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From: ccewch@nuscc.nus.sg (Wong Chee Heng)
Subject: network printer or print server box
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:37:00 GMT

Are there printers that can hook direct to a VINES network and acts as a
network printer? OR are there print server hardware box that acts as
a PCPRINT print server?

I know there are such product for NetWare, e.g. Castelle's JetPress 
and LanPress, intel netport, etc. Just wonder if there are similar
product to work with VINES.

Thank you in advance.

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Systems Programmer
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From: dave.parsons@factory.com (Dave Parsons) 
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Subject: 250Mb tapes in Arch
Date: 2 Jan 93 16:43:00 GMT
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Reply-To: dave.parsons@factory.com (Dave Parsons) 

TO:         "Andrews, Edward A." <AndrewsE@PCMAIL.INRE.ASU.EDU> 
AE> Subject:      250Mb tapes in Archive 150? 
AE>  
AE> I seem to remember a discussion a few months back about using the DC-6250 
AE> tape cartridges in an Archive 150Mb tape drive.  Is this possible?  (I.E., 
AE> can we really get 250Mb onto a DC-6250 even though we are using the same old 
AE> 150 Mb drive unit? 
AE>  
AE> Thanks in advance, 
AE>  
AE> Ed Andrews 
AE> ASU College of Law 
 
Yep, it works just fine.   I'm informed that that the next step up is  
a 5gig drive (ARGH).  My cohorts in San Francisco are in the process  
of evaluating PowerSave software to B/U multiple servers over the  
network... looks promising (but SLOW over TR.). 
 
Dave 
 
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:33:45 CST
From:         Rick=L.=Perales%2nd=Fl%FPCM@FPCM.MED.UTH.TMC.EDU
Subject:      HDLC Server-Server

From the new guy in the Vines arena:

I've set up an HDLC connection over a leased line on two T2500. The connection
is established because when i look at "Neighbors" in MNET the second server is
listed as a neighbor over the HDLC line. Problem is i can't access any of
their services. Also MNET does not list the second server.

Any ideas?

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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:37:28 EST
From:         Ted=Kull%2575%ETS@PCLAN.ROSEDALE.ORG
Subject:      re: Open files by a VINES third party VINES service

>According to the rev 5 Service Developers guide page 2-28 the maximum
>number of open files per process is 20.

>According to the include file, limits.h, OPEN_MAX is 60.  Writing a
>testprogram the maximum number of files able to be opened is 57 plus
>the stdin, stdout and stderr handles making 60 total the same as
>MAX_OPEN.  Under rev 4.00(5) the same program can open 61 files making
>64 handles available.


I'm a little confused.  Does this translate to: you can really have 60
files open per service but Banyan tells us in the documentation that 20
is the limit i.e., the recommended/supported max is 20?
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:17:44 CET
From:         Bent=Tranberg%Data%AID@BAN.AID.NO
Subject:      re: Tails of Woe

I do remember reading something about restoring 4 file services to 5 servers.
I can't remember if it was that you could only restore a complete backup, or
that you could restore a complete service, but at least I don't think you can
restore files. ( Well, you proved you can, but...) Anyone got better memory?

Help : Is there something wrong with our SMTP service, or has there really
not been a single mail to the list since friday? Thrice before mail has been
pouring in after 3-4 days, but today your mail is the only one, Ian. We were
experimenting with our SMTP service on friday, and that's why I'm a little
sucpicious. Could it be Santa Claus? :)

Bent
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From:         Thomas=Dyckes%IS%CHI@ALOHA.CHI.OHIO-STATE.EDU
Subject:      re: Mailbox file access

From:           Patrick=Smoker%Admin%Ag%ADMIN.AGAD.PURDUE.EDU@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU
Subject:        Mailbox file access

>Does anyone know if it is possible to access the mailbox files of a
>VINES user and gather them into a single ascii file?  We need to
>collect a users mail and then transmit it overseas periodically.
>Info on any public domain, or commercial products would be appreciated.

You can redirect the lpt1 port to a file and then from within
Banyan mail print the entire folder. I understand that PRN2FILE.COM
from Ziff Communications (PC Magazine) will work for this. I believe
it is shareware. Ziff maintains a Compuserve forum (GO ZIFFNET,
I think?) with libraries that will allow you to download the utility.
I'm sure that there are other utilities around as well.


