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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:41:22 -0700
From:         Grant Getz <KGGXG@ASUACAD.BITNET>
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              22 Jan 1993 16:42:00 -0700 from <Shah.Khatri@ASU.EDU>

sometimes


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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:04:22 PST
From:         MA=Crist%Info_Sys%STG_IS@DSO3.DSD.TRW.COM
Subject:      NFS pros & cons

Hi all,

I believe there are a lot of UNIX knowledgable folks on this list.  So, I'd
like to pose the question:  What are the pros and cons of NFS?  We have a
group who thinks they can replace VINES with NFS and provide superior
connectivity for their PC, Mac and UNIX workstations.  I have heard there are
serious security holes in NFS.  I even read a brief document by Sun (didn't
they create NFS?) dated '89, that alluded to some security problems.  Have
all the holes been plugged?  My contention is that VINES provides a superior
connectivity platform for connecting the three platforms since PC and Mac are
already built in and NFS/UNIX can be added with VINES for SCO or NFS support
from Incognito.  The problem is that the guys running the computing
operations for this group are all old UNIX supporters.  The group is mostly
PC, with maybe 10% MAC and 5% UNIX workstations.  Seems to me the already
VINES PC majority is getting sold down the river.  Any pertinent data
gratefully appreciated.

Mike Crist
TRW
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:21:38 EST
From:         SOHIER_DANNY%CTI%ULAVAL@CAMPUS.ULAVAL.CA
Subject:      re: Vines user groups in Nordic Area?

What do you mean by nordic area ?????  If you mean the area of the Quebec
Nordiques, well yes there is one!  ABUI-QUEBEC has around 60 members and we
have a meeting every 6 weeks or so.  If you want more info just Dial
DSOHIER@CTI.ULAVAL.CA

So long,

Danny J. Sohier
Laval University
Quebec city, Canada
DSOHIER@CTI.ULAVAL.CA
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From: skb@ide.hk-r.se (Bengt-Arne Skoog)
Subject: Re: vim or mapi?
Organization: Hgskolan Karlskrona/Ronneby (HK/R)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:35:13 GMT


>Is vines mail written to the VIM or MAPI standard? there is no mention of
>either in the mail option guide.

They will support both VIM and MAPI in a future release!
###
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Phone : 46-457-71850
Fax   : 46-457-27481
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:25:12 CST
From:         Rickard=Samuelsson%IM%Ops=Sto@BANGATE.COMPAQ.COM
Subject:      re: Vines user groups in Nordic Area?

"\"Imaging Club\"" <IMAGING.CLUB%OFFICE.WANG.COM@VM1.CC.UAKRON. Wrote:
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| Would anyone know if there are any Banyan user groups
| in the Nordic Area?
|
| Tack sa mycket,
|
| Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com



        Hello there!

        Try to contact Bernt Hellqvist at BETOMA SYSTEM AB who is the
        Swedish distributor of VINES products.

        Phone: +46 8 7348200
        Fax:   +46 8 828090


        Rickard Samuelsson

        Compaq Computer Sweden AB
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 09:50:30 PST
From:         Stephane=Bourque%Eng%Incognito@TEST.ARTS.SFU.CA
Subject:      re: NFS pros & cons

Mike...

        One of the security problems with NFS is that it relies on UID/GID
        in order to grant security access rights.  This UID/GID is sent
        with every NFS requests to the NFS Server.  This assumes you have
        control over ALL UID/GIDs and you are pretty good at keeping
        intruders out of your net.

        If someone creates a UID/GID on another box and later inserts that
        box on your net, they could potentially have the same UID/GID as
        someone else and therefore be granted the same access rights. This
        is very easy to do...there is no duplicate UID/GID (equivalent of
        a StreetTalk name) check on such a net.

        There are ways to enable NFS so it is more secure...but this is not
        supported on all platforms/clients.

        What we have had to add here at Incognito is the IP on top of all
        other things.  So now you have UID/GID/IP to validate before any
        access.  That cuts down almost all security holes.

        Pros...NFS let's you give access at any level of a file system using
        the exports file.  This means that if I do not want people to access
        info on this disk, I just don't have an exports file.   But if
        you make a mistake in that file, you could be giving `carte blanche'
        to anyone on the net to get at your files!

