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From: ron@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Ron Prediger [Velociraptor])
Subject: Anyone noticed a bug in MAKEUSER utility (3.61) ??
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 17:46:08 GMT

We have recently installed a PC network running Novell Netware 3.11
and have noticed a somewhat annoying bug in the makeuser utility (3.61).

According to documentation,  it is possible to erase user home directories
by placing the flag "#PURGE_USER_DIRECTORY" at the beginning of the .USR
file processed by makeuser.  The problem we have encountered is that
home and mail directories will not be erased if they contain any
subdirectories.  It would be nice if makeuser could recursively erase
the entire user directory tree.

Has anyone experienced this problem ?  Is this how the makeuser utility
is intended to function or is there a patch available ? 

Thank you.

Ron Prediger,  Technologist
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Laurentian Univ., Sudbury, Canada.
e-mail:  ron@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Calendar Program on Netware
From: gurmeet@{file_server_name}.usu.edu (Gurmeet Bhatia)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:02:18 GMT
Organization: Utah State University (USU)

Does any body know of a good calender program( something like ccplus) which 
could be shared by the netware users ? Different users ought to write 
events on the same file.
Gurmeet.
(gurmeet@sysdiv.sdl.usu.edu)
From: relee@acpub.duke.edu (Robert Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Login Script Variables > DOS Environmental Variables
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:03:50 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

I'm interested in finding a way to pass a drive specifier of the type
used in Netware login scripts to a DOS environmental variable. What I
would like to do is something like the following:

DOS SET DRIVE1 = "%*1:"

to set the DOS environmental variable to DRIVE1 = F:. Unfortunately the
Netware *n: drive identifier does not seem to work like the other script
variables (such as %LOGIN_NAME, etc.). The above command simply returns
the DRIVE1 = %*1: when displayed in DOS with SET.

Am I missing something from within the script, or am I going to have to
write a DOS utility program to find out what the first Netware drive
letter is set to?

Robert Lee
relee@acpub.duke.edu
From: nazario@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Newest Novell Drivers
Date: 13 Aug 92 13:30:51 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services


> Where can I obtain the newest Novell IPX and NETX drivers - Version 3.10 or 
> Above?

The best place would be from one of the Novell supported FTP sites.
The two I know of are 137.65.12.2   and  risc.ua.edu.  Look in the
directory novlib/01 for the files dosup5.zip or odiup??.zip if you are
using ODI.


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From: bigras@mala.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: MCMenu PD v 1.520 release note
Date: 22 Aug 92 22:31:44 -0700
Organization: Malaspina College



A new version ,1.520 of MCMenu  will be available via FTP 
at MALA.BC.CA as of September 1 92  

This menu program is Public Domain and includes soruce code.

Advantages over Novell menu program:
     Uses 0K.
     Does not leave menufile open so menufile is not locked.
     Works off a hard drive, no network needed, So hard drive and network
     menus can have the same interface.
     Built in screen blanker while on the menu screen.
     Mouse support.
     Marks submenus for easy identification.
     Allows top and bottom wrap around.
     Can logout from menu.
     Can load TSRs.
     Can use environment variable 'MN' for menu name
       allowing all users to restart menu with 'MCMENU'.
     Can disable escape from menu.  
     Has hooks for remote procedure calls from other stations.
     Improved AlphaKeying  { Can you see the diference }

Differences from Novell menu:   
     No sorting of menu items, they appear in the order in file.
     Ignores Novell colour and location entries
       everything is standard colour and centred.
     Limited to 4000 lines in menu file.
     Limited to 21 items per menu 200 sub menus.



New features in MCMenu V 1.520

   Return to old menu selection option. Allows the menu to 
     re-enter at the old location { like Novells }      

   Application Logging option.  This logs the item and user
     name when programs are launched.

   Menu Reload option.  This allows the last command to be the
     end of the batch file, rather than re-running the menu.
     This improves use of the LOGOUT command and chaining
     to other menus.