-Thomas Dyckes
 Children's Hospital - Columbus, Ohio
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Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 02:49:40 CST
From:         David=Blair%ComputerSrvcs%WILL@BIGBIRD.WILL.UIUC.EDU
Subject:      re: Packet Drivers and Ebanyan

Robert here is my $0.02 worth,

        I my configuration is the same as yours except I am using the generic
ethernet driver with PCTCP.  I can load all of the network and FTP drivers
high.  I end up with a computer that has 615Kb, not 615,000 bytes, free!! I
did this with a Gateway 486/33  Stealth, ST:M, and by rearranging the loading
order of some files.  I will send a copy of my autoexec.bat and config.sys in
a follow-up message.

Unrelated subject.  The latest word I heard on Vines 5.5 is some time this
month.

P.S.  Robert, try to open any Acer computers lately??

Have a Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!!

"Through Complexity there is Simplicity, Through Simplicity there is Complexity"
David L. Blair                  davidb@uiuc.edu         (217)-333-2565 - Voice
Computer Resource Coordinator   U of I - Col. of Comm.  (217)-333-7151 - FAX
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 11:11:50 -0800
From:         Alan Smith <alans@CORAL.USACE.MIL>
Subject:      re: HDLC Server-Server
              Server-Server" (Dec 23, 10:54)

I'd check your "Internetwork Security" restrictions in z:operate on the servers
on both ends. You need an 'unrestricted' entry to be able to get to services
other than mail on the other server.

alans

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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:13:44 CET
From:         Bent=Tranberg%Data%AID@BAN.AID.NO
Subject:      re: Banyan <-> PP <-> The World

Thank you to all who mailed me directly. As far as PP is conserned, we seem
to be on our own.

A nickname in the default group will not remove your full address with = and
% in outgoing mail. The scandinavian SMTP version we are using can remove the
group%org part from a name in the default group, but we don't want to rename
all users to something with dots, and put them all in one group, just to fix
this problem. I asked the person who 'adapted' the thing to change it a little
more so that it would search for a suitable nickname to use as sender, but that
 would be just as expensive as buying a new SMTP gateway. Maybe someone could
ask Banyan if they could do this. Anyway, there are other problems we ( or
rather, the world around us ) have with Banyan's SMTP.

I have no idea what PP is, let me have a look in the manual...

" 1.4 Etymology, PP is not an acronym. There is no truth in the rumour that
PP stands for "Postman Pat", a famous British postman..."

That was the funny part, and absolutely all I could find about the
abbreviation/acronym PP ! , but technically it is an MTA that supports "a
number of RFC 822 protocols", and X.400 '84 and '88.

If anyone out there do know something about PP, this is what we are trying at
the moment :

  Bent.Tranberg:alias Bent=Tranberg%Data%AID@banyan.aid.no 822
  Bent=Tranberg%Data%AID:synonym Bent.Tranberg@ban.aid.no 822
where banyan.aid.no is the Banyan server, and ban.aid.no is the Unix machine
with the PP MTA.

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>I hope the above product will bring all the Unix management needed in our
>current solution back to the (distributed) Vines administrators.
>
>Greetings
>Frank Koperdraat

That was about the Incognito SMTP and Domain Name Server. I couldn't agree
more. All the work that goes into managing these 'address translators' is
absolutely ridiculous. What are computers for?

Bent
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From: gary@dragon.dsh.org (Gary D. Duzan)
Subject: Re: HDLC Server-Server
Organization: Delaware State Hospital
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:24:44 GMT

In article <9212232033.AA06950@umassmed.UMMED.EDU> Daniel=Chen%COMPUTER%UMASS@BANYAN.UMMED.EDU writes:
>Stupid question:  do you have server-server lan? on both servers?
>
   We were using HDLC before we get SS-LAN, so it seems all you need is
SS-WAN. Is the interface showing activity? I've heard that sometimes
it helps to create a dummy group and then delete it to kickstart
StreetTalk. What version of Vines are you using?

                                   Gary D. Duzan
                                   Network Administrator
                                   Delaware State Hospital
From: Bent=Tranberg%Data%AID@BAN.AID.NO
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Subject: re: Banyan versus Novell
Date: 25 Dec 92 05:22:08 GMT
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Don't forget security. I consider Banyan to be a lot safer than Novell. One
of, I repeat ONE OF, the reasons for this is simply that it is a lot easier
to manage. We would not have a single Banyan network, but two or three, if
it was not for this.

