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From: rwberry@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert W Berry)
Subject: The best CD-ROM-based encyclopedia is...
Keywords: CD-ROM NETWORK NETWARE MACINTOSH
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 00:40:45 GMT

I guess the subject says it all.  We have been granted the money to put
a CD-ROM-based encyclopdia on our LAN.  We already have CD-ROM drives
for both the Mac side and PC side of our Novell LAN.  We can share a Mac
CD-ROM via the System 7 file sharing option, and we have SCSI Express to
share the CD-ROM drives located in our NetWare file server.

So which to buy.  I've heard good things about Grolier's, but it won't
work with the PC side of the LAN (according to Micro Design Int., the
maker of SCSI Express.)  Other than that I'm at a loss.

Please Email me any information you can spare, and I'll summarize if
there is a demand.

advTHANKSance,
Bob

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: mcleodd@fraser.sfu.ca (Darcy McLeod)
Subject: security on a school lan
Summary: A request for info on a school lans security
Keywords: security, school, lan
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 05:07:52 GMT

Hi,
	This may be a silly question, but heck I'll post it 
anyway. I have a school LAN for grades 8-10, and I was wondering
if there were any utilitites out there that would 'record' all the
actions of the users. ie: make a log file that would say something like:

user jsmith : 04/09/92 : syscon
user jsmith : 04/09/92 : cd \home\'sysop' (so to speak)

This would be most helpfull as there are many problems associated
with running a school lan with teenagers, and maintaining tight
security, as well I would like to monitor for any software pirating 
that may be going on.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated :)

Steve W. (using a friend account to post)
swright@first.etc.bc.ca
From: lam@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Server loss of free space (followup)
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:27:01 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

greg@irl.ise.ufl.edu (Greg O'Rear) writes:

>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

Try flagging the directories where the most deleted files are as purgable.
Then the server will purge them immediately after deletion.

Ken
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From: cctb@hippo.ru.ac.za (Tim Bouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: JRBUTILS - sethome query
Date: 7 Apr 92 12:09:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: hippo.cctb.702648573
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Hi

The SETHOME.EXE utility included in JRBUtils (from some of David
Harris's utils) is supposedly able to be executed from a makeuser
script.

Could someone please explain to me how this is done.  I have looked at
the manual and tried a few variations without success.

We are running Netware 3.10 and Makeuser Ver 3.01.

Thanks

Tim

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From: jim@rwsys.lonestar.org (James T. Wyatt)
Subject: Re: NBACKUP and Bernoulli
Organization: R/W Systems, Richland Hills, Texas, USA, 76118-5849
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 05:24:43 GMT

In article <92105.10363134HLEFG@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> 34HLEFG@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU (Mark Strandskov) writes:
>Has anyone out there used NBACKUP to backup their server to a Bernoulli
>Removable HD system?  I would assume that this would work just like
>backing up to any other disk but I would like to know if people like
>it, dislike it or just find it adequate.  This is for a network where
>they would like to be able to use the device for something other than
>just a backup device and Bernoulli seems to solve the problem.

Problem 1: There are a limited number of files in the root directory, so
it will fill up with files before it runs out of space. It only takes a
drive letter, so normally subdirectories won't help.

Solution: Make a subdirectory (no length limit), but use the SUBST command
to make it look like another drive (like E:).

Problem 2: Media life while spinning is limited to a few hundred hours.
That time will be gone before you know it. The media isn't cheap, either.

Solution: Dollars. I think we pay $168/3pk for the 20Mb 5.25 carts. Make
sure you pitch them after a safe number of hours - like once a year or
two if used for backups. Every few months if used frequently - spin
them down when not accessing them for a while. Do *NOT* use them for a
windows swap file!

Since the dollars/hours ratio isn't good, we use it as a fast tape drive
with a very limited amount of space. Archives are perfect - fast access
time to stuff you need to search through and you don't have to restore
to a hard drive to read it. For real backups get a QIC or (if you have
*real* hard disks) a DAT drive. For workspace use hard drives, their
MTBF can't be beat by removable media. (except ROM packs? 8{)  YMMV - jim

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From: eengelke@sail.uwaterloo.ca (Erick Engelke)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP to replace IPX/SPX ?
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 07:25:39 GMT

bob@comlab.gatech.edu (Bob Baggerman) writes:
> keith writes:
>>
>>Nah. If LAN Man has demonstrated anything its how to make the best job of
>>embarrasing Microsoft and making their marketing staff look like complete
>>fools.
>
>I gather then that you agree that Lan Man's transport independence is a
>compelling technical approach and that Lan Man's biggest problem is simply
>Microsoft's inability to properly market it?