Tony Bigras         BIGRAS@MALA.BC.CA

ok
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: mjw@eng.ufl.edu (Mike Wohlgemuth)
Subject: IPX routing question
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Florida
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 15:30:09 GMT

We have a campus wide network with Wellfleet routers serving as
IP and IPX routers off the campus backbone.  The backbone actually
consists of two different, redundant segments:  an older broadband
segment and a newer fiber segment.  Each Wellfleet has an interface
connected to each of the backbone segments, as well as several local
segments, ie:

           +-----------+
           | Wellfleet |
 local net-+           +---fiber------+
           |           |              |
 local net-+           +-broadband-+  |
           |           |           |  |
           +-----------+   IPX net |  |   IPX net
                             200-->|  |<--80e30200
           +-----------+           |  |
           | Wellfleet |           |  |
 local net-+           +-----------+  |
           |           |              |
 local net-+           +--------------+
           |           |
           +-----------+

IPX routing is turned on for both backbone segments in both Wellfleets.
This has worked fine for a while, but lately we are having baffling 
routing problems.  Is it legal to have a redundant IPX route?  I seem 
to remember that it isn't, but I can't find any documentation.

Thanks,
Mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: dweissman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (WiseGuy)
Subject: Re: Mylex ODI Driver?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. USA
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:46:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.092904.908@anl433.uucp>, rathmann@anla433.mhs.compuserve.com writes...
%Distribution: 
%Summary: 
%Keywords:ODI Mylex 
% 
%Hello world !
%Is there someone who can send post me a Mylex LNE31 ODI-Driver? I want to use UNIX TCP/IP and IPX on 
%our Mylex-PC (Eisa) , but i dont know who to do it. (With the WD Elite it works fine)
%Thanks,
%Stefan

We tried and then gave up.  Mylex has a beta odi driver for their LNE390A EISA
card (it says v1.00) that we never got working.  Mylex won't even bother
talking to you if you're not a reseller....not a real customer oriented
company (reseller yes, end-user no).
================================================================================
Dave Weissman - WAN/LAN Networking

   Allied-Signal Aerospace        Internet#1 - dweissman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov
   BFEC - Dept. 976               Internet#2 - sysdhw@bfec2.gsfc.nasa.gov
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From: lfreeman@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Leny Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Suspected Print Server Documentation error  v 3.11
Date: 14 Aug 1992 11:03:18 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: phad.hsc.usc.edu

OS ver: 3.11
Manual in question: Print Server 
Section: Rprinter 
Page: 158
lines 4 and 5 state the following:

"You must also add the following line to the CONFIG.SYS file:
   SPX=50"

Excuse me, but the above just does not look like the correct syntax for
a config.sys file.  Could the above line possibly be referring to the
NET.CFG file?  SHELL.CFG?  Or am I just losing it?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: duggan@chopin.udel.edu (Richard Duggan)
Subject: Re: HELP: RPRINTER wo'nt work
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 04:56:56 GMT

Brad Thone says:

>I hope you are not CAPTUREing on the computer that is doing the
>
>RPRINTERing.
>
>If you are, you are in effect creating a loop.
>

Not at all!

>-----------
>
>Say the RPRINTERing a printer physically connected to LPT1.
>
>If you CAPTURE LPT1 to a queue, and the queue then sends it back
>to your computer for output onto LPT1, well, things don't go so good.
>
>Cheers, and if you are doing the above, don't.
>
>If you're not doing the above, ignore me.

I beg to differ with you Brad.  Here in our computer lab we routinely
use a setup exactly as you have described above with no adverse effects
whatsoever.  CAPTURE handles sending the jobs from the workstation to
the queue, and RPRINTER handles sending the jobs from the queue to the
printer.  There is no loop.  In fact, the two TSRs are essentially
unaware that they are running on the same machine.

Using a setup like this is what allows us to use a printer
simultaneously from the workstation to which it is attached and from
other workstations in the lab.  I have seven printers set up like this,
one HP LaserJet III, and six IBM ProPrinter IIs (Yuck!).  All of the
stations in this lab are IBM PS/2 Model 30s (YUCK!).

