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From: gaf+@pitt.edu (Jerry A Flotta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Poor response time problem.
Date: 8 Apr 92 13:37:46 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: gaf@pmax1.cis.pitt.edu


 >We are experiencing slowdowns (poor response time) on our 8086 and 8088
 >based machines (IBM PS/2 mod 25, AT&T 6300, Xerox) while using Lan Workplace
 >version 4.0.  Our other 286/386 pc's do not incur the problem.   Choice of 
 >hosts for telneted applications does not make a difference.  Users do not
 >have same poor response time problem when running Clarkson tn3270.  Does 
 >anyone have any clues?

More information:  An observable symptom is the loss of IP packets.  We
see (using NETSTAT) that lost packets are causing re-transmission.  The loss
occurs somewhere between the ethernet card and the cpu. The choice of
ethernet cards does not seem to make a difference.  At this point we suspect 
Lan Workplace.  Has anyone else encountered this kind of slowdown? 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: stuart@coral.cs.jcu.edu.au (Stuart Kemp)
Subject: Capture problems: FormFeed in separate job??
Organization: James Cook University
Date:  6 Apr 92 23:35:56 GMT


Novell 3.11 (100 User), latest pserver

Problems with 'capture' (ti=6, byte stream, adding formfeed)

We are using 'capture' with Lotus123, and are explicitly adding a form-feed
(coz 123 does not do this). All is okay if there are only a few users
printing, but not so good when many print jobs are generated.

Looking at the print queue, it shows the 123 print job, but it appears that
a *separate* job is generated for the appended FormFeed (well, actually
there are 19 bytes in the file; haven't looked at 'em yet).  When many users
print there is no guarantee that this FormFeed job is immediately in the
queue after the 'main' job, so it is possible to get things printed in (say)
the following order:

	User1_Job, User2_Job, User3_Job, User1_FF, User2_FF, User3_FF

This totally defeats the object of appending a FormFeed in the first place!
Even better is you print banner pages ... you get one for your FF job.
What a bargain!!

Why is a separate job generated for the FF alone, instead of simply
appending it to the 'main' job? I consider this to be a bug!! What do you
think? Anyone got a solution to this?

-SRK

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From: hdo@ws30-sys4.oce.nl (Eric Dortmans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Netware-NFS V1.2 crashes
Date: 9 Apr 92 11:48:39 GMT
Organization: OCE Nederland B.V.

We will be using Netware NFS version 1.2 to print to our Unix based print
servers. However, our Novell file server crashed several times. 
Before loading Netware NFS, I had never seen the file server crashing, while 
I had the TCP/IP modules loaded ( but not used, waiting for NW NFS). 
After loading we get about once a week a crash. 
The following message did appear: 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
System halted :   date .....   time ....... 
Abend: Nonmaskable Interrupt (Parity error) Processor exception.  
Parity error was generated by an I/O check.  
Running process: TCP/IP packet process (2x) or TCP/IP Console 1 process (1x).  
Stack: 91 4A etc.  
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
CONFIGURATION:
The file server is a Compaq 386/25e, 3com503 Ethernet board, and Novell
Netware 3.11 (20 user version). I loaded the drivers twice for both
frame-types (Ethernet_II and 802.3). ":PROTOCOL" gives next output:
Protocol:IPX Frametype: Virtual_Lan    Protocol-ID= 0
Protocol:IPX Frametype: Ethernet_802.3 Protocol-ID= 0
Protocol:IPX Frametype: Ethernet_II    Protocol-ID= 8137
Protocol:IP  Frametype: Ethernet_II    Protocol-ID= 800
Protocol:ARP Frametype: Ethernet_II    Protocol-ID= 806
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

My system passes the Compaq diagnostics correct, the 3C503 Card diagnostics
were also OK.

Question: 
I would like to know if other people had crashes too after loading Netware NFS ?

Ruurd van der Meer
rvdm@oce.nl

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: comptec91055@camins.camosun.bc.ca
Subject: network id soft.
Organization: Camosun College
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 00:25:59 GMT



		Hello Hardware gurus and hackers:

			I am attempting to write a small routine which can be
executed on any pc that returns information on the resident network card (type
mem. cap. etc.)  (assembly/c routine).. My problem is that I am unsure of which
interrupts the card takes over when it is installed, whether or not these inter-
rupts are from the dos vector table or directly from the cpu, and how they can
be used to access card info.  If anyone has the time I would very much appreciate
 any information that could be provided.  I will send anyone that responds a copy
of the final program which does a series of hardware checks and verifications
on the pc, including nice output (not that anyone responding would need this,
but what the heck..)   If there are any ideas could you please e-mail them.
 			Thanks in advance,
	
