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From: Mahoney@emdisle.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Mahoney)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: resolv files
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 16:44:18 PDT
Organization: The Emerald Isle BBS, Tucson, AZ (602) 749-8638

In a message of <Dec 30 12:01> (richard hajinlian) writes to All:

 rh>Can anyone help with the resolv/host files?  what should the resolv file
 rh>look like?  And on which machine(s) do they live.  And if you say on the
 rh>client resolv file "nameserver 192.192...." what software do you start
 rh>on the server that will do the name lookup?

   There are two ways to resolve host names. The first is to have a hosts 
file on each machine that handles it. The file is made up of just the IP
address followed by the hostname. A third optional parameter can be used
to define an alias for the machine. This file resides in the etc directory.

   The second approach is to have another machine resolve names for you.
To do this, you need a file called resolv in the directory pointed to by
the etc environment variable. This file normally only contains two lines.

        domain my.domain.com
        nameserver x.xxx.xxx.xxx

The first line defines your own domain name and the second defines which 
host provides name services. If you have more than one nameserver in your
domain you can have multiple nameserver lines.

   It is permissible to have both a hosts file and a resolv file. That way
if the host isn't located by the nameserver your own hosts file will be 
checked. 

   The resolv file on the nameserver should be present but empty, and this
machine should run the named daemon all the time to respond to queries from
other hosts. It uses a series of files that constitute its database. The
first is named.boot which points to the other files that make up the name-
server's database. The other files have forward and reverse name resolution
data in them. You can also optionally define a cached upstream nameserver
to which higher level name requests are passed.
 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: gwalsh@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Gerald J. Walsh)
Subject: "Shutdown" doesn't work when using ODINSUP
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:44:17 GMT


Hi!

I think this question may have been asked before, but since I just 
recently added this newsgroup to my already HUGE list of newsgroups to
keep track of, I didn't see any previous messages.

Getting back on track....

I have a 386/33 that is running OS/2 2.0 and I've just managed to get
IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1 to run concurrently with the NetWare Requestor using
ODINSUP.

My problem is that I cannot use the "shutdown" option to properly bring
down my OS/2 system before turning off the machine.  When I select 
shutdown, it asks me if this is what I want to do (I select continue)
and then it spins the disk for about 2 seconds and stops.  I'm left
at the desktop and I can continue just as if I never selected shutdown.

If I run *ONLY* the NetWare Requestor, I can shutdown fine.
If I run *ONLY* the IBM TCP/IP, I can shutdown fine.
Together, and with ODINSUP, I'm stuck.

Sound familiar?  Better yet - got a solution!?

Thanks for your time!


Gerald J. Walsh                     | Internet: gwalsh@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov
Jet Propulsion Laboratory           | Phone   : (818) 354-3913
RF and Microwave Subsystems Section | Fax     : (818) 354-2825
M/S 238-528                         | 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: ernst@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Ernst Kloecker)
Subject: Both protocols IPX/SPX and TCP/IP on OS/2 machine ?
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:03:55 GMT

Hi,

in my new project I need to have both protocols, IPX/SPX and TCP/IP, on one
OS/2 machine with one network adapter (16-bit SMC). At the moment I am
running OS/2 1.32. I will update to OS/2 2.1x later. The TCP/IP product I
am using is IBM TCP/IP 1.21 for OS/2 1.32 and later.

IPX/SPX is needed to connect to a Netware 3.1 server for both file access
and access to an Oracle DBMS running on the Netware server.

TCP/IP will be used for an RPC-based application and to import/export
NFS file systems.

I heard about ODI drivers for OS/2. Is that what I need or are there any
better multi-protocol solutions ?

The same problem will arise for DOS/Windows clients at a later stage of the
project. Is there a similar solution ?


Thanks for any info, Ernst.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: robert.heuman@rose.com (robert heuman)
Subject: IBM OS2 Documentation
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:17:59 GMT
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Date Entered: 12-30-92 10:07
Have just gotten through reading the 3 main volumes of documentation 
for IBM OS/2 Advanced LAN Version 3... My task was to discover what 
needed to be changed to make the product as secure as possible.  My 
simple comment is - IBM, please put it all in one PLACE!

Volume 1 was installation. Much needs to be figured out, because of 
all of the possible conditions that IBM feels need to be referenced.
Volume 2 was parameters. Most need to be changed.
Volume 3 was procedures. Most need to be waded through to figure out 
what is needed re a secure install.

