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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 22:16:00 EDT
From:         REB100@PSUVM.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Server Performance Question
              5 Oct 1992 18:30:55 -0600

Thanks for your comments and insights.  I appreciate your response.  Budget
is a major concern at this point, (at what point isn't it <g>) so, the
powers to be are obviously not that happy with an answer of you MUST buy a
drive.  The ccurrent admin even turned down a proposal for a trial run for
say 90 days, after which we'd might have some data for a better evaluation.

As you might have guessed from the note, I'm the former admin.  Although I
agree that a second drive is the ultimate and best solution, I tend to try
and give my users what I can without bankrupting their research projects.
OOPS, I should have said former users <g>.  Old habits die hard.

Well, one way or the other, the problem will get resolved.

Thanks again for responding.  I appreciate the input.

Bob

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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 10:58:00 EDT
From:         REB100@PSUVM.BITNET
Subject:      Re: PCPRINT under version 4.11(5)

Scott,

As has been pointed out, there are elegant solutions to the problem you are
experienceing.  A simpler solution might be to simply put the statement:

MODE LPT1 ,,R

in your autoexec file.  The printer port will be reset to infinite timeout,
and the connection should be established without a problem.  As also
mentioned by an earlier post, you could put a PAUSE statement in.  These two
solutions are basically equivalent save one keystroke.

Bob
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:41:48 EDT
From:         jyenchik@ROSEDALE.ORG
Subject:      Telebit Modems

We currently have a Telebit QBlazer V.32, 9600 baud modem.  We cannot get it
to work with Banyan dial-in.  Our reseller has told us that we have to change
the script files but hasn't come up with any suggestions.  We have tried
everything we can think of.  Does anyone have experience with these modems or
have them working with dial-in?  We only have 1 week left on the trial and
we're running out of time and patience.  Thanks.

Jane Yenchik
Educational Testing Service
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 09:27:36 CDT
From:         David=Blair%ComputerSrvcs%WILL@BIGBIRD.WILL.UIUC.EDU
Subject:      re: Telebit Modems

Tell your reseller to get you a Practical Perphials instead.  They have a
lifetime warranty and work fine with PC Dial-In.

David L. Blair
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:47:00 BSC
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From:         gomide@FPSP.FAPESP.BR
Subject:      Apologies re: InterMeta course

PLEASE DO NOT SEND MONEY !
It is with regret that I perform this task. Dr. Gelson V. Gomes. a
professor of the University of Parana, Brazil, has exceeded this
privileges and announced a eletronic course:

> ____________________________________________________________
>        Mastering INTERNET Tools, Seizing METANET Power -
>                      The InterMeta Course
> ____________________________________________________________

I must apologize for this flagrant breach of network etiquette. Please
be aware that Dr. Gelson had no right to do so, since this is against
the rules of our ANSP network, and also against the Bitnet rules.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND MONEY!
I will not discuss what his motivations were. But his account has been
revoked, and there will be no such course through my network.

Please write by normal mail, to:
-> Gelson V. Gomes
-> 358, R. Alvaro Andrade - ap.1201
-> Curitiba PR BRAZIL 80610-240
to get more information on his objectives. He may want to give the
course by normal mail.  :-)

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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 11:17:00 MED
From:         Brynjulf=Mauring%System%Bygg.KT@BANYAN.MTI.SINTEF.NO
Subject:      re: macintosh printservice

I also looked into the problems concerned with MAC and printing from VINES.
The sollution was a VINES-independent one.
We would for instance like our MAC-users to print to a HPlaserjet II (so we
don't have to buy a new PAP-compatible printer).
What I find was a product called PowerPrint (GDT Softworks) which allows a MAC
to print to almost any printer with a centronics (parallell) interface. The
cable is a serial to parallell converter. Well, I tried that part and it works
just fine.
What I haven't tried jet, is a product called NetSerial connection (from Shiva)
 which will allow MAC users to access a serial device on the network.
Again this can be hooked up to a printersharing device so that the VINES/DOS-
users also can access the printer.

