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From: johnk@cs.utexas.edu (John Knutson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Impossible PSERVER problem...
Date: 8 Nov 1992 00:10:45 -0600
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
Distribution: world
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I'm trying to set up a print server in a lab.  We'd like to put a
plotter on the print server as well.  It works, although there's a bit
of a problem.  The plotters we're using are IBM Color Plotters,
(really just HP plotters with an IBM label)..  The problem is that
these plotters don't have a sheet feeder of any kind, ie, you have to
load in the paper by hand.  Which means, of course, that if more than
one person submitted a job at any given time, the plotter would just
keep on happily plotting over the previous job...

I was wondering if there was a way to work around this little "hazard"
with a minimum amount of fuss.  I don't see any HPGL command in the
manuals to eject the paper, or disable the plotter...



We do have an old HP (genuine) 7221S plotter, however, it doesn't use
HPGL, and it needs servicing (the self-diagnostics indicate a
circuitry problem).  The good news is that it DOES have a sheet
feeding mechanism, as well as a really nifty cutter that'll cut the
paper automatically.  This'll probably have to be the other
possibility/solution.  Though since most of our software uses HPGL,
a (reasonable) solution would be preferable.  (getting 'em *both*
working would be grand)


If anyone out there has any useful suggestions, I'd appreciate hearing
from you...


Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: gwalsh@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Gerald J. Walsh)
Subject: FTP to NetWare server = what directory?
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 06:01:54 GMT

Hello...

I've discovered that when I ftp to my NetWare server (using my account, not
a guest account) I am dropped into the SYS:\ directory, rather than my
home directory.  I expected to be placed in my home directory (from my
UNIX experience with ftp).

Does anyone know how to define the directory that the ftp server (on the
NetWare server) will drop a user into?

Thanks for any help!


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From: ctoomey@ccvax.ucd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Set-user-id programs in Novell??
Date: 5 Nov 92 14:25:50 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

In article <1992Nov3.232245.17268@tamsun.tamu.edu>, carlb@tamsun.tamu.edu (Carl Brown) writes:
> I have a program I wrote for Novell (PC) that manipulates the files
> in a certain directory.  To get it to work, I had to give the users
> rights to that directory.  Is there any way that I can give the program
> rights to that directory, give the users rights to run the program, but
> otherwise deny the users rights to that directory (What is called a
> set-uid file in Unix)?
> 
> Thanks for any advice. 
> 
> -Carl 
> ---
> Carl Brown  /  carlb@tamu.edu  /  409 845-0808  /  Texas A&M University

I a word, no...

NetWare (well, at a very base level) provides file services, print services
etc. to a DOS/Mac (etc.) client, and acts as a FILESERVER; unlike UNIX, where 
user processes are under control of OS, the NetWare OS simply (not a good word
that, simply :-D ) conducts transactions with clients via NCP, NFS etc. etc.
The NetWare OS has no knowlege of the processes running on the client machines,
nor does it need to.

The only way to provide such 'SUID' functionality is to have the process that
manipulates the files etc. run as a process on the server; as an NLM under
NetWare 3.x, or a VAP under NetWare 2.x, and have the clients communicate with
the server based process, which can validate their actions.

I have little knowlege of record managers/database engines that run as NLMs
etc., such as Btrieve, Oracle SQL Server etc. etc.,  but perhaps something
along these lines might be what you are looking for.

Hope this helps,

		- Colm -
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam)
Subject: Re: Upgrade from 386/33Mhz/4 megs ram... Useful?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 21:45:36 GMT

beh@po.CWRU.Edu (Bob E. Hetzel) writes:


>Where I work we have a Novell version 2.xx server with 4megs
>ram on an approx 10 user novell network.  Primary server use
>is for a Borland Paradox database, some tables having as many
>as 16,000 records.  
>1) Would upgrading to a 486 improve performance a lot?
>   due to the application execution being primarily on the
>   client I suspect it would not, but I'm looking for info.
No!  


>2) Also, would an upgrade to 8 megs of ram or more provide a more
>   significant performance enhancement?
Yes!  More disk cache! 4M is not nearly enuff for a server
especially one which is serving a huge database.

>Short of going EISA or local bus with the disk drive, what 
>suggestions might you have for improving performance?
>I'm not looking for "i guess it would", but hoping those that
>who know of the novell netware internals, or those who have
>actually noticed improvements along this line.
>We already have a fairly fast SCSI disk drive in the server.

