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From: ctoomey@ccvax.ucd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: NW 3.11 Mirroring Questions..
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:50:08 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

After seeing someone else mention mirroring/duplexing, I have a question with
regard to `mirroring' to 2 different drive channels under NetWare 3.11 [i.e.
`duplexing.']

We have a NetWare 3.11 server, with 2 x 535Mb IDE drives, duplexed using the
NCL America 525 host adapter, that provides 2 seperate IDE channels from one
16-bit card (so, you load the disk driver twice, with different Int and Port
settings.)

For those of you who may have missed the point: you CANNOT `mirror'
successfully using IDE drive (that is, 2 IDE drives in the Master & Slave
position on the one channel [say, that Compaq Deskpro server you have with 2 of
their Conner drives...])  If the master drive fails, then slave is `lost'
without it's master.  If the slave fails, the OS will set the master looking
for the slave.  In either case, your server dies - trust me, I've seen it:  the
server for the catering department of the national airline, no less [probably
saved some lives, that :-D]

Anyhow, I digress..  I installed said host adapter, and tested the server by
brute force [unplugging drives], and all worked fine.  The Tech. Support
department in the company that I worked for has a Systempro with the Compaq
Intelligent Drive Array (the old one, not the new one, pity..)  When a drive
fails, the IDA_MON.NLM broadcasts a message to selected users, groups about the
drive having failed.  What I'm wondering is:

1)	Does there exist a utility to send a broadcast message, on failure of
	a drive under NetWare 3.11's native mirroring/duplexing.  In the case
	in question, the server will be locked in a cabinet with database
	server, access server, repeater, UPS etc. etc., and people won't
	normally be viewing the console screen.

2)	Also, is there any way to see what % of the REMIRRoring process is
	complete, as you have to just sit there and guess.

3)	Finally, is there any way to speed up the REMIRRORing process, i.e.
	instead of it doing it all quietly in the `background' is there any
	way to get it to blast ahead, taking as much resources as it 
	requires, after I turf off all users.

Questions, questions, questions...

Cheers,

	- Colm Toomey -
	B.Sc.(Hons.)
	Graduate Student in Comp. Sci.
From: Wayne.Wilson@med.umich.edu (Wayne.Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Acces server : pain in the A**
Date: 9 Nov 92 14:42:57 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.novell
Organization: Univesity of Michigan Medical Center
NNTP-Posting-Host: wilson.itn.med.umich.edu

In article <1992Nov4.172401.24886@cs.few.eur.nl>, biloggen@cs.few.eur.nl
(R.P. Loggen) wrote:

> We are using the acces-server. We get bumped out after 5
> minutes after logging in remotly (by modem).

> Any advice?

  I dunno, we use same feature and it keeps our sessions going forever,
maybe the modem telecom lines are glitching and causing the modems to drop.

> Another question: can acces server work with DOS-5?

Get the latest upgrade to 1.23, that supports DOS5.  Upgrades are FTP'able
and CompuServe downloadable.

Wayne D. Wilson
Asst. Dir. 
Health Sciences Information & Networking
University of Michigan Medical Center
Wayne.Wilson@med.umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: koseglu@eagle.sangamon.edu (Bahri Koseglu)
Subject: NEED IPX INF. FOR WINDOWS 3.1
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Sangamon State University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:35:27 GMT


Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: mrunkel@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Marc A. Runkel)
Subject: Disappearing LOGIN Directory.
Keywords: LOGIN UPGRADE NOVELL PROBLEM BUG
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:32:04 GMT

I am having a very strange problem with my newly upgrade Novell network.

We just upgraded Netware from v2.2 to v3.11.  The system was running fine
for about a week.  There was very little usage however as we are doing 
development work.  As I was trying to create a login script, I made an
error and made the first statement MAP ROOT F:=IMAGE/SYS:PUBLIC/AREV.
I started getting "Warning: Unexpected error 3 (ffff)" whenever I logged in.
I realize now that Netware must of been losing the LOGIN directory when I 
did this. (Tell me if this is wrong)  Now however, if I logout, I can not
get back in, and when I start the machine up, IPX loads fine, as does NETX,
then when I type "F:" I get:

Current Drive no longer valid>

Any input on my part gets: Invalid Drive, and I end up on C:.

