS 5 XCOPY.EXE and PC-NFS
Keywords: xcopy dos nfs
Organization: ITS, Bond University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 04:54:12 GMT

roff@felon.icsl.ucla.edu (David Roff) writes:

>We've discovered an apparent bug involving the interaction of DOS 5.0's 
>XCOPY command and PC-NFS.  When running a batch file containing several
>XCOPY statements in succession, copying files from a local hard disk to
>a network drive, DOS will occasionally report it can't find selected files.
>Issuing the same XCOPY statements via command line, however, works fine.
>Moreover, using COPY instead also works.  Is this a well known bug?  Any
>fixes?

If you are using XCOPY to do large recursive copies then you will often
run into problems (not sure if this is the case as the original posting
doesn't contain many details).  The cause of this is the redirector used
to access a remote volume often runs out of internal buffers if the
recursion is too deep.

If that's the case then you're on your own.  I had that problem a while
back using some disk mirroring code I wrote and the answer from the
vendor was "try the new version".  I don't need to say that the problem
didn't go away although we have found one PC on campus on which the
program works.  Try and figure that one out.


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From: kupec@agouron.com (John W. Kupec)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: NFS over T1 lines
Date: 13 Nov 92 19:13:43 GMT
Organization: Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Anyone care to share their experiences with NFS over T1?  I have
a remote site at which I _really_ would prefer not to duplicate data.

Specifically, most of the shared data will be Insight & Quanta image files
(molecular modelling data).  File sizes range from between a few Kb up to maybe
500Kb.  Some of the images may already be in a compressed format, I'm not sure.

Have you done it?  Is it worth doing? What hardware are you using? 
Anyone used the Magnalink High Speed Compression Bridge?

-- 

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Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
San Diego, CA  92121 (619) 622-3040
From: kubs@dsuvax.dsu.edu (S. Kub)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PC-NFS printing and PageMaker 4.0 (Windows 3.1)
Date: 9 Nov 92 03:14:40 GMT
Organization: Dakota State University, Madison, SD

Hi everybody -

Recently I upgraded our NIS servers to version 2 of the rpc.pcnfsd
daemon that came with our upgrades of version 4 of PC-NFS.  Now, I have
a problem.  Under version 1 of the daemon we had no problems with
verifying user logins from the PC's.  Now, when a user trys to log into
the network, they are unable to do so because of authentication error.
It appears that the daemon is not resolving their password correctly.
But the real kicker to this is that when I log into the network from a
PC using PC-NFS as root or sysadm - I have no problem!! Any other user,
including several other privledged accounts that we have created, can not
log in but root and sysadm have no problems!!  Any ideas?

If this is a faq or has been posted before, please excuse this use of
bandwidth, but I haven't seen either. 

The systems we are running or several 486's running MS-DOS 5.0 (I
haven't tried this under Windows yet) and a bunch of Data General
Aviions - both servers and workstations.  The OS on the DG's is DG/UX
5.4.1 - which is supposed to be SVR4 compliant.

We have no other problems with PC-NFS - we can mount drives and printers
fine, we just can't get the passwords resolved.

Any help anybody can give is *greatly* appreciated - please mail any
ideas or comments to kub@dlgeh.cr.usgs.gov.  Thanks!!

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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: ehall@cmpny.sscnet.ucla.edu (Eric Hall)
Subject: PC-NFSD for NeXTstep?
Reply-To: ehall@cmpny.sscnet.ucla.edu (Eric Hall)
Organization: Network Computing Magazine
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 03:39:57 GMT

Anybody know where one of these might be found? She's the only box in the 
bunch that doesn't have it.

Tanx


Eric Hall
Dir, East Coast Labs
Network Computing Magazine
516-562-5288
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System)
Subject: Problem with SUN's PC-NFS and SMC packet drivers.
Reply-To: P.Kay@massey.ac.nz
Organization: School of Maths & Info. Sci., Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:14:46 GMT

Can someone please tell me why I am having so much trouble running SUN's PC-NFS
on top of packet drivers on top of SMC/Western Digital ethernet cards?

If I run with the packet driver version .7.1 (filename wd8003e.com), everything
works fine.

If I run with the SMC packet driver v2.03 (filename 8003pkdr.exe), things start
going wrong.

Large files take a VERY long time to transfer away from the PC.

I've had a look at whats happening with GOBBLER, and it appears that the PC is
trying to send a UDP packet of ~8k in several ethernet frames. The frames are
sent one after another - but with a ~1 SECOND time interval between them!

This problem arose while I was trying to answer a previous question - that was
"does the wd8003e.com packet driver drive 16 bit cards with 16 bit transfers"
I assumed the 2.03 driver would and went for it, but was unsure about the .7.1
driver.