Rich Duggan
English Department
University of Delaware
duggan@brahms.udel.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,bit.listserv.novell
From: green@eng.umd.edu (Michael Green)
Subject: Re: Ungerman Bass ODI Drivers
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 12:29:24 GMT
Organization: Dept. Anesthesiology, UM at Baltimore

In article <1992Aug13.170355.1@indyvax.iupui.edu> harvey@indyvax.iupui.edu writes:
>In article <92226.102935U37127@uicvm.uic.edu>, Satish Movva <U37127@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>> Can anyone tell me where one can get the above drivers?  I tried UB, but they
>> seem to have no clue what ODI drivers are.  I checked the FAQ's, but there
>> was no mention of UB drivers.
>> Thanks much!
>
>Lots of luck.  About a year ago I looked into getting an ODI driver for a
>UB-NIC PS/2 card that was installed in the workstation I was using then (an
>old IBM 6152).  I found an FTP site, ftp.ub.com, but there was nothing there.

AT&T used the Ungerman-Bass PS/2 card for their original Starlan
(=10BaseT) twisted pair NIC, AT&T call it the MC100, the later version
called the MC200 is made by Western Digital (WD8003).

The point of this is that AT&T had an ODI driver available for the
MC100 called ATTODI. It should be available from their BBS
(612 638 2854) and might be in the dosup5.zip file.

I use it as a Novell IPX driver.

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From: Rick.Ellis@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: RCONSOLE unders MS Windows?
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 20 Aug 92  17:57:57

On <Aug 20 17:57> Charles Marshall writes:

 CM> Has anybody gotten this to work?

I use it all the time.  What's the problem?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: cscc13@judy.uh.edu (NAVEED IQBAL)
Subject: Netware Lite 1.0   VS   Netware 2.X
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 23:40:00 GMT

I am setting up a LAN of four '486s. I have a copy of
Netware 2.X and four copies of Netware Lite 1.0  Which one
would be better to install so I can save the other one in order
to sell it.


Thanx
Naveed Iqbal
NIqbal@uh.edu
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Info On Setting Up A Default Router Under NW/386
Date: 13 Aug 92 00:57:00 GMT
Organization: Mail Group

I need some help figuring out how to setup a default router under
NW/386.  Suppose that my NW/386 box is acting as a TCP/IP router for two
attached ethernet segments (A and B), and suppose further that it is attached to a
third segment (let's name it C) that runs a UNIX box that acts as the gateway to the
Internet.

My question is how to I setup the NW/386 routing tables so that the UNIX
gateway will be the default router for any packets that the NW/386
router can't resolve (i.e., anything that is destined for the Internet).
As things stand now, machines on networks A and B are able to route
packets to machines on A, B, or C, but not to the Internet.  Machines on
C are able to get out to the Internet, but that's because they aren't
even using the NW/386 TCP router.  Does the BIND command for A and B
need to use the GATE parameter to reference the UNIX gateway on C, or
does the GATE parameter get used on the BIND for C?  Should I adjust the
COST parameter for the segments that have a GATE parameter to prevent
the router from using the default gateway before checking for other
paths?  Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Will Estes		Internet: westes@netcom.com
From: clem@log.moron.vware.mn.org (Clem)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Bridge Degradation
Date: 17 Aug 92 17:58:03 GMT
Organization: Clem's Cafe, Minneapolis, MN

I have been using Norton's Network Benchmark to test the speed of a new
ethernet backbone I am installing using FiberMux Hubs.  I have found in
the past that average reads and writes range between 210-250K/sec.
 
Using the Kalpana Etherswitch as a bridge between segments does not seem 
to affect the rate of reads and writes.  However, in these new Hubs i 
am using a bridge card that will seperates two segments within the same hub
I have found that going thru this bridge the speed of the reads and writes
drop dramatically to somewhere between 150-175k/sec.  While not going thru 
the bridge, but remaining within one segment of the hub, the reads and 
writes are around 225k/sec.
 