The Memory will make a large(very) large difference.  You might
check to see if you NIC is a bottleneck.  Upgrading to a new
16bit card(maybe coprocessed) might give you a boost.  Upgrade
to 3.11, it's memory usage is much better as is it's fault tolerance.
Besides 3.11 should be coming down in price with 4.0 around the corner,
right??
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From: Morgan@icarus.curtin.edu.au (Bruce Morgan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: NW4Mac and Dayna's Etherprint box - problems
Keywords: ATPS, Dayna, LaserWriter
Date: 6 Nov 92 01:35:00 GMT
Organization: Computing Centre, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia

I am having problems printing using a NetWare 3.11 server running NW4Mac
3.011.  In a particular area on campus there are three print devices - a 
LaserWriter NT, a Personal LaserWriter NT and a Personal LaserWriter all
attached by their localtalk port to a Dayna EtherPrint Box.  No localtalk 
is available as this particular network is all ethernet.

The NetWare Server running the ATPS is three hops away across cisco routers.
The Queue for the LaserWriter NT is fine and prints well.  However both the 
Personal LaserWriter NT and Personal LaserWriter cannot be seen from the 
Appletalk router.  I can pass "Echo" packets to the Personal LaserWriter NT 
but I cannot see the device named from the NetWare router.  Using Interpoll 
on the Macintosh in a net 3 hops away I can send and receive both "Echo" 
and "Printer Status" Packets, and even successfully print from the Mac.

Unfortunately because NetWare cannot see the device (it can echo packets 
to the node though) I can't establish a queue for DOS users.  I took the 
NetWare server into the nework and then all works fine - the NetWare 
router can see it on the same net.

Anyone got any ideas as to what is happening - why it seems NetWare ATPS 
is timing out before establishing a connection over more than a hop with 
this combination of Personal LaserWriter NT and Dayna.  As I said the 
earlier model LaserWriter NT gives no problems at all.

Thanks in advance

Bruce
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From: bheagney@amiganet.chi.il.us (Brian Heagney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: installing 3.11 on IBM PS/2 Model57
Date: 5 Nov 92 00:46:49 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

Is NETWIRE for CNE's only, or is it open to SOON-TO-BE CNE's, or students, or
what?

Please E-MAIL at # where I can call NET-WIRE...thanks!

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From: U36940@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Dosshell 5.0 Task Swapper
Date: 5 Nov 92 10:07:13 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

I am trying to implement using the DOS 5.0 Dosshell Task Swapper on
a Novell Netware 3.11. Has anyone tried this? If they have, how do go
about setting this up. Thanx
                                              :)
                                              HB
From: peterh@netcom.com (Peter John Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: X-Gate/Charon: a cheap SMTP to MHS gateway
Date: 6 Nov 92 08:07:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Nov6.080740.18985
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Recently I completed my installation of a (Novell NetWare) MHS to (UNIX)
SMTP email gateway using the public-distribution gateway program Charon
(v 3.4) and the shareware product X-Gate.

It works pretty well, and I've gotten some requests for a summary, but
it's 187 lines long.  So, if you're interested, I'll email it to you.

============================================================================
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: A.Grant@ucs.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
Subject: Re: Hack.exe
Organization: University of Cambridge
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:10:50 GMT

In article <qa#@byu.edu> sson@bones.caedm.byu.edu (Stacey Son) writes:
>administrator and his tools.  However, since Novell Netware is not as
>"open" as other systems novell system adminstrators don't have the
>tools (except for SECURITY.EXE) to know how secure their system is.

Indeed. I've worked on various mainframe systems (MVS, CMS, TOPS-20 etc.)
and NetWare is less 'open' than any of them. Basically you just can't find
out how it works unless you become a 'developer'. I can't even ask our
local spooks about NetWare security, as the only places where it is 
discussed is in the closed walls of Novell (and hacker bulletin boards, of
course). Come on, Novell, help us to do our job!

p.s. heard from a CNI: "Netware is what is called an 'open system'. That
means you can buy NLMs from other vendors, not just Novell."
From: mfero@carson.u.washington.edu (Dennis Fero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Lost Hard Drive Capacity
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:46:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov5.234618.18077
Followup-To: mfero@u.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

I have mirrored 320 mb hard drives on my IBM 80 Novell server (v 3.11). Using  
chkvol I have some 290 mb of files on board but XTree & Dos Shell both show    
less than 100 mb of files with only 15 mb of free drive space. 

I haven't been able to use vrepair because I only have one volume and dismount-
ing the volume downs the server. Before I go to the trouble of reformatting and 
starting over, I'd like to know if anyone has a clue as to how to fix this.

Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: ingham@nodecg.ncc.telecomwa.oz.au (bruce ingham 4206700)
Subject: ODI & Windows (VODI.386)
Organization: Network Computer Centre
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:28:39 GMT


	I have a dos based aplication that users ODI drivers.
	I wan to run it in Windows and therefore need a VIRTUAL
	ODI driver for 386 (VODI.386). 
	
	Has anyone written such a thing and is it avialable 
	on the net???
	
	Thanks.