Answers to either problem would be appreciated. - thanks

Peter Kay (P.Kay@massey.ac.nz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: kubs@dsuvax.dsu.edu (S. Kub)
Subject: Re: PC-NFS printing and PageMaker 4.0 (Windows 3.1) <- OOPS!
Organization: Dakota State University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 03:23:03 GMT

Sorry for not changing the header!!
	-Steve

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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: joe@eng3.sci.com (Joe LaRocque)
Subject: PC-NFS with Novell 3.11 - How?
Reply-To: joe@eng3.sci.com (Joe LaRocque)
Organization: SCI Technology, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 20:36:10 GMT

Help!

We are using PC-NFS Version 3.5 (I know that we need to upgrade...) and we
are mounting resources from our Consensys SVR4 server without any problems.
The problem is that once we have the NFS loaded on the PC we can't get a
dual connection from the PC to the SVR4 server and the Novell server.

Is there a Clarkson tool that will allow us to be logged into the Novell and
still be able mount resources from our SVR4 server?  Where can I get it, them?

Appreciate the assist.

Joe La Rocque
SCI
Huntsville, AL

Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.unix.ultrix
From: thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
Subject: Re: Use of reserved port (on Ultrix)
Reply-To: thomas@lkg.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:12:01 GMT


In article <1992Nov9.194156.9935@di.unipi.it>, luigi@pical2.uucp (Luigi Rizzo) writes:
|>I have troubles with 386BSD in mounting a disk from a Decstation
|>(running Ultrix 4.1 for what it matters). The server keeps replying
|>
|>Bad MNT RPC: RPC: Authentication error; why = Invalid client credential
|>
|>despite the fact the stuff in /etc/exports and /etc/hosts seems ok (and
|>the server is set to avoid checking internet addresses anyway).  People
|>on the net suggested it's a problem with the use of reserved port for
|>incoming connections:  some machine expect connections to come from
|>reserved ports, and 386bsd normally uses non-reserved addresses. Now, I
|>recompiled the kernel and now connections come from ports in the range
|>1023..512, but the problem remains. Might it be that Ultrix restricts
|>even more the set of ports an NFS connection can come from ?

ULTRIX by default allows non-root mounts so it probably isn't that.  My guesses
would be that you have more than 8 groups or that your hostname/address don't
match what's returned by gethostbyaddr/gethostbyname on the ULTRIX system.
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: davew@comm.mot.com (Dave Weigand)
Subject: PC-NFSD Port to Apollo 400
Reply-To: davew@jdc.gss.mot.com
Organization: Motorola
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:26:34 GMT
Keywords: pcnfsd


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Hey,

Has anyone successfully ported pcnfsd v2 to an Apollo 400 series?  I have
obtained the latest and greatest source from the net, but since it seems
be slanted heavily towards suns I have not had much success with the 
Apollo port.


Thanks in advance,

-Dave

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From: trier@slc6.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Can you chmod 111 in a DOS NFS redirector?
Date: 11 Nov 1992 21:00:57 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
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In article <1992Nov11.170118.3527@ethome.et.iupui.edu> scott@ethome.et.iupui.edu	 writes:
>I can't speak for PCNFS, but setting the setuid bit on the executable hides
>the file when using BWNFS.  This prevents msdos from seeing it when using
>its resident commands like DIR and COPY.

Try DIR /a on DOS 5, or try any reasonable file manager like XTree, PC-Tools,
whatever.

Hiding files is not a form of copy protection.

There's no good way to do execute-only on DOS, though one can get it good
enough to foil most attackers.  There is no way I know of to do decent
copy-protection in Windows.  (According to _Undocumented Windows_, Windows
converts all WinExec() calls into normal int 21H Open and Read calls, with
no way (that I could see) for a network redirector to tell that the calls
are for execution rather than copying.)

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Network Services Engineering, IRIS/INS/Telecom    
Case Western Reserve University                   
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From: roff@felon.icsl.ucla.edu (David Roff)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Problem running successive PCNFS telnet sessions in MS Windows
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:01:46 GMT
Followup-To: comp.protocols.nfs
Organization: University of California at Los Angeles, EE Dept.

Our users who run PC-NFS (v. 4.0) telnet from withing MS Windows 3.1 discover
that initiating a second windowed telnet session (after exiting and closing
a previous one) locks their machine, requiring a reboot.  The initial session
runs fine in every respect.  Moreover, the problem occurs regardless full
screen or windowed sessions are used.  We find the same thing occures from
with Desqview, thus I suspect it has something to do with 386 virtual machine
multitasking.  Are there any patches or fixes?