Please, give me one simple start to finish list, without all of the 
'IF YOU HAVE XYZ INSTALLED..."  Put those in a separate chapter (or 2 
or 3 or 4 or ...).  Assume I have a plain vanilla computer, without a 
prior version, with enough hard drive space, and with OS/2 Version 
2.0.  Go from there, and give me a nice, simple, install procedure, 
or is this too much to ask for?  Find a copy of the INSTALL for 
WordPerfect, or Windows, or almost any NON-IBM product, and try to 
emulate it.  DO NOT GIVE ME MAIN-FRAME TYPE documentation.  (Much less 
a stack of 8.5"*11" paper 15 cm or so high, giving me a hernia to 
boot, of and, ifs and buts.)

And even worse, I tried looking up security in the master index and 
found two minor references, with nothing that meant I could have a 
secure installation.

BTW, the default installation does NOT have an audit trail, does NOT 
disable GUEST properly, does not expire passwords, and sets the 
minimum password length at an insulting (and easily attacked) minimum. 
It is NOT secure. I'm not even certain that once 'correctly' 
configured (if I have figured it out 'correctly') that it will be 
secure.  Nor do I have a way to determine that I have figured it out 
correctly.

If ANYONE out there, including IBM (any country or state or facility 
can jump in, including Boca Raton), has the setup for MAXIMUM 
security, please provide it, so I can determine if I have guessed 
correctly.

Thanks in advance for any replys, and feel free to disagree with MY 
views on the quality of the printed documentation.

Bob
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From: loflin (Don Loflin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: IBM's "rsh" still broken, what's the story ?
Date: 21 Dec 92 16:44:19 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin

In article <92350.224934RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at> RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at (FLATSCHER Rony) writes:
>A couple of months ago someone posted in this group that IBM's "rsh" of
>TCP/IP would not work properly.
>
>At our site we are trying to backup the OS/2-machines using GTAK's tar,
>which even backups extended attributes. As the present implementation of
>this GNU tar does not allow utilizing a remote tape via IBM's TCP/IP (A.
>Kaiser told me today in a note, that the implementation is 4 to 6 months
>away, at least), I tried to follow K.U. Rommel's advice to pipe the
>OS/2-tar-output via "rsh" to the tape in question, which resides on a Unix-
>machine. He mentioned problems in respect to IBM's "rsh".
>
>Guess what, "rsh" still does not work (have TCP/IP 1.2.1, CSD UN29511). We
>get the SYS1805 ("The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.") error
>(US version of OS/2 plus golden SP).
>

IBM TCP/IP's RSHD doesn't seem to work either -- if you "rsh tar -c 
-f con . >~/test.tar", after a bit, the RSHD session starts beeping
and the rsh never finishes on the Unix host.  

The problem seems to be in the RSHD/REXECD implementation -- the screen
output in displayed in the RSHD session, and then echoed to the RSH
socket (apparently).  Have you ever tried TYPEing a binary file?  It
tends to cause the same symptom.  What RSHD/REXECD need is a switch
to override the default implementation method and return only output
from STDOUT to the RSH socket.  This would allow the use of "nice"
programs which really do output to STDOUT instead of doing direct
screen i/o.  

What I suggest is that RSHD/REXECD define a device driver which they
will read from without echoing to the session e.g. 'rcon'.  Then TAR
& other filters could be used by outputting to the file '/dev/rcon'.
The rcon device driver would be very simple to write.   For now, I
think if I pipe the ouput of TAR into UUENCODE first, I should be
able to send data with no problem (although more slowly).

As for REXEC/RSH, I have found that RSH will not accept input at
all (at least from a 'cat >tmpfile' command, executed from a shell
script on the Unix box).  REXEC on the other, will take input, but
only from the keyboard.  I can execute my above script via REXEC and 
type stuff & it will get put in the file -- but if I try to pipe TAR
into the rexec, it just doesn't work -- the command still sits waiting
for me to type something.  If I use CON instead of -, TAR outputs to
the screen, but nothing is sent to the rexec.

-------
Don Loflin
loflin@emx.cc.utexas.edu
(512) 471-3241 x413
Just my opinions...
From: "richard hajinlian" <richard.hajinlian@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: resolv files
Date: 28 Dec 92 16:42:37 EST
Reply-To: "richard hajinlian" <richard.hajinlian@channel1.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

I've got two os/2 CD beta machines over 802.3 net (moe + larry).
Moe is the server.  I would like to get the resolv/hosts files the way
they should be.  The IBM online doc is weak in this area.

Can anyone help with the resolv/host files?  what should the resolv file
look like?  And on which machine(s) do they live.  And if you say on the
client resolv file "nameserver 192.192...." what software do you start
on the server that will do the name lookup?