Bent
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:58:10 EST
From:         Patrick=Smoker%Admin%Ag@ADMIN.AGAD.PURDUE.EDU
Subject:      Mailbox file access

Does anyone know if it is possible to access the mailbox files of a
VINES user and gather them into a single ascii file?  We need to collect a
users mail and then transmit it overseas periodically.  Info on any public
domain, or commercial products would be appreciated.

Merry Christmas!

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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:45:08 CST
From:         Steve Cochran <cochran@KATANA.PCPD.HOU.COMPAQ.COM>
Subject:      OS/2 Bound exes with Vines Toolkit?
              "Stephane=Bourque%Eng%Incognito%TEST.ARTS.SFU.CA%VM1.CC.UAKRON
              .EDU@twisto.eng.h ou.compaq.com" at Dec 16, 92 07:06:31 pm

Has anyone attempted to bind and executable that uses the 4.1x
toolkit?  I have not been able to do this successfully....
I receive a :

BIND: fatal error U1260: import by ordinal not defined: VNSAPI.180

I believe that this is due to the different library function names
under OS/2 and DOS.  I was wondering if anyone has worked around this
problem.....?


Thanks....
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From:         Craig Armstrong <craiga@SPOCK.DIS.CCCD.EDU>
Subject:      re: 250Mb tapes in Archive 150?

>
> If only we had known about the DC6250s last month...
>

Amazing how long it takes for word to get around... WHy would vendors want
you to use extended length tapes when they can sell you a higher capacity
unit? :-)

> Just to make sure we don't waste more money: What are the largest tapes that
> can be used in the Archive 150MB and 525MB tape units? ( That's the ones we
> are using. ) Are there other units that have 'improved their spesifications'?
> ( That last question just in case someone else is wondering. We are not
> planning any new types. )
>

Not sure on the 525mb units, but on the 150's 250mb tapes work fine.

> Is it possible to mix DC tapes ( 6150, 6250, 6525 ) in one FULL backup? If
> not, is it possible to use one type for the FULL backup, and another for the
> INCREMENTAL backup? We don't want to throw away all those 6150s, and we can't
> afford too many new tapes either.
>

I've never seen a problem with mixing tapes. Since bantape (see earlier
message) relies on results from the adapter, it hums along until it gets
and EOT result from the controller. Will say though I've never done a
selective restore with mixed media...

> It can be difficult to figure out how many tapes are needed for a backup,
> especially if large mail services are backed up. Are there any formulas out
> there?

Not trying to be a smartass, but the only formula that has been proven to
work is to have a tape drive with greater capacity than the combined
capacity of the drives in the server!!!
>
> Bent
>


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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:48:21 CET
From:         Frank=Koperdraat@DISC.UVA.NL
Subject:      re: Banyan <-> PP <-> The World

Hi Bent,

First let's start with a dumb question. What is PP?.
Here at the University of Amsterdam at this moment using the Vines SMTP
mailgateway have the following solution (not yet completely realized):

- Each Vines-group with user's has a streettalk-name with the organisation
  part set to the Internet domain-name. For instance the facult of phychologie
  has Internet-domain psy.uva.nl. So a Vines user in that faculty will have a
  Streettalk name in the form:
      name@group@psy.uva.nl
- If a user send mail through the an SMTP mail gateway the frim field will
  have the form:
      name%group%subdomain.uva.nl@host.....uva.nl
- The SMTP mail gateway is forced to send all mail to a Unix host. This is
  accomplished by NOT entering DNS ip numbers in the TCP/IP configuration of
  the Vines server on wich the gateway is installed.
- By a simple rule in the Unix sendmail.cfg file
      name%group%subdomain.uva.nl@host....uva.nl
  is translated to
      name@subdomain.uva.nl
This is for outgoing mail. For incoming mail again a Unix host is called to
the rescue. Using nicknames to deliver incoming mail, is very cumbersome
especially when using a single gateway for multiple subdomains. So each
subdomain is required to have a DNS, wich using aliases translate to neat
Internet mail-address, to the ugly vines SMTP mail address.