        NFS is so nice because it is supported on so many platforms.  It is
        never as secure as VINES is.  It offers `good' security while I
        would qualify VINES as `excellent'.

        If you have any other questions about NFS, you can send them to me
        directly.

        Thanks
        Stephane Bourque
        Incognito Software Inc.
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From: jabusch@cecer.army.mil (John Jabusch)
Subject: new uploads and delays
Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:31:15 GMT

Hi, folks.  I'm back on the net.  Our Internet connection has been down
for several days, and I haven't been able to work on csus.edu to make
all the things available which have been recently uploaded.  I managed
to get them all (or almost all) available, and they are in two
primary directories:

	/pub/banyan/src
and 	/pub/banyan/banyan_info

Also, tn250.zip is in /pub/banyan/techbulletins.

I uploaded a new INDEX file in the /pub/banyan directory.  I suggest
that everyone get a new copy of this - it has all the recent files
listed.

Enjoy!

-john jabusch
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:35:03 EST
From:         Shirley Rodgers <D1SLR@AKRONVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Duplicate copies

Would anyone getting multiple copies of Banyan-l please mail to me direct
with the following information.

How you are subscribed to the list (direct or a distribution list)
Are you getting duplicates for all messages or just some.
If just some, can you determine a pattern?
Do you go through any gateway sites that you are aware of.

Shirley Rodgers
SRodgers@uakron.edu
University of Akron
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:33:10 -0300
From:         Ian.Brabham@CC.MONASH.EDU.AU
Subject:      re: Mouse driver and MESSAGES

Kess Penders,

Thanks for the info.

>3. There are two switches that you can use to load the 8.x mouse driver in
>   UMB or in EMS : to load the driver in UMB the /U switch can be used. To
>   load the driver in EMS the /E switch can be used. If you use the /E
>   switch the mouse driver will use 3.8K in low memory and 16K in EMS. If
>   you load all of the driver in low memory it will use 16.4K.

With the mouse driver revision 8.10 the /E switch does indeed work but it
is very very flakey.  I could not get the /U switch to do anything useful
although it did not complain that the switch was invalid.

With the mouse driver revision 8.20a there is now a horrid message
    "Mouse driver installed.  Parameters /U, /E, /X no longer supported."
when you try to use either the /E or /U switch.  I wonder what MicroSoft are
upto.

The initializing mouse driver is now so large that something desperatly needs
to be done like allowing it to initialize itself in low memory and copy the
small TSR part into some free UMB area.

Ian Brabham                 email: ian.brabham@cc.monash.edu.au
Micro Support Group         phone: +61 3 565 4742
Monash University           fax:   +61 3 565 4746
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:33:40 GMT
From:         idrc/G=David/S=Dores/O=IDRC_CRDI/OU=EDP_TED@MHS.ATTMAIL.COM
Subject:      re: NFS pros & cons

Didnt' realize that the other message was from you also Mike...

Aren't there some MAJOR performance problems with NFS?  I thought that I heard
from some people that performance was 'less than excellent' to say the least.

If security is a concern, I would find it difficult to believe that NFS would
provide anything close to Vanguard type security...but I've never used NFS
before...this is off the cuff here...

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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:33:40 EST
From:         R=Stoll%SysAdmin%7CG@LGGATE2.HQ.AF.MIL
Subject:      Compaq IDA-2

I just got a new Compaq SystemPro server running 4.11(5) with an IDA-2 disk
controller set up for distributed data guarding (RAID 5).  Everything seems to
work fine, but when the server boots, I get a "Can't determine fault tolerant
type for IDA" message.  I wasn't able to find anything in the docs that
addresses this.  Does anybody have any experience with this? Thanks.



SSgt Robert Stoll
7th Communications Group
The Pentagon

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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:48:41 EST
From:         Elliott Coates <coates@UMUC.UMD.EDU>
Subject:      RE: vim or mapi?

>Is vines mail written to the VIM or MAPI standard? there is no mention of
>either in the mail option guide.

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that Vines mail before Intelligent Messaging
Services was not written to either. I doubt if Intelligent Message Services
has such hooks either.