The Specs on the Fibermux bridge card show that forwarding rate is 13,000 P
and the filter rate is 26,000 PPs.
 
My question is, Should the bridge slowdown the network that much?  It seems
to me that slowdown is much more than should be occuring.
 
any comments would be helpful.

Thanks
clement
From: keith@novell.COM (Keith Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Re-partitioning Novell volumes
Keywords: Re-partitioning Volumes
Date: 14 Aug 92 01:16:24 GMT
Organization: Novell San Jose Development Center

In article <1992Aug13.031751.123120@zeus.calpoly.edu> glporter@zeus.calpoly.edu (Glen Porter) writes:
>
>Also, From what a Novell Educator friend of mine says . . .  there is no 
>advantage in having a second volume for MACintosh, since its name space
>can be loaded along side the existing name space on the DOS partition.
>This is a great advantage since you no longer have to worry about which
>volume to give what space to.  (not Necc true if you need NFS name space,BTW)

I'm not entirely sure what you are saying here but I am reasonably sure 
that it is wrong! There is really no difference between the Macintosh
name space and the NFS name space apart from the obvious one (one holds
the Mac finder information for a file and the other holds UNIX inode
information). The various "Name Spaces" on a volume actually live in
the directory entry area. When you add a name space to a volume, you
are actually causing each file and directory on the volume to burn up
additional directory entries for holding the new information in. In the
case of NFS, we burn an extra one directory entry unless a UNIX filename
goes over 40 characters in length in which case we start burning a second
directory entry (and if the filename goes over 152 characters, a third).
The Mac guys burn a whole directory entry just keeping their ICON so they
always use at least 2 (and only 2 I believe?). You might have gathered
by now that directory entries are 128 bytes in size.

There are several very good reasons for having at least two volumes on
a NetWare 3.11 server. Perhaps the best one is that if, god forbid, your
server should Abend on you, because your users were clowning around on
a volume other than SYS: it means SYS: is unlikely to be damaged to the
point of being unmountable. This means you won't be at the mercy of
what you remembered to put on your DOS partition to get things going
again.

Also, SYS: contains lots of files that are of no relevance to Macs
or UNIX systems. All the files in SYS:PUBLIC for example. Adding the
Mac and NFS namespace to SYS: means those files will be burning additional
directory entries on the volume for no good purpose. If you want to 
integrate Macs and Suns, you may aswell do it on a volume that mostly 
contains files that will be used by Macs and Suns. 


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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: alanj@ibmpcug.co.uk (Alan Jay)
Subject: TIME SYNC from Unix Host to Novell 3.11 Server
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:39:20 GMT
Keywords:  UNIC NOVELL 3.11 TIME SYNC NTP

Hi,

I have a recolection somewhere that there is an NLM that
will allow me to SYNC a Novell Servers time to that of a
Unix host running network time services.

Thanks in Advance

Regards
ALan
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: mbreton@gomez.intel.com (Michael Breton)
Subject: Re: TIME SYNC from Unix Host to Novell 3.11 Server
Organization: Architecture & Software Technology Group, Intel, Santa Clara CA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:12:38 GMT

  I'm interested in this as well...



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: Bob.Clegg@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: Management Tool
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 02:06:56 GMT

In article <dhoward.21.0@novell.com> dhoward@novell.com (Dirk W. Howard) writes:
> In article <1992Aug13.000912.4023@actrix.gen.nz> Bob.Clegg@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
> >From: Bob.Clegg@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
> >Subject: Management Tool
> >Date: 13 Aug 92 00:09:12 GMT
> >We are running Novell 3.11 with 3 volumes. Each volume belonging
> >to a different dept.
> >We are looking for a tool that will allow us to easily tell who
> >is using what amount of disk space in each of the volumes.
> >The problem is that as the disc space is consumed we don't know
> >who to target for file archiving and deletion without laboriously
> >searching the directory structure.
> 
> Use the Novell supplied DSPACE utility.
 This utility is geared towards interrogation of an individual user. With 100
plus users we are looking for some form of consolidated report.
 Anybody used Lomax utilities? On paper it looks like just what we need.
 Any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dirk W. Howard              These are my personal opinions.  No one else 
> Novell Technical Support    in their right would claim them.
> dhoward@novell.com
>                      "I'm sorry Ralph... not even the Networking
>                       Fairy can pull this one out of the fire."
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------