I think the connection would look like this:

   |     ___
   |----|DOS| user
   |    |___|
   |     ___
   |----|MAC| user running PowerPrint-software
   |    |___|
   |
   |     ___  Powerprint cabel
   |----|   |______________
   |    |___|              |	   _______
   |  Netserial           _|_	  |       |
   | 		  Print- |   |----| HP II |
   |              spooler|___|    |_______|
   |	 ___		   |
   |----|   |______________|
   |	|___|
   |  Printserver
   |   (PCPRINT)
   |
Ethernet

This may not be an elegant sollution, but it's not as expensive as buying new
network PAP-printers (allthough I haven't checked the price for the NetSerial
box jet)

- Brynjulf
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From: marquis@netcom.com (Roger Marquis)
Subject: Re: SMTP headaches
Organization: Netcom 
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:10:41 GMT

In article <BANYAN-L%92092917295221@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> R=Stoll%SysAdmin%7CG@LGGATE2.HQ.AF.MIL writes:
>I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the SMTP gateway will not resend
>messages that it just received.  In other words, a message that comes in
>through the gateway and hits a setmail command can't go back out the same
>gateway.  You can send it out another gateway, but not the one that it came in
>on.  Banyan knows about this, but I don't know if there's going to be a "fix"
>for this.  Maybe in SMTP 1.3??
>SSgt Robert Stoll

This is interesting news.  I've been responding to email received
through an SMTP gateway ever since version 1.14.  What exactly are the
symptoms SSgt?  

Most of the problems I've had with SMTP mail handling have been
corrected by editing the /etc/sendmail.cf file on the gateway (read:
default) UNIX machine.  Sun tech support has been invaluable in tweaking
this file to work with Banyan's SMTP service.  Wish I could say the
same thing for IBM (RS6000) support.

Roger (marquis@netcom.com)
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 11:45:58 PST
From:         JRKROGH@OSREQ22.ROCKWELL.COM
Subject:      Need Info Being new to the Internet,
              I don't have much confidence in my usage of all the

different types of addresses I'm seeing. Is their someway  when I send a
message to Banyan-L, I will also receive a copy of the message?
Thanks...

-John-
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 15:23:50 PDT
From:         Stephane=Bourque%Eng%Incognito@DEAN.ARTS.SFU.CA
Subject:      re: Obtaining Ethernet Address programatically

Hi guys:

	I don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for but
	in the book "PC Interrupts" by Ralph Brown & Jim Kyle, page
	27-31 a call is documented to get the network address......

	Int 60h (63h for Ban), AH=0ch...on return AL=0 (success)
	and ES:SI point to 6 bytes of net address.

	I have never tried it but heck...

	Thanks...


	Stephane Bourque
	Incognito Software Inc.
	Voice:  (604)669-7575
	Fax:    (604)669-7576
	e-mail: stephb@test.arts.sfu.ca

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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 22:24:09 PDT
From:         Craig Armstrong <craiga@SPOCK.DIS.CCCD.EDU>
Subject:      Re: enet address

>
> Sorry for not paying attention, but:
>
> The discussion for determining enet addresses reminded me of something I'm
> looking for.  Does someone know of a way to put a workstations enet address
> into the environment?  Scott's enetaddr.exe is handy but doesn't quite meet
> this need.

Mike, (and others) there is a way to get the address for any VINES NIC
from an undocumented RPC call to VanGuard. If the Banyan folks (Laura,
you are reading this?) don't get peeved, I'll post an object module that
you can call from C. The call is pretty obscure, so I think as long as
I don't post source there won't be a prob. I'll give the Banyan people
a few days to respond before I make it available. The code I gave
Sharkey to do this should still work if you happen to have a copy..

Of course, you are on your own the write a program to stuff it in an
environment variable!!!

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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 00:03:54 PDT
From:         HLP1%ItsLsc%CTS@CTS27.CS.PGE.COM
Subject:      Re: BBS systems

What version of TackBoard is being used by sites that have TackBoard? Version
2.37?  Also, anyone working with an OS/2 version of TackBoard?  If so what
version?

Herb Patten
PG&E
hlp1@cs.pge.com
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:56:32 EDT
From:         M=Woods%SysAdmin%7CG@LGGATE2.HQ.AF.MIL
Subject:      re: Shortening VINES names for SMTP

Mike,

You can configure the SMTP gateway with a default group.  When any mail
comes in with an address that does not have the group and org appended,
it looks in the default group for the name.  If it finds one, all is
well, but if it doesn't, the message gets rejected.  Once you have a
default group set up, all you need to do is add nicknames in the default
group to point to real users.