I'm planning to have a test with the Incognito SMTP mail gateway. According to
the info supplied by our Vines reseller this gateway has a feature for using
aliases on outgoing mail. Other features (binary attachments using
uuencode/uudecode) end-to-end encryption are also promising. Furthermore they
have a DNS-service for Vines.
I hope the above product will bring all the Unix management needed in our
current solution back to the (distributed) Vines administrators.

Greetings
Frank Koperdraat
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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 07:53:58 EST
From:         Patrick=Smoker%Admin%Ag@ADMIN.AGAD.PURDUE.EDU
Subject:      re: network printer or print server box

>Are there printers that can hook direct to a VINES network and acts as a
>network printer? OR are there print server hardware box that acts as
>a PCPRINT print server?
>
>I know there are such product for NetWare, e.g. Castelle's JetPress
>and LanPress, intel netport, etc. Just wonder if there are similar
>product to work with VINES.

Wong Chee Heng:

There is a third party solution currently available from Digital Products
called LANSprint for VINES.  Essentially, it a hardware/software solution
that can be installed into any PC and used as a workstation or dedicated
print server. The print speeds are really quite remarkable, and
LANSprint takes the lion's share of the load off the CPU when installed on
a workstation. It is available with 1 or 2 parallel ports and simply
replaces the Banyan PC Print.

Digital Products will also be shipping a product called NETSprint 100 for
VINES somewhere around March of 1993.  This product simply plugs into
Ethernet or Token Ring and allows you to plug serial/parallel devices into
it.  They are currently shipping this product for Novell and AppleTalk.
The high end product (NetSprint 200) simultaneously supports multiple
protocols including Novell and AppleTalk, with VINES, and TCP/IP coming in
Quarter one of 1993.

Digital Products, Inc.
411 Waverley Oaks Road
Waltham, MA      02154
1-800-243-2333

This is the only company I know of that offers, or is planning to offer,
the VINES supported products your looking for.  My hopes are that Banyan
will support network attached printers within it's NOS SOON!  VINES for
SCO UNIX already does because it takes advantage of the network printer
support in SCO UNIX.

Good luck.

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Date:         Thu, 31 Dec 1992 11:18:23 CST
From:         Rick Stoen <stoen@KATANA.PCPD.HOU.COMPAQ.COM>
Subject:      OS/2 Mail API

Has anyone had success using the Vines mail API under OS/2 1.X or 2.X?
I have a program that works correctly if compiled as a real mode DOS
app, but does not work if compiled as a protected mode OS/2 app. The
VnsStoreMailEnvelope function is returning a 3019 (envelope not found)
error. We are running Vines 4.11(5), with LA3 for the OS/2 2.0 clients.

Since the OS/2 mail.exe works I guess it must be possible. Assuming of
course that mail.exe was compiled using the toolkit.
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From:         Jon Freivald <jaflrn!jaf@UUNET.UU.NET>
Subject: re: 250Mb tapes in Archive 150?

Bent=Tranberg <Bent=Tranberg%DATA.RAIN.COM@vm1.cc.uakron.edu> writes:

> Is it possible to mix DC tapes ( 6150, 6250, 6525 ) in one FULL backup? If
> not, is it possible to use one type for the FULL backup, and another for the
> INCREMENTAL backup? We don't want to throw away all those 6150s, and we can't
> afford too many new tapes either.

I've been using 1 6250 & 1 600A to do full backups on one server for
quite some time now...  No problems.


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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 13:51:00 -0700
From:         "Andrews, Edward A." <AndrewsE@PCMAIL.INRE.ASU.EDU>
Subject:      250Mb tapes in Archive 150?

I seem to remember a discussion a few months back about using the DC-6250
tape cartridges in an Archive 150Mb tape drive.  Is this possible?  (I.E.,
can we really get 250Mb onto a DC-6250 even though we are using the same old
150 Mb drive unit?

Thanks in advance,

Ed Andrews
ASU College of Law
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:52:38 EST
From:         Ted=Kull%2575%ETS@PCLAN.ROSEDALE.ORG
Subject:      Open files by a VINES third party VINES service

Anybody know if there is any truth to the statement that Oracle has told us
that they can only have 11 files open at a time due to a limit imposed by
VINES?
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:40:09 PST
From:         MA=Crist%Info_Sys%STG_IS@DSO3.DSD.TRW.COM
Subject:      re: HDLC Server-Server

Daniel,

Actually, I think he needs Server to Server WAN on both servers.

Mike Crist
TRW
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