-Dave
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: rod@philips.oz.au (Rod Roberts)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 03:47:19 GMT
Organization: Philips Public Telecommunications Systems, Melbourne, Australia
Subject: NDIS specification, where to find??
Summary: See Subject
Keywords: NDIS

I need some information on NDIS, especially in relation to NFS. Any
information is welcome as my knowledge of this is close to zero. ThanX
in advance.

                                                       Rod

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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: ian@unipalm.co.uk (Ian Phillipps)
Subject: Re: rpcgen compiler for DOS
Organization: Unipalm Ltd., 216 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 4WA, UK
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:39:28 GMT

krsuresh@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Suresh) writes:

>does anyone know if an rpcgen compiler is available for DOS ?
>thanks

FTP software ship one with their Development Kit. It's simply Sun's
freely-distributable code ported to DOS.

Ian
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From: geoff@tyger.Eng.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: pcnfslpd v4 locking up w/AIX server
Date: 13 Nov 92 02:24:39 GMT
Organization: SunSelect
NNTP-Posting-Host: tyger.east.sun.com

Quoth grover@ccai.clv.oh.us (grover davidson) (in <Nov1992.082953.17774@ccai.clv.oh.us>):
#The version of pcnfslpd.exe that we are currently running is 4.1.a3 and
#it has fixed the problems that we were experiencing. 

Please note that this version number is an internal development code,
and does not correspond to any particular PC-NFS release, past, present
or future. Once Grover and a couple of others have completed testing
it, we'll decide whether to create an official patch kit.

Geoff
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From: russ@deakin.OZ.AU (Russ Sharp)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: No drives in windows 3.1 file open dialoge box
Date: 11 Nov 1992 04:18:50 GMT
Organization: Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ariel.eng.deakin.oz.au

We have a CAD lab of 486PCs that will work on NFS4 and windows 3.0
but not with windows 3.1.  The drives box in the file open dialogue
box of any application is blank.  Drives shown up fine in filemanager
and at the DOS prompt.  These machines have NO local drives and the 
drives A,B,C,D are set to NONE in the CMOS setup.  All staff machines
with a floppy and hard disk work ok and use basically the same boot file.

Contacting Microsoft they say it is a problem with one of the windows
dll files when there is no local drives.  Anybody know more info or 
have a workaround (other than installing drives!!!!)
Thanks Russ
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From: geoff@tyger.Eng.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PC-NFS and Bootp
Date: 5 Nov 1992 13:56:26 GMT
Organization: SunSelect
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: tyger.east.sun.com

Quoth dan@willamette.edu (Dan Revel) (in <Bx7pzE.6DL@willamette.edu>):
#I would like to be able to use BOOTP to provide boot info (ip address,
#etc.) to our PC-NFS clients.  Right now they are RARPing, but I would
#like to be able to set up clients on a subnet that does not have a RARP
#server.  Is this possible?  Is it the 'right' approach?

Our current thinking (*not* committed product plans, please note!) is
that we'll skip BOOTP and adopt DHCP, which is a much more complete
solution. There are a couple of gotchas in the current PC-NFS code
which make it impractical for someone to plug in their own BOOTP/DHCP
module; we plan to eliminate these bugs in the next PC-NFS release and
roll out DHCP support as soon after that as practicable. Bear in mind
that DHCP is still not an RFC, though the client-server protocol seems
essentially stable. (Server-server is a different kettle of
fish.....:-)

Geoff
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From: jra@bally.com (jra)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.unix.aix
Subject: yp sick in AIX3.2?
Date: 12 Nov 92 20:57:36 GMT
Organization: Bally Systems Division - Reno, NV

i've got an rs6K 220 set to be a yp client with all the servers being
rs6K's as well. it seems that the group map completely replaces the
/etc/group file? if the client becomes unbound or is booted stand
alone, nobody can log in at all - users with entries in /etc/passwd
above the + cookie. i've pinpointed the problem to the /etc/group
file; if i remove the + from this file, valid local users can log in,
if the + is there, nobody (root) can log in - just hangs with no
password prompt and typical error about can't bind for domain. the OS
is 3.2.0 on all the systems, does this go away in 3.2.2+? is there a
ptf for 3.2.0? 

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From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: pcnfs and nlm_share
Date: 10 Nov 92 21:06:46 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin


I'm seeing a problem where a PCNFS V4 client sends an NLM_SHARE request
to a unix server.  

The server sends the GRANTED message back to the PC, but locks on the
server to this file are still happening.

In other words, the PC and the server both have the file simultaneously
locked.

That doesn't make sense does it?

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