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Engineering Computer Centre             Fax:   +61 9 4207585
3rd Floor Telecom Centre                Email: ingham@telecomwa.oz
80 Stirling Street, Perth
Western Australia 6000
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: ntprlr@eskimo.celestial.com (NightProwler)
Subject: Re: Functions Performed By Netware.drv Under Windows?
Organization: Ghost in the Shell
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 01:46:20 GMT

Mike Ching (ching@angelo.amd.com) wrote:
: 
: (...) One of the problems of peer-to-peer
: networking is that there isn't a server with huge disks.
: 

Yeah, only workstations with huge disks.  ;)
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Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Thursday, 12 Nov 1992 21:56:00 MST
From: Dr. David Dodell <ATW1H@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: How to FAX?

I believe a company called SofNet makes a product to do this.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: jo@rrz.de (Jochen Magnus)
Subject: Semaphore, NetWare-Programming
Keywords: FileServerServices, API4DOS, FCONSOLE
Organization: Rhein-Rechenzentrum GmbH, Koblenz, Germany
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 15:34:39 GMT


Hi,

I m using NetWare-Semaphores for synchronizing system-resources. THIS works  
very well, but I have problems to control the semaphores with the DOS-API-Calls  
'getConnectionsSemaphore  and  getSemaphoreInformation . I get always an error  
251, which is a very general error from Novell.

From the past I know that several calls, come under the chapter  
 FileServerServices , are not yet supported under NetWare 3.x-versions. Is this  
still true?

Another problem: Under Netware 2.x it was possible to control the semaphores  
with FCONSOLE, but this option is not availiable in 3.x. 

Some hints?
jo. 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From:  ()
Subject: Re: Problem putting Mac items in trash on server drive
Followup-To: comp.sys.novell
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation; El Segundo, CA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:44:37 GMT

This is a problem that has come on the scene with system 7.  I have NW286
and am running the Mac VAP.  In the NW286 world if you give all users all
rights to a hidden folder called networktrash you will eliminate the delete
file warning dialog box.  However, you will then end up with hundreds of
empty trash folders under the main networktrash folder.  I assume that each
of these empty "sub"trash folders are attempting to maintain a delete
record for each user.  This system does not seem to work (for NW286
anyway).  I recommend not trying to allow users to recover deleted files
off of server volumes.  Once they trash the file, it is gone.



In article <1992Nov9.165741.19027@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>,
fod@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Frank O'Donnell) wrote:
> 
> We have several Mac users on our NW 3.11 network under NW4Mac
> 3.011.  When they try to take an item from a folder on the
> network drive and put it in the trash, a box comes up that says
> the item may not be left in the trash, do they want to delete it
> immediately?
> 
> It's evidently a rights problem, because when we log on as
> supervisor from a Mac the problem goes away.  In addition to the
> folders the Mac users work with, I have tried adding the
> directories DELETED.SAV and DESKTOP.AFP to the list of
> directories in which they have SRWCEMF rights, but this hasn't
> fixed it.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> Frank
> frank@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: slade@samoyed.wrc.xerox.com (Mike Slade)
Subject: Novell to Sun printing
Followup-To: comp.sys.novell 
Keywords: printing, unix
Reply-To: slade.wbst128@xerox.com
Organization: xerox
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:59:20 GMT

A question which wasn't quite answered in the recent FAQ (at least maybe
I didn't understand the answer if it was there!) for a newcomer, to be,
to Novell 3.11:

	We have a large Unix system with many printers on our SunOS boxes. Can
we access our Unix printers from our Novell client workstations via our
Novell server with standard 3.11? 

	If not, what additional software is needed and where can we get it?

	Note that we don't need to print from Unix to Novell.
thanks

Michael Slade
slade.wbst128@xerox.com


PS. Please reply to me directly since I do get to read this newsgroup
regularly.

thanks again, 
mls


Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: jwh@citi.umich.edu (Jim Howe)
Subject: Netware for AIX/6000
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 15:41:40 EST
Organization: IFS Project, University of Michigan
Reply-To: jwh@citi.umich.edu


Is there anybody out there who is using Netware for
the RS/6000?  I'm having some trouble getting ours
working and would like to know if there is anyone
that I can ask questions of.  Thanks.


James W. Howe                  internet: jwh@citi.umich.edu
University of Michigan             uucp: uunet!mailrus!citi.umich.edu!jwh
Ann Arbor, MI   48103-4943
From: rob@nike.ct.louisville.edu (Rob Miracle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Xerox Printer Problem
Date: 6 Nov 92 14:03:38 GMT
Organization: Information Technology, University of Louisville

Has anyone out there had any success connecting a Xerox 4235 printer to a PC
running RPRINTER.EXE (1.21). All we are able to print is 4 byte increments of
a job. Thanks.