			D. Rozee
From: vfoao07h@VAX.CSUN.EDU (George Mansoor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Modem on Novell Network
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:05:25 GMT
Reply-To: vfoao07h@VAX.CSUN.EDU
Organization: Cal State Northridge

In article <1992Apr13.205619.7054@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>, ejhupper@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Huppertz) writes:
>In article <582.469.uupcb@grapevine.lrk.ar.us> jim.wenzel@grapevine.lrk.ar.us (Jim Wenzel)  writes:
>>  [re: Shiva Netmodem] 
>>  According to the  literature that I have just  received they list both
>>  Mac and PC  versions. Be happy to fax  a copy if anyone would  care to
>>  look at it.
>>
>Okay, it appears the only solution is to purchase some product that will
>do the trick.  I was really interested in some way to put an internal modem
>inside a dedicated 286, and using software such as Fresh's Modem Assist, 
>make that modem available for anyone, Mac or PC, to attach to. 
>
>From the responses I've seen, it looks like I'll have to wait till some
>enterprising soul decides to write a program to do the trick.
>
>-E. 
>
>-- 
>Eric J. Huppertz, Systems Manager | "I turned my air conditioner around and it
>Daily Vidette, Illinois State U.  |  got cold out. The weatherman said 'I don't 
>ejhupper@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu     |  understand, it was supposed to be 80  
>(309) 438-8565                    |  today,' and I said 'Oops.'"  -S. Wright 

That's what Modem Assit from Fresh Technologies is supposed to do (allow to 
share pooled modems).  Also, NMP^2 from Network Products Corporation does the 
same as does Lan Modem and Cross Connect from Cross Communications Co.  

I have been looking at pooled modem or shared modem solutions for my 
university.  


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George Mansoor
Cal State Northridge
Business Affairs Systems - BMGT
gmansoor@vax.csun.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: opto1k@Rosie.UH.EDU
Subject: Re: IDE and SCSI under ELS 2.15
Reply-To: opto1k@Rosie.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 14:48:54 GMT

Have you heard of Disk Manager/N? this software from Ontrack Systems
modifies Novell drivers and allows SCSI and IDE drive installations on
fileservers running Netware 2.xx.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: greg@irl.ise.ufl.edu (Greg O'Rear)
Subject: V3.11 server deleted files problem
Reply-To: greg@ise.ufl.edu (Greg O'Rear)
Organization: Industrial Research Lab - Univ. of Florida
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 12:13:17 GMT

I posted this query a few weeks ago, but I didn't get any info that turned out
to be useful.  I have a 3.11 server with a 330 MB hard drive; the machine is
a 80386/33, which was down this morning.  The error log had the following:
	...Severity=5
	1.1.42 Volume /SYS out of disk space
	35952k of disk space is in use by deleted files
	No deleted files have been deleted long enough to purge yet

Needless to say, the above is a complete lie.  Also, my AUTOEXEC includes:
	set minimum file delete wait time=0
	set file delete wait time=0

I want to know why the server thinks my free space is full of deleted files.
Any ideas?  This is getting annoying.  Thanks for any info.
--
Greg O'Rear
Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida
orear@ise.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: greg@irl.ise.ufl.edu (Greg O'Rear)
Subject: Server loss of free space (followup)
Reply-To: greg@ise.ufl.edu (Greg O'Rear)
Organization: Industrial Research Lab - Univ. of Florida
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 13:58:42 GMT

This is a followup to my previous message asking for help.  To summarize, my
server crashes because it thinks it's out of free space, and it thinks what
space is in use by deleted files isn't available because the files haven't been
deleted for long enough, even though I have the set (file) delete minimum wait
time=0.  Well, here's some more info:

This morning, the server was down again due to the above.  I rebooted, ran
VREPAIR and all that, and brought the server up.  After a few minutes, I began
to hear constant disk access on the server.  MONITOR showed utilization way up,
and a high number of dirty cache buffers.  CHKVOL revealed that I was losing
free space at a rate of about 1 MB per minute (but deleted space remained the
same).  All this pointed to some process creating files and using up the disk,
but no user process was doing any such thing.  Are there any system processes
that might account for this?  Bad TTS backout info?  Any clues how I can fix
this?  Should I buy the new OnTrack NetUtils for NetWare V3.11?  Thanks.
--
Greg O'Rear
Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida
orear@ise.ufl.edu
From: rick@mathcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: FTP file server...
Date: 8 Apr 92 23:35:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: mathcs.1992Apr8.233535.14998
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.