Elliott Coates
coates@umuc.umd.edu
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:52:20 +0100
From:         Manager2%Beheer%WAU_dLB01@VINES.WAU.NL
Subject: re: Mouse driver and MESSAGES

Hi Guys,

My first time on the list! Here's my 0.02$ worth about loading the Mircosoft
mouse driver in high memory :

1. As far as i know only one program can use the HMA.
2. I don't know of any switch to load the mouse driver into the HMA.
3. If you COULD load the mouse driver into HMA it would still be more efficient
   to load a part of DOS in the HMA since the mouse driver would only use 16K.
2. Probably you've confused HMA and UMA here. The documentation of Microsoft
   itself isn't very clear on this. In the doc file about the 8.x mouse driver
   they write :
   "the loadhigh or devicehigh command can be used to load the mouse driver in
    high memory."
   I guess this should read : "to load the mouse driver in the Upper Memory
   Area".
3. There are two switches that you can use to load the 8.x mouse driver in UMB
   or in EMS : to load the driver in UMB the /U switch can be used. To load
   the driver in EMS the /E switch can be used. If you use the /E switch the
   mouse driver will use 3.8K in low memory and 16K in EMS. If you load all
   of the driver in low memory it will use 16.4K.

I don't know if the driver works well when loaded in EMS. Never tried it
myself ...

Kees Penders.

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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:27:22 EST
From:         Rich=Gautier%SETA%DRC@S1.DRC.COM
Subject:      TCP Packets not moving

Have a Banyan network that will push Banyan Vines Packets (i.e. Mail/Logins,
Files, etc..) between servers, however, TCP/IP Gateways show a status of 22
(should be 23).  It won't push TCP/IP packets, even though routing is through
the same gateway it sends Internet mail to/from.   Any ideas?


                                                Rich Gautier
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From: scotth@cs.umr.edu (Scott Hayes)
Subject: SMTP mail gateway software
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:16:16 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla, Rolla, MO

I have received the SMTP mail gateway option and installed it on
a Vines 4.11(1) server.  Apparently, I need software to go with it.

Can anyone recommend software compatible with this option?
I need the software name, company name, and list price.

Please e-mail me at shayes@usgs.gov or scotth@cs.umr.edu.
I will summarize the responses received for a later post if anyone
is interested.

Thank you!
Scott Hayes
shayes@usgs.gov
scotth@cs.umr.edu
From: bgilbert@vines.colostate.edu (Brian Gilbert)
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Subject: Re: Third Hard Disk
Date: 28 Jan 93 16:55:59 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University

In article <199301281404.AA03961@sun1.tdc.uva.nl> frank=koperdraat@IC.UVA.NL writes:
>We have a server here with two 410Mb IDE drives. Yesterday we tried to add a
>third one (using the same controller). No luck, there was a problem with
>mounting the filesystem.
>
>We called our reseller, who told us that Vines only supports two harddisks.
>
>I find this hard to believe. Can someone confirm this statement, or even
>better deny this.
>
>Thanks
>
>Frank Koperdraat

	We run 2 ESDI discs and 1 SCSI disc in our server with no problem.
Two things though, one, make sure your power supply can handle the load
and two, get a different reseller!  BTW, I'm about to add another SCSI
disc giving me 3.4 Gigabyte of total disc space and the only change I've
had to make is to upgrade the power supply to a 450 watt.

Brian
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Brian Gilbert                                     Morgan Library
Vines Manager                                     Colorado State University
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:42:23 EST
From:         SOHIER_DANNY%CTI%ULAVAL@CAMPUS.ULAVAL.CA
Subject:      MAIL USERS

Hi everyone,

I'd like to field out this question I have about Banyan mail (not IMS).  We
have a 5.0(5) server with a 160 mo. HD dedicated to that one task.  Right this
minute, I'd say there is about 325 mailboxes on that service, although the
server's hard drive is only at 33% capacity, I'm wondering if it wise to have
all those users at the same place.  The reel question here is "HOW MUCH IS TOO
MUCH???"  I'd like to know about other administrators and their maximum
mailboxes's amounts.... Am I flirting with danger??   The response from the
mail program has been sluggish lately so.....


Thanks a bunch....