Obviously I'm confused on the issue of domain name resolution
installation.  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.                            Rich.
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From: platinum@montage.UUCP (Doug Swallow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: IBM TCP/IP NFS & Extended Attributes
Distribution: world
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 20:38:34 GMT
Organization: Software Environments, Inc.

I recently noticed that extended attributes seem to not be supported by
IBM's TCP/IP NFS package. For whatever reason in the past 4 months I never
have copied files from my HPFS volume _to_ a mounted NFS volume, I always
copied _from_ an NFS volume. So I never got the warning about non-support
of extended attributes.

Is this really the case, or is there a way to configure things so that they
are supported?

If EA's are not supported, will they be supported in a future release?

I am using version 1.2.1 with CSD2274 applied on both systems.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Percy)
Subject:  Help: 3c503 card and Requester
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:31:08 GMT

Until today, we had a thin Ethernet Novell LAN, and with the BNC
connection into my 3c503 adapter, the default configuration of the
Netware Requester worked fine by simply including the loading of
3c503.sys in the netware statements in config.sys.

We are converting to a 10baseT setup, and can have multiple protocols
(IPX and IP) so that we can run our Novell Network and also be connected
to our campus backbone (each workstation will have its own IP number --
mine will be 130.127.148.142).  Hardware and network decisions are made
for me...

Problem:  to acomplish this, we've plugged in an external 802.3
transceiver into the AUI port on the 3c503 card, and an RJ45 cable into
that (from the 10baseT box).  The BNC connection is no more and is
detached.  Now, I ran a little utility 3c503.exe in DOS to tell the card
that it should use the external transceiver, and when I boot DOS, I can
have everything and it all works fine using the DOS ODI drivers (LSL,
3c503, odipkt, ipxodi).

Under OS/2, however, I can't seem to make the Requester talk through the
AUI port instead of the BNC port -- it eventually dies trying to find
something to attach to.  My main problem is that our network people are
anti-OS/2 (or at least OS/2 ignorant), and there seems to be no
information/documentation about my card WRT OS/2.  I can't even get to
my server with IPX only, let alone use two protocols.
 
Can anyone out there give me a hint? 
Question 1:  How can I make OS/2 requester know that it should use the
AUI port and external transceiver for 10baseT?  
Question 2:  Any hints on getting IPX and IP protocols working at the
same time?

Changes to CONFIG.SYS?  NET.CFG?  PROTOCOL.INI?

Please help.

Mike Percy             | grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu  | I don't know about
Sr. Systems Analyst    | mspercy@clemson.clemson.edu | your brain, but mine
Info. Sys. Development | mspercy@clemson.BITNET      | is really...bossy.
Clemson University     | (803) 656-3780              | (Laurie Anderson)

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: A1.MCL@isumvs.iastate.edu 
Subject: Re: Lan Server + Apple LaserWriter IINTX
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:24:42 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.180818.9903@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,
tg2r@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Todd P. Greenwald) writes:
>Has anyone successfully installed an AppleLaserWriter IINTX postscript
>printer on a Lan Server network.
>
>Initially, I created a net printer which, on the server, pointed to COM1
>(the printer is serial).  I could get the server and requesters to
>print to the queue successfully from Word Perfect 5.1 if they were
>printing small documents.  Only 2 pages would print for larger documents.
>The server can print anything successfully if pointed directly to COM1
>(but this ties up the printer and jams the queue for all requesters).
>
>I've played with printbuftime etc, as IBM thinks this is a timing problem;
>but no luck.  I've considered turning the printer into a sharable serial
>device and have clients write directly to COM1, but we have several Dos
>Lan Requester machines on line, and IBM tells me this is not possible for
>them.
>
>Any help here would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Todd Greenwald M.D.
>University of Virginia Hospitals

To me, this sounds like a handshake problem.  Might wnat to verify
what handshake the printer is using (hardware or XON/XOFF) and make sure
OS/2 is set the same from in the printer object.  You will also want
to double check the cable, and do you also have a REDIRECT printer
object as defined in the On-line command reference under SPOOL.

I have also had some trouble sending documents from WP 5.1 from
an OS/2 Requester to a Postscript printer.  We had to print to
a file called LPT1.OS2, LPT2.OS2, etc. to get WP to print all the time to
a postscript printer

Just some rambling ideas...
Mike Long
Iowa State University
From: Allyn@cup.portal.com (Allyn Mark Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: OS/2 TCP/IP v1.2.1 & Sun
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 11:22:03 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

The company I work for has 2 local area networks.  One network is
token ring and is where the OS/2 machines live, the other is ethernet
which is where all our Sun workstations are.