Our default group is ddn@7cg.  We have a nickname (first init, last name)
in ddn@7cg for each of our users.  Ie: mwoods@ddn points to m
woods@sysadmin, so when mail comes in to mwoods@lggate2, it gets
forwared to m woods@sysadmin@7cg.

Thats all there is to it!

SrA Mark Woods
USAF/7CG/LGR
The Pentagon
mwoods@lggate2.hq.af.mil
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 08:27:44 CDT
From:         JZeevi%users%swri03@D26VS046A.CCF.SWRI.EDU
Subject:      ARL restoration

Did I miss something in the documentation that says that if you perform a
single service restoration the ARL for that service would be screwed up ?

I did the following :

	backup a service from disk2
	delete the service
	create the service on disk1
	restore the service

the "new" services ARL had no rights for anyone but me (I created it.) Have I
grossly misunderstood this ARL stuff?

	josef
	jzeevi@swri.edu
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 12:35:51 CDT
From:         JZeevi%users%swri03@D26VS046A.CCF.SWRI.EDU
Subject: Re: Hackable ???

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

Josef,

I would have to disagree.  You would have to replay from the same workstation.
Assuming you could gain access to it (the owner was away getting a cup of
coffee, etc.), by the time you sent your captured/tweaked packets, the nonce
would be invalid.

Mike Crist
TRW
---------------------------
Mike,

	But a sniffer/ packet analyer would be well suited to this. It could
sit on and monitor the line and given enough time/effort one could interrupt
the sequence.

	josef
	jzeevi@swri.edu
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 06:58:43 EDT
From:         APPLICATIONS=PROGRAMMER=6%WAR=FIGHTING%MCCDPA=QUANTICO
              @MQG-SMTP1.USMC.MIL
Subject:      re: STDA include doesn't work

You really should patch the server that has the master with at least
maintenance patch (1) and preferably (5). Most of the docs I remember reading
always call the level (1) patch at 4.00, 4.10 and 4.11 as the "STDA" patch.

We upload an inclusion file of over 15000 entries pointing to softswitch
gateway addresses and exlusions of USERS: *PROFILE@*@* and its run fine.
Although we are currently running 4.11 (5), the same service also ran good
from release 4.00 (5) and all the intermediate upgrades until now.

GySgt McDonald
Technical Services
CDPD MCCTA Quantico, Va
(703) 640-5986
G9E205=MQGCDPAF@MQG1.USMC.MIL
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 09:54:03 EDT
From:         Lou=Janelle%Faculty%WAYNE@AUBURN.UAKRON.EDU
Subject:      TACKBOARD

We're running release 3.0 .  I'm not aware of a special release for OS/2.
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 09:37:16 CET
From:         Martin Misseyer <V67CVM10@HASARA11.BITNET>
Subject:      Banyan requester (4.11) for OS/2 2.0

Dear Netters,

I'm an OS/2 fanatic who desperately needs BANYAN OS/2 2.0 Client support.
recently we installed 4.11, but it was shipped with OS/2 Client support
for v1.2/v1.3 of OS/2. Is there a possibility to get this software executed
under OS/2 2.0, or do i need a new version of OS/2 Client software. Our
supplier isn't very fast, so if somebody knows how to (E-)mail Banyan/Vines
direclty and get some (beta) OS/2 Clientsoftware.
It is rediculous to boot every time i want to go to BANYAN. Besides i want
to use the BANYAN attached printers under OS/2 anyway.

Martin Misseyer,
Free University
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Date:         Fri, 25 Sep 1992 22:03:25 EDT
From:         "Elliott Coates" <coates@UMUC.UMD.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Syntrex

>Anyone out there using Syntrex Technologies, Inc. as their support VAR?
>All thoughts and opinions from those dealing with Syntrex would be
>appreciated.

>*******************************************************************
>* Patrick Smoker              E-Mail:   pds@admin.agad.purdue.edu *
>* MIS Manager                 Phone:    (317)494-9330             *
>* Ag. Administration          FAX:      (317)496-1104             *
>* Purdue University                                               *
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Their personnel doing on-site hardware repair for us and those handling our
software calls are highly competent.

They have a very good bulletin board in metropolitan Washington.  Bulletins,
Banyan notices, patches, etc.