In article <1992Apr08.174345.27825@slate.mines.colorado.edu> cjmarsha@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Charles Marshall) writes:
>Okay, I was thinking last night what I would do with a Telnet session
>to the file server.  Nothing (except a remote session).  Another source
>quoted about $5,000 for Novell's NFS software.  That's a lot of money
>for not a lot of bang.  What does NFS stand for?

NFS stands for Network File System, a protocol for sharing file systems
amongst diverse machines across a network.  NFS, which is stateless,
was championed by Sun and is still primarily in the domain of the
UNIX world.

>My goal is to make the file server disk transparent to either a UN*X host
>and/or to our VAX/VMS mainframe.  Am I asking too much of the software?

No, but TANSTAAFL.  NFS costs $$$ no matter who sells it to you.  It is
moderately expensive as an add-on to any *NIX flavor, and quite
expensive on Netware.  NFS is rather complex, and is also a niche product
at the moment.  Relatively few buyers to pay for those development costs.
When it becomes a de facto part of all NOS's, then the cost should be
reasonable.

>Charles
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: ifkm@hippo.ru.ac.za (Andrew Murdoch)
Subject: Print manager
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Distribution: global
Date: 15 Apr 92 13:46:09 GMT
Summary: Print manager
Keywords: Print manager

Is there any utility out there that will help in managing print jobs?
In particular, I would like the system to write to a log file every time
someone prints to a laser printer, logging the number of pages and the
username of the person sending the print job, and the print queue used.
We are using Novell 2.15 Rev. C.
Please E-mail responses.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: alan@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Alan Strassberg)
Subject: Re: FTP file server...
Organization: Lockheed, Santa Cruz, CA.
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 19:17:45 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.233535.14998@mathcs.sjsu.edu> rick@mathcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner) writes:

>NFS stands for Network File System, a protocol for sharing file systems
>amongst diverse machines across a network.  NFS, which is stateless,
>was championed by Sun and is still primarily in the domain of the
>UNIX world.
>
>>My goal is to make the file server disk transparent to either a UN*X host
>>and/or to our VAX/VMS mainframe.  Am I asking too much of the software?
[..stuff deleted..]

	If you're willing to sacrifice an XT, Son of Stan's Own Server 
	(SOSS) is a public domain NFS implementation that can export 
	NetWare volumes. Contact your friendly local ftp site.

					alan
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: rick@mathcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner)
Subject: Re: Help with Novell to TCP/IP-SMTP
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:44:05 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.143222.15740@ohnews.hydro.on.ca> harold.w.asmis@hydro.on.ca writes:
>In article <1992Apr06.204659.26405@ka3ovk> albers@ka3ovk.UUCP (Jon Albers) writes:
>>
>>Hello.  I am a systems admin on UNIX minis, and we have a TCP/IP network
>>that includes several minis and micros running UNIX.  We are adding
>>an internet connection to the mini network, and wish to be able to pass
>>e-mail in and out.  Now I've got the UNIX end covered, but part of
>>this project is a Novell LAN of PCs.  We have the hardware to connect
>>the Novell lan to the TCP/IP LAN, but I don't think we have the right
>>software on the Novell LAN to send and receive SMTP mail.  I know very 
>>little about Novell, so I am not even sure what questions to ask, and the
>>SA of the Novell LAN is just as much in the dark about TCP/IP. 
>>
>>So, how can I get SMTP mail going between these two networks?  I'm sure
>>someone out there has done it: how?
>>
>>						Jon
>
>Hi, we're in the same boat, re. Novell and Unix mail.  We have over
>150 servers running ms-mail on the novell side, and the only 
>immediate way to connect them to smtp is to buy a very expensive
>conversion package for each server-postoffice! (they don't talk
>directly to each other, but work through a mess of pc "shuttlers").
>I think they're working on a x.400 hub, but that could take forever.

You should not need to buy much of anything.  If your MS-MAIL is the
new MS-MAIL (Network Courier, renamed and slightly altered), it should be
an MHS mail client (Network Courier was, so, unless MS decided to castrate
yet another product then it still should be an MHS client).
Then all you need is a MHS<->SMTP gateway, and 
Charon is a 'free' MHS-SMTP gateway product.  Get Charon, get an
old PC, and install your own gateway to get you from UNIX to Novell and
back again.

>IMHO, if I were starting from scratch, I would forget putting the
>e-mail on novell, much the same way that we're dropping it for 
>heavy database work (using Unix database servers).  Users would then
>just log onto a unix mail server, like they'll have to log onto
>a unix database server anyways.
>
>harold.w.asmis@hydro.on.ca
>(my opinions only, don't sue me!)  

