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From: tt@thor.acc.Virginia.EDU (Tang Tang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: URGENT - SCSI DISK LOSES PARTITION INFO
Date: 20 Dec 92 22:18:49 GMT
Reply-To: tt@virginia.edu
Organization: Academic Computing Center, University of Va.

In article <5836@npg-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM>, bhoule@npg-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM (Bill Houle) writes:
|> In <1gtifoINNmoe@golem.wcc.govt.nz> rossiter_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
|> 
|> >One of our 3.11 with NW4M 3.01 servers has two drives in a single
|> >external cabinet.  SYS is a 320MB MaxStor, VOL1 is/was a 1GB Dynatek/
|> >Fujitsu.  Two of the last three times the power has been turned off
|> >(server DOWNed properly, power off at cabinet swith), the 1GB drive 
|> >has lost its partition table.
|> 
|> We'd like to report a slightly similar case.  We have an NCR 3445
|> with 640M Maxtor labeled as SYS/DSK1, and a Seagate 14600 1.2G disk
|> as DSK2.  Twice now, during periods a heavy file copy activity (DSK2
|> holds all the user accounts), the server has crashed; when it comes
|> back up, all DSK2 partition info is lost and we've had to rebuild
|> from backups.  We've swapped out the drive this time to make sure it
|> isn't a problem on the disk itself.
|> 
|> To maybe answer your question, our VAR has told us that if VREPAIR 
|> can't see the volume, there's no way to bring the partition table back.
|> That's why we've had to redo the partition and restore from backups 
|> the two times.
|> 
|> --
|> Bill Houle                    bhoule@npg-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM
|> NCR NPD-San Diego             (619) 693-5593

  We have yet another disk related case.  Our server has been crashing when
there are heavy disk traffic to the second drive.  We did not lose the 
partition table but part of system logfile has people's data in it!  Our setup
is 486/33 with 64 megs running NW 3.11 and Netware NFS, Adaptec 1452B, 
Seagate ST11200 and Micropolis 2112 (second drive) drives.  Both drives
are running as a single volume (maybe that's why we didn't lose the
partition table?)  Could there be a problem with the 1542B driver under
heavy IO?

Tang Tang
University of Virginia
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: davel@xvt.com (Dave Locke)
Subject: Re: Help Me Buy a Fax Server
Keywords: Fax
Organization: XVT Software Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:36:41 GMT
X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message are those of an
	individual at XVT Software Inc., and do not necessarily
	reflect those of the company.

In article <1992Dec16.035110.17392@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> jap7g@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jim Alan Pisano) writes:
>
>Our requirements:
>
>Must work with Windows 3.X (we have 3.0, but will be upgrading to 3.1).
>Must allow each workstation user to have her own directory.
>Must be easy to use for _out-bound_ faxes.
>Must be affordable for 20+ users.
>Must handle Windows documents and graphics, e.g., Word documents, Excel
>spreadsheets, and normal ASCII text files.
>
>Our wishlist:
>
>Can output to HP LaserJet.
>Can direct incoming faxes to users.
>Can use our print server PC, i.e., does not need its own PC to be a server.
>
>Thanks for any info/recommendations that you have.
>
> Jim Pisano                                           jap7g@Virginia.EDU    
> Route 16 Box 380                                     uunet!virginia!jap7g  
> Charlottesville, VA 22901                            (804) 973-2227

We have several Calculus Fax Servers on our network.  I would recommend 
them. It will meet all of your needs except direct incomming faxes.  The
biggest perks are it will run non-dedicated in EMS, it is $1,799 list
price for unlimited netusers (we have 33, with plenty of mips left over).

Dave Locke
davel@xvt.com

** These opinions are my own, not of my company **

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: millerje@CS.ColoState.EDU (Jeff Miller)
Subject: packet driver for 3c509?
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:50:30 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department

 Has a packet driver been developed for the 3c509 yet?

[Why c.s.n.?  I'd like to get charon working with odipkt on a 3c509 adapter...
 And you probably had a flame waiting :) ]

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: Novell upgrade from 3.11 to 3.2 or 4.xx, when?
Keywords: Novell, 3.11, 4.xx, Upgrade
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:03:39 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.224515.20637@ncsu.edu> ashah@eos.ncsu.edu (the cool dude) writes:

>So r v or r v not going to get
>a free upgrade from 3.11 to 3.2 or 4.0 ?

A recent article I saw said no discounted upgrade, much less free. Full
price for 4.0 ($18K or so). (Looks like I'll be running 3.11 for a *long*
time....)


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The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
"Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma
radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: pkarrer@bernina.ethz.ch (Peter Karrer)
Subject: LANSUP.COM mistakenly reverses MAC address bit order.
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 16:40:00 GMT

This is from my CONFIG.SYS:

  DEVICE=C:\LSP\PROTMAN.DOS /I:C:\LSP
  DEVICE=C:\LSP\NETFLX.DOS
  DEVICE=C:\LSP\DXMA0MOD.SYS
  DEVICE=C:\LSP\DXME0MOD.SYS 400000037292

NETFLX.DOS is a *Token-Ring (802.5)* NDIS driver.
DXMA0MOD/DXME0MOD is an IBM NDIS-to-LAN Support Program (ASI[?]) shim.
400000037292 is my PC's "locally administered" LAN address.

My AUTOEXEC.BAT has NETBIND, LSL, LANSUP, ROUTE, IPX, NETX, TCPIP, TELAPI etc.
We need the LAN Support interface for a 3270 emulator (Attachmate Extra!
for Windows).

Now, LANSUP.COM tells me:
  Initializing ETHERAND adapter...
  Node Address 20000C04E49
  ...
020000C04E49 is 400000037292 with reversed bit order within address bytes.
(Setting the node address in NET.CFG has no effect.)

Sure enough, when I trace IP traffic, I see that the MAC header source
address is correct, while the ARP reply address has its bits swapped...

The problem probably comes from the fact that support for 802.5 NDIS drivers
is a new feature of LAN Support Program version 1.3x; earlier versions
only supported 802.3 and DIX 2.0, for which bit swapping is OK.

I think LANSUP.COM needs an upgrade, or is there some workaround?

Meanwhile, I could patch LANSUP.COM (I've identified the flag which is
responsible for bit swapping), but  perhaps I shouldn't...

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Peter Karrer                                   pkarrer@bernina.ethz.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.wang
From: paul@hp4at.eunet.co.at (Paul Gillingwater)
Subject: Wang VS with PACE database -- UNIX and Novell migration
Organization: Home Office in Vienna, Austria
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:29:58 GMT

Hi people.  What interesting challenges they come up with at work
sometimes!  We have a Wang VS (around 200 users) accessed via a mixture
of LightSpeed gateways and WLOC cards.  We're wanting to migrate away
from the PACE relational database towards Sybase on a UNIX platform, but
want to do a gradual transition, maintaining access to data on both
systems in a hopefully transparent manner.

I believe Wang's Open PACE is a newer version which supports SQl, and
may make the task of maintaining referential integrity easier, but this
is apparently too expensive, and the costs of migrating to Open PACE/SQL
would probably be as much as going to Sybase.  (We're redesigning our
front-ends too, and taking COBOL functionality into 4GLs.)

I understand it is possible to obtain TCP/IP and a C compiler for the
Wang VS, but I don't know what functionality this will give us.  Do we
get a Sockets library with this?  And is there any slight chance that we
could interface to a PACE library to read, write and modify rows or
columns in the PACE database via the LAN?

Another option is to use PACEMAN, which runs on a PC -- but from the
docs. I've read, it doesn't seem to offer an open API, or even access to
DDE under Windows, which might have helped.

I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has done, or is doing, a
similar migration from PACE on Wang VS towards Sybase on UN!X.

Best wishes for the solstices (winter and summer!),

Paul Gillingwater
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From: dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Should this happen (ATPS)?
Keywords: ATPS
Date: 14 Dec 92 17:13:48 GMT
Organization: Novell Inc., San Jose, Califonia

In article <cozzi.25@convex.rad.nd.edu> cozzi@convex.rad.nd.edu (Marc D. Cozzi) writes:
>My configuration is Netware 3.11 using TCP/IP, Macintosh NLM 3.01.
>The server is connected to Ethernet.
>The Ethernet and LocalTalk are connected via Cayman Gatorbox. No LocalTalk
>in the file server!
>Three LaserWriters on LocalTalk network.
>Three ATPS LaserWriter print queues configured on the server.
>Problem is that sometimes when a DOS users prints from an application
>to one of the ATPS print queues and a Macintosh user prints
>directly to a LaserWriter on LocalTalk, the print jobs get
>interleaved. The Macintosh print job is a one page graph and the
>DOS print job is several pages of text and equations.
>Do I need to make all the Macintosh users use the ATPS queues?
>Thanks
>Marc Cozzi
>Univ of Notre Dame
>cozzi@convex.rad.nd.edu

Hi,

We just tried this on our net and had no trouble with it.  I printed directly
to a LaserWriter while my friend printed through the queue to this same printer.
The jobs came out one at a time (they were not mixed).  Now, I was not trying
to print any graphics (both jobs were just text), so there may be something to
that, and I will try that test next.  But I would hope those jobs wouldn't be
mixed either (what a nightmare this would be if printing a couple of VERY LONG
documents!).  We may need to get a trace of this to find out why the printer's
contention process is working the way it is for you.  However, if you wish to 
fix this "problem" fast, just make everyone print to the queue and set queue
user priority as needed.  You will also want to hide your printers to make sure
that those pesky Macintosh users don't defy your requests to use the queues 
only (this was your suggestion in the original posting, and it is probably the
fastest way to get results in this case). 

Let me know if you would like to trace/troubleshoot this and I will help you out.

Think Peace, and Happy Holiday!

Dan Seeman
Novell
Walnut Creek, Ca.
From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Univel Server vs. 3.11 Server
Date: 15 Dec 92 09:45:13 GMT
Organization: NobelTech AB

In article <1992Dec15.054546.19409@novell.com> keith@novell.com (Keith Brown) writes:
>In article <Bz5q1M.KqJ@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>>
>>Does this mean that an MS-DOS computer connected via Ethernet to a
>>UNIXWare server will not be able to mount UNIX directory trees as
>>"network drives"? (Please forgive me if I have the terminology wrong.)
>
>No, you have the terminology just fine and yes, that's exactly what
>I meant.

One interesting question, since you say one can't use it as a server -
if I run a Univel client, can I do management via telnet, or X from
a Univel based client to my sparcstation or whatever. Syscon via X
or syscon via telnet is what I think I want ?
/Per

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
Subject: NDIS driver with netware ?
Organization: NobelTech AB
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:55:48 GMT

Hi!

I have one (simple) question: How do I use NDIS drivers with IPX, using
as few extra steps as possible? Can I get an IPX for NDIS somewhere ?

/Per
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: ashah@eos.ncsu.edu (AJAY  SHAH)
Subject: Alarming Server Stats ???
Followup-To: ashah@eos.ncsu.edu ajay@alphatronix.com
Keywords: NE2000 
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 03:50:57 GMT

Hi,

I have the foll. query :


We have 2 NW 3.11 servers with the foll. stats...


			Server A			Server B

Uptime			31 days				19 days
NIC			NE2000				NE2000
Pkts. sent		11,384,917			11,307,471
Pkts. rcvd.		11,210,981			11,249,449
ChecksumErrors		73				168
TotalCollisionCount	10,179				12,451
UnsupportedFramePkt.Cnt.502,002				302,498
EnqueuedSendsCount	159,077 (!!!)			107,689 (!!!)


All other stats. are either 0 or not supported.

Now, what are my worries here ?  Is the EnqueuedSendsCount number
alarming (Please consider the UPTIME of each server) ?  We are running
IPX/SPX as well as TCP/IP (most of it is TCP though) 
but should this matter ? (I guess it does)

Do I need to re-boot the server (i.e bring it down) so that the buffers
are cleared or is ther no need for alarm at all ???

Please advice.

Thanx in advance.
Ajay.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: x03@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (A. Stegmeier)
Subject: Re: Novell FTP sites
Organization: University of Heidelberg (Germany)
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 14:19:40 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.204716.5173@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner) writes:
[...]
>>	Is the OS/2 Requester a regular part of Netware or does it have
>>to be ordered separately?  And also, I know there are Novell ftp
[...]

According to the latest Buyers Guide (October 92) it *is* part of NW 3.11.
But I wasn't able to discover the floppies the last packages I received.

So maybe some person from Novell could clarify this?.

Achim

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: iqbal@omaha.eel.ufl.edu (M.Iqbal)
Subject: Books on Novell
Organization: University of Florida
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 03:00:33 GMT

Hi,

Like the title says, I am looking good books on Novell netware.
We have 3.11 version/256 user Novell netware and many books. However,
the books does not seem to be very friendly with novice. I am wondering
if there are good books available on Novell? Please email me replies as
access to this news group is not at my will.

Thank you
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From: fn@junior.mathtok.polymtl.ca (Francois Normant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: IBM PC Net Card with Novell ?
Date: 12 Dec 92 20:03:23 GMT
Organization: Mathematiques Appliquees - Ecole Polytechnique - Montreal

Hi,

Is it possible to connect PCs via NetwareLite using IBM PC Net cards ?
Novell seems to support only Ethenet, Token-Ring and Arcnet but I would
like to make sure.

Thanks in advance.


-- 
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Departement de Mathematiques Appliquees - Ecole Polytechnique
C.P. 6079 - succursale A
Montreal - Quebec - Canada - H3C 3A7
From: vho@Gnu.ai.mit.edu (Viet Ho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Laser Control & Capture printing
Date: 17 Dec 1992 15:25:26 GMT
Organization: Free Software Foundation
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: wombat.gnu.ai.mit.edu

Has anyone been able to run HP LaserControl and Novell's Capture
TSR's concurrently on a simple 286 dos box?  What I'm trying to
do is have our HP LaserJet III connected to the LAN server emulate
an EPSON printer because our main mortgage servicing software 
is so brain dead that it expects an EPSON printer on LPT1:  or it
will print our reports wrong or crash.

Thanks much in advance!

-Viet
 vho@gnu.ai.mit.edu  <- please email

 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: duggan@chopin.udel.edu (Richard Duggan)
Subject: Pager server alert?
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:32:18 GMT

Greetings net-landers!

I am looking for a program which may not exist.  If it doesn't, it should.

My employers have recently given me a pager (I know, lucky me) so that
users in our department can reach me if there is a problem with the LAN.
The pager is triggered by dialing the local phone number assigned to it,
then dialing the number that should appear on the pager's display.

I would like to set up an automated device to page me if one of my servers
goes down.  I have an old XT and an old autodialing modem.  What I need is
a program that would run on the XT and watch the server connections.  When
a server goes down, the program would send the command sequence to the
modem: ATDT1234567,,,,9999999#.  Viola!  I could put the XT on a cheap UPS
so it would even call me if there was a power failure.

Does such a program exist?  If not, how hard would it be to write?  (I
have precious little programming experience.)  Any and all help or
suggestions will be much appreciated.

Thanks

Rich

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: jtw2@Ra.MsState.Edu (J. Todd Warren)
Subject: "cannot execute command" error msg
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:17:42 GMT
Ath: Ra.MsState.Edu!jtw2

Has anyone seen ar even heard of the error message
CANNOT EXECUTE COMMAND.  Serveral users on my netware
2.15c and 3.11 servers have seen this msg lately.  In 
all my years of Novell I have never seen it. Can someone
shed some light on this for me please.  thanks in advance.
Please e-mail me directly.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: donp@novell.com (don provan)
Subject: Re: 3.11, TCP/IP routing w/ subnets
Organization: Novell, Inc., San Jose, California
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 08:21:15 GMT

In article <16DEC199208530385@spades.aces.com> gavron@ACES.COM writes:
>That's right, so save your lightning stories to spook your kids 
>with, and while you're so gung ho on RFCs perhaps you'll explain
>why your brain-damaged software doesn't send a UDP Port Unreachable
>thereby making TRACEROUTE useless.

Well, Keith doesn't know the answer to that (although i'm sure he'll
be willing to make one up if you'd like), but i do.  You see, TCP/IP
has many wonderful and obscure features, and, well, in my rush to see
that Novell produced high quality and usable TCPIP support for NetWare
so you could have it for your NetWare v3.11 server at no cost, somehow
i left out some of the more obscure features of IP, ICMP, and UDP,
three of the parts i was personally responsible for.  One such feature
was sending Port Unreachable ICMP messages in response to UDP packets
to a port that wasn't active.

I can't claim that traceroute hadn't been invented at the time, but it
is true that i hadn't yet seen a copy of it yet, and it's use of this
particular strange and wonderful ICMP feature was not widely
documented.  Consequently, through my admitted ignorance, i was not
aware of what a pivotal role Port Unreachable messages would play in
the life of one Ehud Gavron, and therefore i mistakenly did not give
it the extremely high priority it deserved.

When asked earlier this year why traceroute showed a "hole" where
NetWare IP routers were located, i rushed out to investigate this
utility, whose source had only recently come to my attention, so that i
could fill in the huge gap in my knowledge.  When i had deciphered its
plan, i rushed to the appropriate spot in the TCPIP.Nlm sources only to
find, alas, a comment to the effect that we really should implement
Port Unreachable here, but there wasn't enough time just then.

Well, needless to say, realizing what a terrible calamity this was,
and although i'd long since been assigned to a different project, i
immediate implemented the ICMP Port Unreachable message as well as a
couple of others i'd carelessly left out.  So you can now get ICMP
Port Unreachable messages by purchasing -- and this is the punch line,
fellow travelers -- Novell's MultiProtocol Router version 2.0!  (Well,
and it's been in all versions of TCPIP.Nlm since September or so and
it will be in all future NetWare releases, but that's not as funny.)

>Oh I'm sorry, running traceroute
>to a Novell box is like running lightning through a piece of paper.

Oh, did i mention that all the RFCs clearly say that sending ICMP Port
Unreachable messages is optional?  Did i mention that i *knew* that at
the time?  Did i point out that you obviously *still* don't know that?

>Maybe Novell just needs to hire some people who understand TCP/IP...

Maybe you should step outside with me so i can teach you some manners, jerk.

						don provan
						donp@novell.com
From: raymond@nic.cerf.net (Raymond Roque)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Adding volumes to server
Date: 20 Dec 1992 08:26:51 GMT
Organization: CERFnet Dial n' CERF Customer Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: nic.cerf.net

To Sys Admins and Novell Certified Engineers:

I'm trying to add an external hard disk to our Novell server, 
a 386 version 3.11 for the MacIntosh (20 users).

The server is a first generation 386 which only upgrades to
6 Megs of RAM memory, an ALR 220.

Currently, three volumes are mounted totaling 600Megs of
hard disk space. Viewing their options from the install
loadable module, each volumes were configured using 16K blocks.	

After creating another volume for this hard disk (1300megs),
I tried to mount it in the install NLM. The server gave me
an error of: "Cache memory allocator error out of available memory"

To mount a total of 1900Meg in the server, how much RAM memory
do I need for the server?

Confering with other people and the installation manuals (taking
into consideration that we are using a MacIntosh environment),
the computation should be (Page 113-114 of the installation
manual):

(.032 * (Total hard disk space)) / block size = RAM memory required

0.032 for name space support since it is a Mac environment.

If the block size is 16K which was used with the other
volumes, I get 3.8Megs for the RAM requirement. This seems to
be inaccurate because at 6 Megs of RAM, my server flags the 
error.

If the block size is 4K which is the standard configuration, 
I get 15.2 (approx 16 Megs) for the RAM requirement.

Can anyone help?

I just need more info before deciding to get a new motherboard
for the server.

Thanks to all

Raymond Roque
Network Administrator
International Documentation 
raymond@cerfnet.com