Bob, your non-partisan comments are no good here.  To keep in the
conversation you have to declare which is good and which is truly evil.


Direct IP routing makes it so easy to add a workstation here, there, wherever,
and basically allow you to run LAN protocols on a WAN, but that is not always
good.

One of the network packages I wrote to do real-time data acquisition could 
really bog down a LAN.  We were pumping out more than 700 kbytes/s.  The 
first question I got back was how come it didn't work to different
IP subnets, someone was trying to push that much data through a router!!!

Well network file i/o isn't much different.  Using a separate protocol
gives network managers a little more control to route network file
traffic over different lines and do better load management.  Forcing 
people to connect their Netware pc's to a Netware server and then 
allowing the server to talk other protocols is acceptable to me.

>But if you truly need to be able to pick and choose which
>protocols are best for your particular situation it sure is nice having
>the LAN product (like Lan Man) independent of the LAN protocol.

I dislike having to load multiple drivers just to talk to all the
servers.  If you can get to one, you should be able to get to them all,
that is more like an enterprise lan to me!

Erick

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From: neil@dehn.mth.pdx.edu (John Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: New version of PMAIL for Mac?
Summary: Any word on the new version?
Keywords: pegasus mail, macintosh, novell
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:27:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: dehn.neil.702678425

Has anyone heard when (and, of course, if) the new version of Pegasus Mail for
the Macintosh is forthcoming in the forseeable future?  The last I heard it
was coming out in late February.  Since that date has long since passed, I
was wondering if there was any late word yet.

Also, I heard a while back that there was a Pegasus mail e-mail group.  If
so, could someone please send me information on how to join.

Thanks,

--John Neil


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From: h236_031@ccvax.ucd.ie (Damien Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Modem on Novell Network
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:33:08 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

When talking about modem sharing options under NetWare, why not take a look at
the new version (V3.0) of NACS (NetWare Asynch. Comms. Server); it now runs as
an NLM on your 3.11 server, or under 3.11 runtime (supplied with >8 user version
of NACS V3.0) on a dedicated box.  It now supports higher baud rates, increased
security (accessable from SYSCON), remote diagnostics etc., and will support up
to 5 `standard' RS232 ports, or (for better performance) a number of advanced
communications adapters, such as the WNIM+ board, the Hayes advanced comms.
adapter etc.

At the workstation, you load(high) a resident stub called NASI, and use any
NASI compataible comms. package such as SmartTerm 340, Procomm Plus Network,
etc. etc.

I don't think that there is, at the moment, any support for Macs, but you'd
have to check..

Hope this helps...

                
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From: owenc@qut.edu.au (Chris Owen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Boot prom batch file lost in space
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:56:25 EST
Organization: Queensland University of Technology

In article <1992Mar30.195032.8812@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>, jmp@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Mike Pressley) writes:
> 
> I need information on using boot 
> proms on western digital ethernet cards in machines that only have 
> 640K of memory??? My problem is that when the machine is booting 
> off the fileserver, the boot image on the fileserver is drive A. 
> As soon as NET5 runs, the drive A that was on the fileserver is 
> released and it then becomes drive F. At that very second, the 
> batch file that I am using to login each station directly to a 
> menu is lost in outer space????

You need to have a copy of AUTOEXEC.BAT in SYS:LOGIN.  That way when
NETx does the switch, the PROM can keep going with the other copy.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: ccewch@solomon.technet.sg (Wong Chee Heng)
Subject: MHS question
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 03:18:22 GMT


I would like to find out more about MHS from Action Technology (which is
bundled to Netware). Is MHS a message format or a mail protocol? The current
implemetation of MHS are file based, i.e. it routes mail by copying mail
messages between different "non-routing host", is there any client server
type of implementation or MHS is inherently file based?

Can someone give me some pointer to where I can get this information.
Thank you. 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: bryan@npd.Novell.COM (Bryan Cardoza)
Subject: Novell FTP Sites (Unofficial Commentary)
Organization: Novell NPD -- Sandy, UT
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 22:41:05 GMT

Hello Again.

For those of you who have been wondering, ftp.IS.Sandy.Novell.COM
*should* be updated with current stuff by the end of this week (i.e.,
17APR92).  I understand that it hasn't been updated since shortly
before it went out of commission a couple of weeks ago.

Here is a summary of the three FTP servers that I know about at
Novell.  Note that I don't speak authoritatively on *any* of them, as I
don't maintain any of the archives, and I'm not an authorized Novell
spokesperson.

ftp.IS.Sandy.Novell.COM. (ftp.Novell.COM.) [137.65.12.2]

	Information and binaries posted by Novell to the CompuServe
	forum NETWIRE are also placed here; I understand that the
	structure is similar.  Not being a CompuServe subscriber, I
	don't know if the term "NOVLIB" is magic, but thats what they
	call it.  This is *not* a general copy of or gateway to the
	CompuServe NETWIRE forum.

sjf-lwp.Novell.COM. [130.57.11.140]

	This contains ODI/SHELL stuff and helpful things for LAN
	WorkPlace for DOS and NetWare NFS.

gateway.Novell.COM.

	Does not support anonymous FTP in the classical sense.  The FTP
	server there supports only registered users; in order to be a
	registered user, you have to be a source code licensee of
	NetWare for UNIX (a.k.a. Portable NetWare).  (So quit trying :-).)


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: johnk@exec.isa.com (john kosztolnik)
Subject: Job Accounting software
Organization: ISA Inc, Arlington VA
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 15:59:39 GMT

We are interested in accounting software that will track usage by job number
rather than by user name only.  Does such an animal exist?  Is there a free
one?  Any thoughts appreciated

Thanks 

John

Mail only please as I don't normally read this group!!
johnk@isawao1.isa.com
From: CHRISC@ramrod.lmt.mn.org (Chris Cox  W0/G4JEC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: NW for Mac 3.01 and strange behaviour...
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:24:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: ramrod.MAILQUEUE-99.920410132439.464
Reply-To: chrisc@ramrod.lmt.mn.org
Organization: LaserMaster Technologies

Hello people,

On three occasions now, one of our NW3.11 file servers has gone off into
never-never land whilst NetWare for Macintosh 3.01 was loaded.

This morning the server stopped responding to all Mac clients AFP requests,
although it continued to route EtherTalk packets, and to appear in the
client's chooser's.

I tried unloading afp from the console, but the unload never completed, and
I could not get back to the : prompt.  I was able to switch to the monitor
screen, however, and I started to clear the connections of the mac client's
which were still attached.  After clearing four or five connections, the
next one I cleared caused the server to stop, and it actually dropped into
the internal NetWare 3.x Debugger - it's never done that before!

This is what the debugger displayed:-

Break at 00000001 because f INT 3 breakpoint.
EAX= 0018CEF0   EBX= 00000000   ECX= 00EH2CE4   EDX= 0018CEF0
ESI= 00000000   EDI= 00E43CE4   EBP= 00000001   ESP= 00E06B9C
EIP= 00000001   Flags= 00000003

00000001    CC      INT 3
#

Does this mean anything to anyone, or has anyone else seen this form of
problem before?

The server is confgured as follows:-
AMI 80386/40 with 32MB of RAM
NE2000 ethernet
Procomp F-DCB SCSI interface
2 x Maxtor 650 MB drives, split into two volumes-
    100MB SYS:
    1.1GB VOL1:

Ideas anyone?

Chris Cox
LaserMaster Network Administrator



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Subject: 3c507 Driver for NetWare Lite
From: sheak@mcl.saic.com
Date: 15 Apr 92 10:17:20 EDT

	I am looking for a drive for NetWare Lite for the 3Com
	3c507 board.  Does anyone know if this exists and if so,
	where I can get ahold of it.  Please Email responses to
	sheak@mcl.saic.com

	Thanks.

Kevin M Shea
From: ejhupper@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Huppertz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Modem on Novell Network
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:31:46 GMT
Organization: Illinois State University

In article <53770@hydra.gatech.EDU> cm9@prism.gatech.EDU (MCKEITHAN,CLIFFORD M.) wants to know how:  
>to add a modem to the net so that each person could access it from
>their workstation.  What is the best way to do this?

Well, there's Fresh Technologies' Modem Assist, which as I understand lets
you set a modem server--not sure if it has to be dedicated.

Does anyone know of a way to make a modem server the BOTH Mac and PC's
can access?  I know, dream on... :-/

-E.


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From: jverdega@cae.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Verdegan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Vrepair under NW 3.11--how much time?
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:05:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: doug.1992Apr7.160544.10688
Distribution: na
Organization: Computer-Aided Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

In article <1992Apr7.163033.24314@sci34hub.sci.com> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>[...]
>what I can get, with 540MB SCSI drives. I remember some postings from
>when NW 3.0 came out about incredibly long VREPAIR times on large
>volumes (as in several hours to do 600MB). If anyone out there has any
>experience with the cleanup time for volumes in the 500-600MB range,
>I'd like to hear about it. I need as much ammunition as possible to 
>support this, and anything that would delay the line would be a powerful
>justification for the expenditure. Initially, they will be holding about
>320MB of software and data, which will increase in the future as other
>packages are added to the configurations.

Well, how long VREPAIR takes of course depends on things like how "bad" the 
crash was, how large your disk is, and whether the space in use is taken up by
a broad, flat directory structure consisting of a few large files, or a deep
copmlex directory structure made up of tons and tons of directories and little
files.  (Forgive me if this is obvious; I'm stating it as much for my own
benefit as for yours.)

We've got the latter case, (USER\USERS\<26 dirs:a-z>\<login-name>, for a total
of over 3200 user directories, each with its own subdirectories and files...),
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
it has happened.  The usual time is probably about 45 minutes to an hour.
Don't forget that after you repair the volume, you still have to mount it.
We're happy here now because with our new faster SCSI controllers, it only
takes about 15 minutes, where it used to take around 25.

Oh, for reference, this is on an HP Vectra, '486, 33 MHz.


Jeff


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University of Wisconsin-Madison
Computer-Aided Engineering Center
jjv@caestaff.engr.wisc.edu
(608) 263-1875
From: ccewch@solomon.technet.sg (Wong Chee Heng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: MHS question
Date: 16 Apr 92 03:21:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: nuscc.1992Apr16.032137.17010
Organization: National University of Singapore

Test
From: d8olsth@dtek.chalmers.se (Thomas Olsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Realtime question
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:56:11 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

jailbait@wombat.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Jailbait) writes:

>2 people respond to a question on Topology Choices. Both say that
>realistic throughput on an Ethernet network is noticably below 10Mb/s.
>One goes on to say that this is due to packet collision on the wire.

>Question: Does this apply for 10baseT/Ethernet over twisted pair
>networks, too? 

>It seems to me that the use of a hub in this topology should minimize
>that problem.

>Comments?

As far as I know the 10baseT/Ethernet is still a broadcast network where the
problem with many workstations sending at the same time in an unorderly fasion
remains. This should lead to a steep preformance degradation when there is
heavy traffic and many workstations.
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Subject: FAX Servers (again?)  
From: Brendan_Laing@kcbbs.gen.nz (Brendan Laing)
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:24:27 GMT
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand

> I'd like to provide FAX capabilities to our Novell Network.  We are running 
> Microsoft Mail, and could install their product, for a fairly high cost, and
> (to the best of my knowledge) without Wordperfect compatibility.  
>   
> Optus and Intel both have products which are interesting.  Optus won LAN  
> magazine raves, and was one of their products of the year.  
>   
> Does anyone have experience and or recommendations on these or other product
Nope, but you could look at the GammaFax/Gammalink range of products, at last 
count they were at:   
         GammaLink,  
         133 Caspian Court  
         Sunnyvale, CA 94089  
         408-744-1430, FAX 408-744-1549  
I'll guess they be able to put you in touch with a supplier a bit closer.   
We've been using one on our network for some time now (2-3 years) and it   
works very well and has a lot of options etc...    
  
See ya  

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