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: iqbal@seas.gwu.edu (Iqbal Qazi)
Subject: Re: Vrepair under NW 3.11--how much time?
Organization: George Washington University
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 00:58:25 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.160544.10688@doug.cae.wisc.edu> jverdega@cae.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Verdegan) writes:
>In article <1992Apr7.163033.24314@sci34hub.sci.com> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>>[...]
>and to run VREPAIR on a ~1.9MB volume takes anywhere
>from 30 minutes (if we offer the proper supplications to the scuzzy gods) to--
>and I'm not kidding here--eight hours.  Granted, the latter case is rare, but

Uhhh....Are you sure that's not a ~1.9*GB* volume?  I mean, who would
make a volume 1.9 Meg?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: mcollins@novell.com (Marty Collins)
Subject: Re: Gateway with 3.11
Organization: Novell Inc., San Jose, Califonia
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 16:41:53 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.184853.1343@u.washington.edu> rexw@u.washington.edu writes:
>
>I'm sorry for such an old subject on a well worn topic.  I didn't
>listen when everyone was talking about it because we were nowhere
>near doing it, but things have changed.  I'm trying to set up
>a server as a gateway to pass IP packets and I'm having trouble.
>It doesn't seem consistant enough to figure out what the problem is.
>Here is the setup:
>
>______________________________________________
>      |                      WAN ethernet channel addr = 144.169
>      | Bridge
>      |
>--------------------  Ethernet segment addr = 144.169.14
>    |       |
>    |      Unix(etc)
>    |
>    | Server gateway (Novell)
>    |
>--------------------  Ethernet segment addr = 144.169.13
>        |    |
>        PC   PC(etc)
>
>Here are the commands I put to Novell 3.11
>:load tcpip forward=yes
>:bind ip to ipnet addr=144.169.14.27 mask=ff.ff.ff.0
>:bind ip to ipxnet addr=144.169.13.26 mask=ff.ff.ff.0
>
>The problem is I can't get to anyone on the WAN from segment 13 and 
>sometimes I can't even ping the other side of the server.
>Any and all help would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.


Have you specified a default gateway(router) for the PC on segment 13?

If the TCP/IP software on the pc is Lan Workplace for Dos then in the 
net.cfg file the line under PROTOCOL TCPIP
				ip_router would denote a default gateway.


This should be the ip address of the NIC in the server on the segment 13 or
144.169.13.26.

What are you trying to connect to on the WAN side?

If this host does not issue or listen to RIP packets then you must statically
tell the HOST of the 13 segment. You should see something in the routing
tables on this host for segment 13 like:

       DEST		GATEWAY		COST		INT
       144.169.13.0	144.169.14.7     ?		 ?

If this is not in you table then the remote host does not know how to
send a packet back to segment 144.169.13.

>
>Rex Warren
>rexw@hardy.u.washington.edu
>Please don't tell me to look at NetWare v3.11 TCP/IP Transport Supervisors
>Guide.  That's were I got this configuration.


		WHY IS IT THAT WE CAN PUT A MAN ON THE MOON,
		BUT WE CAN'T PUT METAL IN A MICROWAVE.

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From: hberg@polisci.pol.umn.edu (Bob Hammarberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Sailing under false banner
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:31:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: polisci.hberg.93
Organization: Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota

I run a lab (w. Netware 3.11) where students can sign in on any machine, 
using their own login name + password.

The problem is that the name of the first person to use a given machine 
appears as the Banner in the Current Print Job Entries on Pconsole, even 
though the current user/printer may be someone completely different.  This 
makes managing the printqueue extremely difficult: you don't know whose name 
appears on whose printjob in the queue.

I've tried ENDCAP ALL on logout, but that didn't help.

Bug, feature, or haven't I read the manual closely enough?
From: smithnathanc@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Network Battletech - Update...
Date: 14 Apr 92 03:10:45 GMT
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

In article <1992Apr5.151210.1193@bvc.edu>, smithnathanc@bvc.edu writes:
> 
> Hello,
> 	Does anyone know what happened to the Battletech-like network game 
> that was supposed to become available.  For a while last fall every 
> magazine had pictures of it and were making a big deal out of it.  It 
> looked really interesting.  So is it a product, a "to-be-released" product 
> or total vaporware?  If it can be acquired does anyone know where?
> Curious again.
> 
> 					-Nate

The original reference to this was in "Compute" magazine I believe.  
Someone has responded and people who are interested might want to check out 
the rec.games.xtank.play* newsgroup.  This runs on more powerful graphics 
workstations - UNIX systems.  I still have not learned anything more about 
the Novell Version.  

					-Nate