Rob
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: biloggen@cs.few.eur.nl (R.P. Loggen)
Subject: Help: Filedates on novell 3.10 server going crazy!!!
Organization: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:11:14 GMT

Help!

We are experiencing very strange things.
A great number of files are being dated with the stranges dates..
Off course, getting files from the roaring twenties is fun :-) but
outdated files could mess up our work here :-(.

Any hints? We checked for virusses, but none has been found.
What is happening?????

Desperate,
Roeland Loggen

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: anonymous@postman.hsn.no
Subject: Hack.exe
Organization: Nordland College
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:43:47 GMT

Hi!!

A quite weird wish...
Could someone supply me with the hack.exe file (possibly the source-code),
or an ftp-site where I can find it.........

/norway
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: biloggen@cs.few.eur.nl (R.P. Loggen)
Subject: Re: Nodes not connecting to the 3.11 server
Keywords: connecting
Organization: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 12:27:03 GMT

Pressley@vxc.uncwil.edu (Mike Pressley) writes:

>We just bought NW 3.11 on the educational (no mauals) deal. I though I
>would give it a shot before we invested in a $150 set of manuals. Being the
>experienced NW 2.0a-2.2 guru that I think I am, I thought there would be
>no problem loading and running 3.11. Well after one day of playing and
>learning, I had the drive formatted and everything loaded, Now I can load
>and unload NLMs with the best of them. There is only one minor
>problem?? The nodes will not communicate with the fileserver, the FS will
>receive packets, but I cannot get it to send them out. I have tried Western
>Digital ethernet cards, SMC cards and even a 3COM 505 card with no
>luck. I have the exact same problem on each card. There is probably just
>some little trick that I am not doing, and maybe someone has crossed this
>bridge before. 

>Note 1:
>I am not sure if the fact that IPX packets are on the same segment makes
>a difference, even though I don't have the FS configured for them????  

>Note 2:
>The following is a copy of the setup.ncf and autoexec.ncf, as you can see
>I am just loading the bare necessities. I THINK???

>      **** setup.ncf ****
>   load ISADISK port=1F0 int=E 

>      **** autoexec.ncf ****
>   FILE SERVER NAME ACS_MASTER
>   IPX INTERNAL NET 5
>   LOAD 3C505 PORT=300 INT=9 DMA=6 FRAME=ETHERNET_802.3

>I would appreciate any help anyone has??? Thanks in Advance!!

After you load the network-interface driver you have to bind
you communication-protocol to the card:

BIND IPX TO 3C505 NET=<some nr>

Hope this helps...

Roeland Loggen
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: mpiet@is.morgan.com (Mark Pietrasanta)
Subject: Re: Problems with LSL, WDPLUS, etc...
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Company, Inc.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:31:26 GMT

|> In article <1chcomINN790@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>, swartzjh@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU writes...
|> >I am trying to get the LSL, WDPLUS, etc drivers to work so we can use
|> >telnet/ftp on our system.  I am loading the driver as follows.
|> >LSL
|> >WDPLUS
|> >IPXODI D
|> >XMSNETX /ps=EE /c=c:\net\net.cfg
|> >ODIPKT 1 96
|> > 
|> >When you turn the workstation on, it says it cannot find a file server.
|> >If you reboot (ctrl-alt-del), it runs fine.  It finds the file server, and
|> >ftp and telnet work great.  It is only when the computer is first powered 
|> 

I have run into this problem periodically, and the common reason always
seems to be that the memory address of the card does not match the NET.CFG
setting (and perhaps the QEMM Exclude statement if you have one).

I have never seen this on a PS/2, only ISA/EISA machines.  On PS/2's make
sure _not_ to specify address etc. in the NET.CFG.

Have you tried the new SMCPLUS driver (instead of the WDPLUS)?  My impression
was that this should support most of the WD boards (maybe not the really old
ones, though).

Mark Pietrasanta - mpiet@is.morgan.com
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From: Wayne.Wilson@med.umich.edu (Wayne.Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Access Server Upgrades
Followup-To: comp.sys.novell
Date: 11 Nov 1992 13:27:20 GMT
Organization: Univesity of Michigan Medical Center
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: wilson.itn.med.umich.edu

In article <1dpsnaINNol4@golem.wcc.govt.nz>, cooke_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
wrote:
> 
> I saw recently a reference to a NAS upgrade to 1.23, available via FTP.
> 
> Does anybody out there know the filename on the Novell FTP site? I can't
> see any mention of it in the FORUM.DOS filelist.
> 
> Thanks.........

  Most likely that reference was by me and is the result of my faulty
memory.  The actual upgrade we have installed is 1.22 and is available in
library 09 as ptf311.zip.  My apologies for wasting your time

Wayne D. Wilson
Asst. Dir. 
Health Sciences Information & Networking
University of Michigan Medical Center
Wayne.Wilson@med.umich.edu