There is a rumor that there is/was a deep, significant schism between Syntrex's
marketing and engineering types.  Don't know more than rumor, innuendo, back
spittle, etc. :-)

Elliott
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 10:44:12 MET
From:         HoornwegB@FACB.FHK.EUR.NL
Subject:      STDA include doesn't work

Hi there,

I'm having some difficulties with an STDA Satellite service under Vines 4.11(5).
Every night at 04:00 I'm having a download of the master under Vines 4.10(0).
Some problem however exist:
- My EXLUSIONS do not work
- My INCLUSIONS do not work

I set up the stda satellite several months ago.
In the beginning inclusions and exclusions didn't work
After a period (don't how log, several weeks) the exclusions worked for a short
 time. During this time the inclusion also worked.
After several weeks however, problems arised:
- When an inclusion mailadress was selected from within mail (using F2) the
  address diappeared when the F10 (Done and send) was pressed, resulting in a
  well known message: "There must be at least one 'to' recipient".
- Some inclusion addresses were corrupted

Saving the damaged inclusion file to a diskfile showed no errors at all.
The log of the stda satellite also checks out OK
I stopped and started the service: no effect
I broke down and rebuilded the service:
exclusions and inclusions don't work at all anymore. Same as in the beginning.

My inclusion file looks like this:

Label: HENSEN
Desc: A.A. Hensen MTB_CBW
Addr: SMTP[A.A.Hensen@cbw.mtb.eur.nl]

Label: AIKEMA
Desc: A. Aikema OOS_SV_BSD
Addr: SMTP[A.Aikema@asv.oos.eur.nl]

This worked fine in the beginning. All addresses fit the "specs" (max.
characters per line, between each address a carriage return)

The exclusions are very simple:

Users: HASNUMBERS
Users: Sample Profile@*@*

Question:

- Is there a known problem when downloading stda from 4.10(0) master
  to 4.11(5) satellite. (if so don't tell me the solution, I know)

- If not, what's causing my trouble?


Marcel Hoornweg
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Faculty of History and Study of the Arts

Internet: Hoornweg@facb.fhk.eur.nl
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 08:27:11 EST
From:         Patrick=Smoker%Admin%Ag@ADMIN.AGAD.PURDUE.EDU
Subject: re: TCP/IP & Windows

>I am interested in running TCP/IP under Windows 3.1 on my VINES network.
>Basically, I just need to telnet (but tn3270 would be nice as well). Is
>anyone aware of any products that will allow multiple telnet session
>under Windows on a VINES network?
>
>Thanks.

PC/TCP from FTP Software version 2.1 will do what you want.  The Banyan
version is supposedly shipping now.  I'm still waiting.

Pat
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 11:09:20 CDT
From:         David=Blair%ComputerSrvcs%WILL@BIGBIRD.WILL.UIUC.EDU
Subject:      re: Hackable ???

The reason that can happen is the fact that Novell V3.11 can have a DOS
partition to load from and if people use the default name and password.  A
PIRATE!! NOT A HACKER can get into the system and do some heavy damage.  It
was talked about in all the trade papers a couple of months after Novell V3.11
hit the streets.

David L. Blair
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 12:27:07 +0100
From:         Hendrik.Klompmaker@BEHEER.ZOD.WAU.NL
Subject:      re: Hackable ???

This morning, in the same Volkskrant, again there was a front-page article
that stated that after a supposed fix from N****l 'Hackers' again gained
superuser access. At least 3 PD programs should be around yet to do the trick.
Things were published in the Dutch LANMagazine.

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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 12:33:06 CET
From:         Frank=Koperdraat%it%ic.uva.nl@UVACOM01.UVA.NL
Subject:      re: Problem with user-specific security

Hi Hendrik,

It is exactly as u describe, upto and including Vines 4.11(x). In Vines 5.0
this strange, non-intuitive, defaulting has been changed. In Vines 5.0 if you
have setup group-security and set user-specific-security, the defaults for
that user are the group-settings.

Good Luck
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 10:29:23 EDT
From:         SOHIER_DANNY%CTI%ULAVAL@CAMPUS.ULAVAL.CA
Subject:      Ref: VINES & MAC : rejected printjobs

I think you need to change your default paper format to postscript in your
user profile like this :

setprint pcport /p:service_name /forms:postscript /d:delay ......

The important statement is the >> /forms:postscript << .  Also, install the
POSTFILT filter to allow ascii printing.  I know that this solved my problem
that looked a lot like yours. Good Luck.

All the best,

Danny J. Sohier
Laval University
DSOHIER@CTI.ULAVAL.CA
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