If I run LOGIN.EXE off my NOVELL disks, I can login normally, and now no longer
get the "WARNING" that I got earlier (I've removed the MAP ROOT... command)

I've copied the LOGIN directory back onto the server (it was gone), but I still
have the problem.

Can anyone suggest a solution?

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Marc A. Runkel                              mrunkel@titan.ucc.umass.edu
Network Support Asst.                       Of course, this is just my
Registrar's Office                          tiny, insignificant, humble
University of Massachussets, Amherst        opinion.  If you don't like it....
From: rfranken@mcs213e.cs.umr.edu (Richard Brett Frankenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Print Server NLM
Date: 7 Nov 92 16:06:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla

We are running PSERVER.NLM on the file server, and would like to be able to 
allow certain users to unload and reload the print server, without giving them
full console access (i.e. without telling them the RConsole password).
 
There are two ways of unloading the print server.  One is to type 
UNLOAD PSERVER on the console.  The other is to down the print server from
PCONSOLE.  These certain users could be given access to down the print server
from PConsole.
 
To reload the print server, the only way is to type LOAD PSERVER <servername> at
the console.  However, I have found that with NCL.NLM, I can use the ON command
and instruct the server to execute LOAD PSERVER <servername> everytime the
print server is unloaded (Usong the ON command and waiting for a temporary
bindery object deletion).  
 
This would appear to work - this 'certain user' would down the print server from
PCONSOLE, and the NCL would re-load it.  The problem is that when PSERVER.NLM
is unloaded (either via UNLOAD PSERVER on the console or via PConsole), it puts
up a Print Server xxxxxx is Down -- Press Any Key To Close Screen message, and
PSERVER.NLM cannot be fully reloaded until you press any key on that screen to
close it.  Unfortuately, NCL doesn't appear to have a way to send keys to
another screen.
 
Does anyone out there have any ideason how to make that "press any key" screen
disappear?
 
    Thanks for any help ...    - Brett    (rfranken@cs.umr.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: eseitz@athena.mit.edu (Elizabeth A Seitz)
Subject: Using standalone ROUTER to connect Ethernet & Appletalk
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:31:46 GMT

The scenario is this:

I have set up a PC with a 3com etherlink II 10baseT card and a Dayna
DL2000 card running the standalone router.

What I want to do is split my Appletalk network into 2 separate zones
that will be able to communicate with each other via ethernet. 

I currently have 2 Farallon Starcontrollers (appletalk hubs) that are
connected together.  One of the devices on the Starcontrollers is a
Shiva Fastpath.  The configuration that I was hoping to end up with is:


----------+-------------------+------- Ethernet
          !                   !
     Fastpath         PC running Router
          !                   !
          !                   !        Appletalk
          !                   !
     Starcontroller    Starcontroller
          !                   !
          !                   !
   Macs & atalk printers   Ditto


Is it possible to do this with a PC running ROUTER?
How do I name my 2 appletalk zones?

Any help is appreciated, please e-mail and I will post summary.

Thanks in advance
          
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: How do I protect my server?
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:16:51 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.105651.796@sjh.org> vaughan@sjh.org (Tom Vaughan) writes:

>  Being new to novell 3.11 I have to ask, what is the accepted 
>software/procedures for protecting the server from virus attack?

Whatever's acceptable to you.   :-)

>  I could run say norton antivirus on the workstations, but what do I do to
>protect the server itself?

There are two areas of vulnerability: boot sector infectors and file
infectors. To guard against these, there are a minimum number of steps
to follow:

  Generate a set of boot/work discs for use with the server(s). These
should be made on a thoroughly checked workstation, should contain any
tools you need to work on a server (FDISK, VREPAIR, your choice of 
editor, a sector editor, etc.), and must be write protected. Never boot
your server except from one of these discs or it's hard drive. Prior to
booting it, scan the DOS partition (presuming it's NetWare 3.x) for
viruses. Have a backup copy of everything in your DOS partition, as well. 
This should pretty well protect you from boot sector viruses (although
I can't see how a server with a BSV could infect files, the concern is
damage to the server from things like Michelangelo).

  Second, scan your server(s) regularly with an up-to-date scanner. I 
run F-PROT on my (seven) servers *every* morning. It takes a grand total
of about one hour, and can be done from any 'ol clunky workstation; I'll
generally start it, then use my main workstation to check other stuff
(like news :-) ). I wouldn't recommend NAV or some of the other products,
simply because by the time they get to you, they're out of date. A new
release of F-PROT or McAfees' SCAN is distributed worldwide within hours
of becoming available. Scan *all* software before installing it; don't
trust any of it, especially shrink-wrapped products. People have a false
sense of security about those...

  Of course, the usual stuff about user education, contact points for
when an infection is detected, plans for dealing with it, etc., all apply.


-- 
Gary Heston    SCI Systems, Inc.  gary@sci34hub.sci.com   site admin
The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
"...I looked out my window, and saw Kyle Pettys' car upside down, then I
thought 'One of us is in real trouble'." Davey Allison, re: a 150MPH crash
From: bob_groendyke@macgate.csuchico.edu (Bob Groendyke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Mac 4 NW 2.2 - can it share a NIC?
Date: 13 Nov 92 01:07:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: charnel.1duv3sINN4tm
Distribution: world
Organization: CSU Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: bob-mac.csuchico.edu
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X-XXDate: Thu, 12 Nov 92 17:06:20 GMT

I'm used to NW for Mac 3.011, where you can bind multiple protocols onto
a single NIC. Is there an analgous situation with NW2.2 running NW for
Mac 2.x? I can't find anything in the manuals, but I'd like to confirm. 
Thanks,

Bob Groendyke
California State University Chico
bob_groendyke@macgate.csuchico.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: klosp@rimail.interlan.com (Patrick Klos)
Subject: ODI for PPP
Keywords: ODI PPP IPX NOVELL
Organization: Klos Technologies, Inc. (603) 424-0138
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:38:01 GMT

Does anyone know of an ODI driver for PPP that runs on a PC???
========================================================================
        Patrick Klos                 Internet: klosp@rimail.interlan.com
        Klos Technologies, Inc.      Compuserve: 71521,145
        (603) 424-0138
========================All opinions are my own!========================
From: kang@mel.dbce.csiro.au (Kang Ho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: How to FAX?
Keywords: FAX, NOVELL
Date: 12 Nov 92 06:30:53 GMT
Organization: CSIRO, Div. Building Constr. and Eng'ing, Melb., Australia

In article <1992Nov9.143643.5199@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> dje@sword.bellcore.com (Don Eilenberger) writes:

>Has anyone setup their novell network to allow users to FAX to
>a centrally located FAX card? If so, using what software?

You could try Microsoft Mail 3.0 and Microsoft Fax Gateway. Needs a dedicated
PC and also, only three fax cards are supported presently; from memory I
think they are coProcessor, SatisFAXion and GammaFax.


-- 
| Kang Ho   CSIRO Division of Building, Construction and Engineering          |
|           P.O.Box 310  North Ryde 2113  Australia       Tel: +61 2 934 3444 |
|           e-mail: kang@mel.dbce.csiro.au                Fax: +61 2 934 3555 |
|  "That which does not kill us must make us stronger" - Conan The Barbarian  |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: mpiet@is.morgan.com (Mark Pietrasanta)
Subject: Re: performance loss on IP tunnel
Organization: Morgan Stanley - IS
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:12:34 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.041350.6719@pixel.kodak.com>, abbott@pixel.kodak.com (Terry Abbott) writes:
|> What types of performace have been seen over IP tunnels. Has there been much
|> or any slowdown in performance. Have there been any benefits of doing this 
|> other than allowing IPX over a solely IP network?
|> 
|> Terry Abbott
|> Eastman Kodak


In my personal testing of IP Tunnel, I saw about a 40% performance hit overall.
The number was less on a local segment, and more when routed.  