Danny J. Sohier
Laval University
Quebec city, Canada (It's freezing!!!!!!! -35 c)
DSOHIER@CTI.ULAVAL.CA
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Subject:      Re[2]: Kernel Mode Trap

Thanks for all responses received. The following question to ask is do the
'panics' only happen with 4.11, or do they also happen with 5.0/5.5 ?
I ask this question to see if the problems are related to the version of
software. Is 5.0 more robust, for example.

        Pat N Williams
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:03:00 EST
From:         REB100@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
Subject:      Print Servers

For those of you who have dedicated print servers:

What do you generally set the Comm Buffers at in PCCONFIG?  I'm running
4.11(5).

Also, what speed increase might I expect if I switched from XT's to 286's?

Thanks for any info.

Bob
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:58:58 EST
From:         Brian=Howard%IS%CHI@ALOHA.CHI.OHIO-STATE.EDU
Subject:      Banyan w/ Novell

Scenario: We are looking at bringing in a Novell server/network
to run an application specifically written for a Novell.
We would like to be able to have users that are currently running
on the Banyan to be able to access the Novell application.
In order to do this process, we will probably be purchasing
Banyan ENS, but also looking at running dual protocol stacks
either on a gateway platform or at the user stations.

Question: Is there anyone that is currently doing this and
if so what is the configuration (both software/hardware) ?
(rebooting the workstation and loading a different configuration
is not an option at this point)


Any advice or information would certainly be appreciated !

Brian Howard
Children's Hospital
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:55:34 EST
From:         Mike Wagner <mwagner@ROSEDALE.ORG>
Subject:      Default forwarding in SMTP

Default forwarding in SMTP
We would like to set up our Banyan SMTP gateway to by default forward all
outgoing messages to a specific address. Since the gateway doesn't
understand MX records, and we would like to do some address munging on the
way out to the Internet, this is our goal. Is there any mechanism to do
this? We want ALL messages forwarded, even those destined for machines in
the same TCP/IP domain as the gateway. Thanks for your input.

Mike Wagner
Educational Testing Service
mwagner@rosedale.org
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:06:00 EST
From:         "Gregory.Burgess" <GBURGESS@MSU.BITNET>
Subject:      SCO version of Vines

According to Jan/Feb ABUI Network News:

  "A key feature of SCO's implementation of Unix is binary compatibility
   for applications and device drivers.  Open VINES for SCO will run
   unmodified on SCO MPX."    (Page 24, Col 2, Paragragh 3)

Greg Burgess....
GBURGESS@msu.edu
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:30:27 EST
From:         Joseph=H=Prows%CorpMis@CMOAK6.MILACRON.COM
Subject:      re: lost servers

We had this same problem on a WAN connection.

We replaced an old 286 server with a 386. This was the only server at that
location.

The names of the servers were the same, but the key numbers were different. The
 new server could see all of the other servers across the WAN. However, it
could not be seen.

When the servers which did the communications were rebooted the problem
cleared up. I believe that the routing tables in the servers were the cause
of the problem.
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:02:54 PST
From:         JAMES=NEARING%50%WPNSTAC@FS.NWSCON.SEA06.NAVY.MIL
Subject:      re: lost servers

We had this problem in a LAN environment.  All our servers are in the same
room with an ethernet coax backbone connecting them.  Server A would not see
Server B, but Server B could see server A.

We could make the problem move to different servers by changing the sequence
of how the servers were connected on the coax.

Turned out to be a simple cabling problem on some PC's that were also on the
backbone.  We had some bizarre PC's where we couldn't get the coax T
connector directly onto the ethernet card.  We used a small piece of RG-58
between the T and the card.  That apparently caused timing problems all along
the segment.
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:57:15 PST
From:         MA=Crist%Info_Sys%STG_IS@DSO3.DSD.TRW.COM
Subject:      More NFS help needed

OK,

Now I have a guy who wants to be able to simultaneously run VINES and
Wollongong's Pathway (to mount NFS volumes).  He has a Cabletron E2100
adapter and currently uses the generic packet driver csipd_e.exe and VINES
Cabeleton packet driver interface.  Anybody done this before?  Thanks in
advance for any info you can provide.

Mike Crist
TRW
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