Newsgroups: comp.sys.alliant
From: rwynn@alliant.com (Randy Wynn)
Subject: Test
Organization: Alliant Computer Systems
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:02:55 GMT

This is a test.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.alliant
From: jay@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Jay Liang)
Subject: Fujitsu 3041D band printer ribbon
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:32:55 GMT

I am seeking info on where I can purchase printer ribbons for our
Fujitsu 3041D band printer (600 lpm).  I talked to the Alliant Customer
Service to no avail, the net seems to be my last resort.  Thanks in
advance for the response.

-- 
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System Administration Specialist
Geosciences Computing Network
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.laptops,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer
From: uds@parvathi.cs.wayne.edu (Seetamraju)
Subject: ....................BIOS Problems ?  HELP  HELP  HELP  HELP  HELP  
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:43:06 GMT


I sent my notebook computer for repairs, and due to unexplainable reasons, the
service center replaced the whole unit (coimputer) except for the hard disk, which
was transfered from the old computer.  I used to run DOS 5.0 with absolutely no
hitch.

To give you an idea : I used to task switch between kermit, GeoWorks,
VI editor, Norton commander, and for some time(while I was evaluating it) 4DOS.
Once in a while the wolfenstien game was also a task.  I had no problems what so ever
with the old unit.

Now, the new unit, DOES TASK SWITCH, but the video mode remains in GRAPHICS MODE
AFTER THE SWITCH (i.e, after I press alt-tab to move from one task to another).

Whether or not the properties menu option (is set to text or not) is set, the
task switch causes a a blank GRAPHICS mode screen.

For example if I switched form KERMIT to another copy of command.com (a task),
then I see a blank screen in video mode.  But whatever I type, the computer takes
action.  So I typed mode 80, and LO, BEHOLD, the text screen is back !!!

So, now, I have to do the `mode 80' command in every task, after each switch.

------------------------------------

Now, I have spent nearly 40 dollars calling everyone in magnavox and phillips
service centers, and they cant figure out what is going on.  In fact, none
of the technicians are adept at software, and dont know what task swithcing itself
means.

But I managed to get my problems across to one of the more intelligent guys(named
charlie), who sent me a LATEST VERSION of the BIOS card. (after I told him the
BIOS could be the problem).   NOPE, it didnt help.  The problem persists.

What flummoxes me is that everything was fine in the old unit.  There is a distinct
possibility that the old unit had a very OLD BIOS.  But our investigations over the
phone, seem to rule it out.

Before I travel 245 miles from Detroit to Columbus (th enearest service station)
where charlie works (and that place is my only hope, other than these usenet
groups) and where hopefully, the supervisors can do something non-technical like
give me a new unit with new comptible s/w (But I might have to pay some money),

and before I spend 4 + 4 hrs travelling, by car, I hope that someone here can
help me out.  That's why I am posting to these many groups.

PLEASE HELP ME.  PLEASE HELP ME.  PLEASE HELP ME.  PLEASE HELP ME.  

Anyone had any problems like this before ?

************************* P.S. Its not a corrupt s/w problem.  I booted my
notebook using DOS5.0 available on a floppy.  Nothing changes. same problems...
Anyway, corrupted s/w wont cause such `CORRECTABLE' PROBLEMS.

Seetamraju Udaya Bhaskar Sarma
all email will be re-directed to >> (email : seetam @ ece7 . eng . wayne . edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.net,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc