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From: evanc@uuisis.isis.org (Evan Champion)
Subject: Re: Lanmanager and Lantastic
Organization: International Shared Information Service (Ottawa)
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 15:35:20 GMT

sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

> And, incidently, Artisoft has now bowed to pressure and has admitted
> that they are working on an OS/2 version of LANtastic.  Let's keep up
> the pressure, folks.  Call or write, and pester (politely).

I heard about that.  I can't wait to see what comes out of it.  But can it 
be done?  Lanmanager over Lantastic cards?  I think all that would be 
required would be a netbios driver, no?

Evan
From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Telnet enhancer 1.0 released
Date: 24 Aug 92 00:45:30 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology

I have now released my Telnet Enhancer version 1.0.  It is a program package
that will enhance the Telnet daemon functionality in the OS/2 TCP/IP 
package from IBM (and probably FTP's package as well).  The package is
no replacement for the Telnet daemon, but rather an add on.  It will
enhance the Telnet daemon in the following ways:

*  Access to the MVDM (DOS-box) sessions in OS/2 2.0.
*  Access to multiple OS/2 sessions in OS/2 1.x and OS/2 2.0.
*  A more complete keyboard emulation, there most keystrokes are possible
   to emulate.
*  With certain applications it can speed up the operation.

The software is released as shareware and uploaded to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in
the pub/downloads directory, file called tn_enh10.zip.  Note that there
is an error in the documentation.  It says that the special functions and
keyboard emulations are available by pressing first ESC and then a command
key.  This was as a last minute change altered to KEYPAD ENTER - command
key.  To bring up the task list, you press KEYPAD ENTER followed by TAB.

This software is released very early, and has been only briefly beta tested.
I decided on releasing the software now, because there clearly seemed to
be great interest in it.  If there is enough continued interest, it will
certainly be improved.  The most priorited feature is background/multiple
access to the DOS-box...  If only IBM could release the necessary
documentation...:-(

Mikael Wahlgren      d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: db3l@ans.net (David Bolen)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP System Shutdown WIBNI
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:14:08 GMT
	<920827120012@tunes>
Organization: Advanced Network & Services, Inc. - Elmsford, NY

In article <920827120012@tunes> backman@vax  (Larry Backman) writes:

>IFS's also get a FS_SHUTDOWN call (2 in fact) frm the OS telling them that to
>clean up shop and go away.  I had a very amusing bug where I blocked
>the OS from shutting down while waiting to timeout an RPC to an NFS
>server that had gone away.  45 seconds later...the RPC timed out,
> returned from FS_SHUTDOWN and the system shut down.

Right, but those requests are at a lower level than the Shutdown menu option
from the desktop.  It's one of the things that eventually also occurs due
to the Shutdown choice, but it's also triggered if all you do is press
Ctrl-Alt-Del (which is why that's a safe reboot mechanism from the point of
view of filesystem integrity).

But then you already know this from writing your IFS :-)

Your "bug" sounds very familiar - actually, I used to intentionally cause
that behavior so that when I went to reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Del, I could pause
the system for a bit so I could see the final debugging output from my IFS
as it processed the shutdown :-)

'Course, it wasn't funny during the initial development when my IFS was
waiting indefinitely for it's user-level control program to return from the
shutdown - so much for Ctrl-Alt-Del :-)  I ended up making the default not to
depend on the user-level task for shutdown, especially during development :-)

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From: vdhart@isil02.isi.kfa-juelich.de (andre van der hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Two questions about IBM TCP/IP
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:51:28 GMT
Reply-To: vdhart@isil02.isi.kfa-juelich.de (andre van der hart)
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA), Germany

Hi netters

I have two questions about TCP/IP. I am running TCP/IP 1.2 on a PS/2 model 95
under OS/2 2.0.
I use X-server to connect my PC to a DEC Ultrix workstation. When I start a
Xterm (dxterm) I get the message that he cann't find the font menu10 or menu12.
I have called the DEC help line, but they couldn't find the bdf files. The snf
files of DEC-Windows are not compatible with TCP/IP. Can someone tell me where
I can find those fonts?
The second problem is, that my system hangs when I mount a drive on my DEC 
workstation and start WIN-OS2. What can I do about that?

Andre
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: reed-d@python.cis.ohio-state.edu (David Reed)
Subject: what does ifndis.sys do?
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:02:43 GMT


I have been trying to get IBM's TCP/IP and Microsoft's LAN Manager
(using TCP/IP as the protocol) to work simultaneously - here's
the problem:

Depending on where in the config.sys file I put the command
device=d:\ibmcom\ifndis.sys, only one of the products works
completely.  If I put it between the protocol manager and
network card driver devices, IBM's TCP/IP works, but I get
the error, SYS0053: The network path was not found, when
I try to do a "net use" (LAN Manager).  If I put ifndis.sys above
the LAN Manager section, net use works, but then IBM's TCP/IP
cannot access the network.  In either case, every loads without
any errors.

Sidenote: using netbeui for LAN Manager's protocol allows
everything to work, but unfortunately all the servers (except
the one test server that was setup for me) do not have 
netbeui loaded.

Does anyone know what exactly ifndis.sys does?  And even better,
how to fix my problem?

Thanks,
Dave Reed
From: t36253b@saha.hut.fi (Aali-Petri Alikoski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: IBM LAN Server 3.0 ?
Summary: LAN Server,IBM
Date: 30 Aug 92 16:42:44 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

I read some time ago an article where was mentioned something about
IBM LAN Server 3.0 going to beta testing. Is it true ? The 2.0 version
was released not so long time ago (few months) !!



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 Aali-Petri Alikoski
 Student                           | Microcomputer Expert
 Helsinki University of Technology | Neste Oy,Chemicals,Finland
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: yktnews@watson.ibm.com
Subject: X windows on Non-UNIX systems
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:49:39 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

    IBM has  has demonstrated some X client applications, running on OS/2 (2.0), at
Comdex and PC Expo (NY).

    IBM has also demonstrated DPM (Distributed Presentation Manager) at several 
places.

KeJia.
Gao@watson.ibm.com
From: gt0297a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tim Drury)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: IBM TCPIP Softcopy-3 Manuals
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:23:54 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

the executable is called BOOKMGR.EXE.  it is my opinion that os/2
help (VIEW) is a better product then bookmgr.  my main problem with
bookmgr is that you can only print what you see on the screen - with
view you can print the entire manual.  this begs to ask the question
of copyrights.  maybe copyrighted material only comes in bookmgr
format to discourage printing.

i would also like to ask the question: does anyone know how to reduce
the font size of the online help - when i print it the right edge
of the text is chopped off.

-tim drury
tdrury@calsun.gatech.edu
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: X server app for os/2?
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:02:57 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <Btzr15.Mq1@news.cso.uiuc.edu> djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (X X) writes:
>Is there an app that allows you to display X windows on your OS/2 machine
>such as HCL/xceed, Desqview/X for DOS?   

IBM offers an X server called PMX as an optional part of IBM TCP/IP
for OS/2.  For details read the file tcpip.txt, available via
anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

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From: oleg@watson.ibm.com (Oleg Vishnepolsky)
Subject: Re: what does ifndis.sys do?
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 19:38:30 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.11 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: oleg@watson.ibm.com (Oleg Vishnepolsky)
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

In  <1992Sep2.180243.17767@cis.ohio-state.edu>
reed-d@python.cis.ohio-state.edu (David Reed) writes:
>
> I have been trying to get IBM's TCP/IP and Microsoft's LAN Manager
> (using TCP/IP as the protocol) to work simultaneously - here's
> the problem:
>
> Depending on where in the config.sys file I put the command
> device=d:\ibmcom\ifndis.sys, only one of the products works
> completely.  If I put it between the protocol manager and
> network card driver devices, IBM's TCP/IP works, but I get
> the error, SYS0053: The network path was not found, when
> I try to do a "net use" (LAN Manager).  If I put ifndis.sys above
> the LAN Manager section, net use works, but then IBM's TCP/IP
> cannot access the network.  In either case, every loads without
> any errors.
>
> Sidenote: using netbeui for LAN Manager's protocol allows
> everything to work, but unfortunately all the servers (except
> the one test server that was setup for me) do not have
> netbeui loaded.
>
> Does anyone know what exactly ifndis.sys does?  And even better,
> how to fix my problem?

ifndis.sys is responsible for interfacing TCP/IP stack to NDIS
MAC drivers (and PROTMAN).
MS LAN Mgr version 2.1 (?) has its own TCP/IP stack. You can't
have two TCP/IP stacks to be bound to the same adapter.
As you said it yourself, if LAN Manager uses netbeui stack
(instead of TCP/IP) everything works.

Oleg Vishnepolsky
From: freeman@eagle (Jay Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Netware Requester and SMC card
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:57:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bu0KK8.6ro
Organization: Sangamon State University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Hello, I'm trying to get the Requester to work with an SMC Elite 16 card. 
I'm only trying to use Novell at this point, no other protocol stacks involved.
IT seems to load up fine, but during the desktop setup, the screen switches
to full screen and displays an error message across the top:

NWD0115  Failure getting connection ID 0x000F

Using the network icon, I can see it's found the server, and I can log in by
double clicking on the server icon. I can also see the network drives and
traverse the directory structure on them. I can't open a dos or OS/2 window
and login. Under a dos window, I get "packed file corrupt" in response to the
login command. Under OS/2, I can login, but can't map any drives. Nor can I
map drives using the NWTools that come with the requester.

I'm using the smc8000 ODI driver. The server is running Netware 2.12 (Ugh).

So, I'd be happy to send along config.sys and net.cfg to anyone who thinks
they can help.

Or is the problem the ancient version of Netware we're running here?

Thanks, Jay

email: freeman@eagle.sangamon.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: X10017@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Philippe Rameau)
Subject: IBM TCP/IP and RIP protocol.
Organization: Motorola
Date: 4 Sep 1992 09:29:41 CDT


     I currently run TCP/IP 1.2  with OS/2 v1.30.1, my PS/2 is connected
  onto an ethernet 802.3 lan with a router to the internet, as my router
  provides RIP routing protocol, I would like to share those information
  with the ROUTED.EXE which as say the manual uses the RIP protocol.
     Thank you for any help.
From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: Re: IBM LAN Server 3.0 ?
Organization: CARD
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:34:41 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.164244.1049@nntp.hut.fi>                                  
t36253b@saha.hut.fi (Aali-Petri Alikoski) writes:                               
                                                                                
>I read some time ago an article where was mentioned something about            
>IBM LAN Server 3.0 going to beta testing. Is it true ? The 2.0 version         
>was released not so long time ago (few months) !!                              
>                                                                               
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>-----                                                                          
> Aali-Petri Alikoski                                                           
> Student                           | Microcomputer Expert                      
> Helsinki University of Technology | Neste Oy,Chemicals,Finland                
>                                                                               
Yes it is true.  To order in Europe contact your IBM Marketing Rep.             
Mike Long                                                                       
Iowa State University
From: car@public.BTR.COM (Carlos Rimola-Sarti  car@btr.com)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: PC-NFS and OS/2 TCP/IP 1.2
Date: 27 Aug 92 06:16:58 GMT
Organization: Connective Strategies, Inc. (CSI).  Mountain View, California

We just setup a PC to run PC-NFS and mounted drives on OS/2 workstations
running IBM's TCP/IP 1.2 (OS/2 is at the 1.3) level.  We have observed the
following 2 problems:

	1) Doing a "dir" on the PC running PC-NFS results in a directory
	   listing in which part of the file names is garbled.

	2) Reading from the OS/2 mounted drive provides reasonable
	   performance but writting to it appears abnormally slow.

Has anyone ran into these problems?  Is there a way to correct them?

Please post or email to rimola@csisdn.com

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Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Monday, 31 Aug 1992 16:11:24 EDT
From: Andrew T. Robinson <ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Lantastics for Windows under OS/2 ??

1. Has anyone had any experiences using LANTASTICS under OS/2?  What
   type and level of support does LANTASTICS provide to OS/2?   Can
   multiple DOS VMs access the network?

2. Does the LANTASTICS for WINDOWS software run under WinOS2 (reliably)?

Andy
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: db3l@ans.net (David Bolen)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP System Shutdown WIBNI
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 11:33:46 GMT
Organization: Advanced Network & Services, Inc. - Elmsford, NY

In article <92238.095918NLAFLAMM@vma.cc.nd.edu> Nick Laflamme <NLAFLAMM@vma.cc.nd.edu> writes:

>Wouldn't it be nice if when I shutdown OS/2 from the desktop, I wasn't
>prompted about whether I wanted to kill the various OS/2 server tasks,
>such as SendMail, LPRMon, and any others running?  I'm not an OS/2
>programmer, but most of my OS/2 apps go away quietly when I shutdown my
>system.  I presume most apps respond to some kind of signal which the
>TCP/IP 1.2.1 servers ignore for the most part.

The only applications that can go away automatically are PM applications.
There are special PM messages that the WPS sends to each application to let
it know that a shutdown has been requested.  The applications are then
supposed to do whatever is necessary to save their state and shut down
(and some may prompt you just as if you selected their "Exit" menu item),
and then tell the WPS whether or not they agree to the shutdown.

Most of the TCP/IP servers run within normal OS/2 command sessions, which
do not have this method of communicating with the WPS.  Thus, you'll get
prompted whether you want to kill them - just as you'll get prompted if
you leave any windowed or full-screen command sessions running.

Perhaps a future release will have some sort of PM front-end to the servers
so that it can respond more elegantly to the shutdown.

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: PCNFS form a DOS session?
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:38:51 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <92248.113131HLR002@DJUKFA11.BITNET> HLR002@DJUKFA11.BITNET (Manfred Kremer) writes:
>Is it possible to run PCNFS in a DOS session under OS/2? I am trying to
>migrate to OS/2, but without PCNFS I am in severe trouble. So far I have
>not been able to find the appropriate DOS-settings to make PCNFS run.

It works in a specific DOS session.  See Appendix E of your
Installation Guide and/or the online Command Reference (under VMDISK)
for further information.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Subject: Help with tcpip and cabletron card
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 16:00:46 GMT




I am trying to get tcpip to work with a cabletron card and I am having
some difficulty.  I get the following messages on bootup as the ndis
driver is loaded:

Failure: Protocol.ini does not have an DRIVERNAME =.
Failure: Protocol Manager did not accept driver.
Failure: NDIS enviroment invalid, Driver not loaded.


This is the first time I have tried to do this so I may be doing something
stupid.  Any answers?

Here is my protocol.ini:
; ---------------------  Protocol Manager Definition  -----------------------

[PROTOCOL_MANAGER]
  DRIVERNAME = PROTMAN$


[TCPIP_XIF]
  DriverName = TCPIP$
  Bindings = CSI8023


;*****************************************************************************
; The following are default sections for Cabletron adapters and 
; a sample protocol.
;*****************************************************************************

; CSI 
[CSI8023]
  DRIVERNAME = CSINET$		; Required for each series
  MEDIA	     =  PRI		; PRI for Primary, SEC for Secondary Media 
				; ignored by E3100
  BOARDTYPE  =  E1000		; Required for each series
  IOADDRESS  =  0x300		; Required for E1100, E2100 - ignored by E3100
  INTERRUPT  =  5		; Required for E1100, E2100 - ignored by E3100
  SHAREDRAM	 = 0xD000	; Required for E1100, E2100 - ignored by E3100
  RECEIVEBUFSIZE = 2034		; Configured Default
  RECEIVEBUFFERS = 6		; Configured Default
  MAXREQUESTS    = 6		; Configured Default
  MAXMULTICAST   = 10		; Configured Default
  MAXTRANSMITS   = 6		; Configured Default
  RECEIVECHAINS  = 6		; Configured Default



;*****************************
;**	PROTOCOL           **
;*****************************

; Sample Protocol Section
[SAMPLE]
  DRIVERNAME = SAMPLE$
  BINDINGS   = CSI8023		; REQUIRED IN PROTOCOL SECTION


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
From: jdarnold@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Jonathan Arnold)
Subject: Re: I need 3COM 3c505 Ethernet Plus driver for IBM's OS/2 TCP/IP
Organization: Interleaf, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 14:41:21 GMT

In article <BtnEGE.Lw3@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com> probert@fires1.srl.ford.com writes:
>I need the 3COM 3c505 EtherLink Plus driver for IBM's OS/2 TCP/IP
>software.  I am running OS/2 2.0 and the driver must conform to the
>NDIS MAC specification.

The OS/2 TCP/IP package comes with the NDIS drivers for the 3COM card.
I just installed TCP/IP and have the 3COM EtherLink Plus.  The driver
is called ELNKII.OS2.

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From: sasdxk@skyhawk.unx.sas.com (Dave Kolb)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: ODINSUP problems
Date: 31 Aug 92 13:30:06 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasdxk@skyhawk.unx.sas.com


In article <5306@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, sillett@edc3jr.gsph.pitt.edu (Robert L. Sillett) writes:
|> 
|> I've configured IBM's TCP/IP 1.2.1 to run along with the Novell
|> Requester on the same NIC (3C503) using ODINSUP.  It works great --
|> for 90 or seconds.  Then all the TCP/IP+NFS functions stop working.  I
|> know that this is a known problem to IBM & Novell; however, is it a
|> problem with the 3COM drivers or with the software?
|> 
|> Thanks in advance.
|> 
|> --- Bob
|> 
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This is a known problem (to some anyway) at IBM and Novell.  Novell has
issued an updated ODINSUP.SYS and IBM new IFNIS.SYS and INET.SYS files.

The IBM mods break a couple of other things like bootp, slip and netstat.

Perhaps the new ODINSUP alone will fix the problem.

You can refer to my IBM problem 3x351 if you like.

Have the TCP/IP support queue contact James Ting at IBM Novell support
in Austin.


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