We use a PS/2 Model 70 to bridge between the two networks.  The Model 70
is running:

	- OS/2 1.3
	- LAN Server 2.0 (running as an additional server)
	- IBM TCP/IP v1.2.1 (with the CSD applied I believe)

We use the Model 70 to mount directories on our Sun file server to move
files back and forth between the two networks (it's slow, but it works).
There is no problem mounting and accessing directories on the Sun if you
are working on the Model 70.  However, if you try to access these mounted
directories from a remote workstation (i.e. execute a "dir" command)
via shared drives the following behavior occurs:

	- Only a subset of the files/directories appear.  Other
	  files/directories that exist are not listed.
	- Long numeric strings appear (e.g. 56723419) where the file
	  name would normally be.

I have noticed that freshly created directories will show up properly so
the problem seems to involve the existing directories.

This has me puzzled.  Any suggestions?

Allyn Lai
allyn@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: jhlee@rose.handy.co.kr (Lee Joo Hee)
Subject: Help! Slow NetWare Access in VDM
Organization: HandySoft Institute of Technology, HandySoft Corp.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 07:55:41 GMT

Hi, there.

I installed NetWare Requester for OS/2 2.0. It works fine.
But in DOS box, some programs like Norton Desktop for DOS starts up very 
slow and when exiting that program, it generates Invalid Instruction trap.
If I remove NetWare Requester for OS/2 2.0 and login to network with 
IPX/NETX on dos box, everything goes well.
What happen to my NetWare Requester for OS/2 2.0?.

I installed NetWare requester for OS/2 2.0 Prerelease Requester first,
then installed NSD 201(NSD 201 doesn't have all the files required).

	thanks.
	jhlee@rose.handy.co.kr
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From: gt8834a@prism.gatech.EDU (Cott Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: Video board, Beta 2.1, Networking
Date: 25 Dec 92 18:33:06 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.os2
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In <1992Dec25.130018.7891@news.columbia.edu> Fidel Villa (fiv2@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu) writes:

>Please clarify : How does the 32-bit graphics engine work when you have 
>a 16-bit video card? Are there any 32-bit video board around?

The same way 32 bit serial drivers work on an 8 bit device.

>If 300,000 of us will get the beta version 2.1 at $15 each IBM will earn
>4.5 M! Are we getting a rebate for the real thing?


IBM will earn 4.5 million???   You mean it costs them NOTHING to produce
a CD, documentation, packaging, and mail it to you??   If they're lucky,
it won't cost them TOO much to beta test it this widely!

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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
Subject: Re: Problems with SZ
Organization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:40:31 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.110122.42623@urz.unibas.ch> kullmann@urz.unibas.ch (Peter Kullmann) writes:
>
>I have problems using SZ.EXE (send Z modem) on our VAX. For very short files
>it works O.K. but I get a lot of CRC errors and quite often I get the msg
>'data subpacket too long'. That alone would not be too bad as long as the
>data is resent. But, after about 10 errors the sender (VAX) doesn't seem
>to listen to the receiver anymore. The receiver waits and prints 'timeout'
>before it aborts the transfer. Now, after having received the abort sequence,
>SZ exits and VMS redisplays the prompt, but the connection to my terminal is
>interrupted, that is, I can type whatever I want and the VAX doesn't get it.
>I then have to hang up my modem.
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated. And please excuse me if that doesn't belong
>to that newsgroup.

Can't help much without knowing exact version of sz and whatever is talking
to it, ZCOMM or Pro-YAM.
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From: vance@lpl.arizona.edu (Vance Haemmerle x4021)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Apending a file at the end of mail.
Date: 23 Dec 92 06:37:43 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Tucson AZ.

In article <22DEC199209022524@spades.aces.com> gavron@ACES.COM writes:
>
>I'm sorry, Carl, that we can't all be like you and use brain-dead
>editors like TPU that are built into VMS.
>
>That's why REAL EXPERTS like yourself do the procedure() mumble mumble
>in tpu, while the rest of us do it in two or three keystrokes in EDT.
>Of course I don't mean Digital's EDT, I mean callable EDT with a shell
>around it that supports spawning, etc.
>

  And to think... TPU becomes the default editor under VMS V6.0.
  Oh the horror! ;-)

  Anyway, here's someone's question I couldn't answer after spending
  lots of time with the DOC CD-ROM.  Is there a system service or
  Run-Time Library routine that returns the amount of blocks allocated
  to a file?  Something like stat() in C, but the allocated space, not
  the used space.  I hope the answer doesn't involve reading the
  directory file format manulally or seting up RMS control structures.

   Vance Haemmerle                              vance@vips.lpl.arizona.edu
   Support Systems Analyst, Senior              vance%toyvax@arizona.edu
   Lunar & Planetary Lab
   University of Arizona
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