When IP Tunnel is used, you don't get the benefits of the sliding windows of IP,
so you are still using the ping-pong IPX protocol, just now you have the additional
overhead of enveloping the IPX in IP, and undoing it at the other end.

I never tested this with Novell's Packet Burst to see if the speed improvements
with Packet Burst carry with IP Tunnel.  Probably someone out there can comment.

In terms of allowing IPX over the WAN, it's really your call.  If you are using
Novell servers as routers (or just Novell routers) they probably won't have a
problem with the IPX, but there has been chat in other forums as to some possible
IPX routing problems, which would be a potential downside.  There has also been
some chat as to IPX and IP competing, since IP tends to take bandwidth if it can,
and IPX (without Packet Burst) doesn't do anything special.

You should do controlled testing in your environment to see how IPX over the WAN
behaves, as every environment is different.

Hope this helps...
Mark Pietrasanta
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 10:13:02 MST
From: sson@bones.caedm.byu.edu (Stacey Son)
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: LPR_GWY.NLM is still very buggy (Was: LPR_GWY is *very* buggy)
Reply-To: sson@byu.edu


For those of you that may have thought your problems were solved with
the "special" compile patch of LPR_GWY.NLM (920731) BEWARE.  We
installed this patch a few days ago but I server crashed with the same
problem last night.  That is, the following:
	
  System halted ....
  Abend: General Protection Processor Exception (Error Code 01D20000)
  OS version: Novell Netware v3.11 (250 user) 2/20/91
  Running Process: lpr_gwy  			0 process
  Stack: 58 ....

Out of the three bugs with LPR_GWY.NLM that we found and reported to
Novell we thought they had fixed one of them.  Not the case, the score
is still 0/3 and we still have very unhappy users. :^(

--
Stacey D. Son                           459 Clyde Building      
Operations Manager                      Provo, UT 84602
Brigham Young University                Voice:(801)378-5950 FAX:(801)378-6586
College of Engineering & Technology     Email: sson@byu.edu               
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: dtroilo@muug.mb.ca (Dominic Troilo)
Subject: OS2 Rprinter Problems
Summary: Garbage printed with text
Keywords: OS2 RPRINTER
Organization: Manitoba Unix User Group, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:43:54 GMT

 I Seem to be having intermitant problems running Rprinter for OS2.  We have
Novell 3.11, and are using Pserver 1.26.  None of our MDOS remote printers 
have problems, just the one OS2 Rprinter?  When the text is printed, 
garbage is also printed out with the text.  Has anyone else had this 
problem?

Domenic
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: westes@sti.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Re: Functions Performed By Netware.drv Under Windows?
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 05:15:32 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.012057.29855@amd.com> ching@angelo.amd.com (Mike Ching) writes:
>I'm using Netware Lite which isn't on the Windows menu and get differing
>recommendations from Microsoft (who says use 100% Microsoft compatible
>network) and Novell (who says use no network installed). I can't see
>any difference in network drives but print manager always says there's
>a network error when 100% Microsoft compatible is selected. However,
>printing seems to work OK anyway. With no network installed, there is
>no print spooling, ie., if the server is printing, a printer not available
>message is received. Print spooling is the only capability I've discovered.

But if spooling is set via the DOS Capture command, it should be
transparent to both Windows and any DOS applications that print to the
LPT port.  From Window's perspective, it's printing to a local printer
port, and only the internals of capture know that it needs to be routed
to a spool.  How do you link your LPT port to the print spool under
Netware Lite?

-- 
Will Estes		Internet: westes@netcom.com
From: peggy@stalker.ki.open.de (Joerg Peckruhn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Netware 3.11 server freezes during file copies
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 92 15:06:20 GMT
Distribution: world               
Organization: private UUCP Site, Kiel, W. Germany

hi everyone,

dazz@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr D.K. Woodman) writes:
>
> I am having a problem with a just installed NetWare 3.11 LAN system.
> [...]
> The problem I have is that when I copy data from a workstation onto
> either physical drive (SYS: or SYS2:) at some point the server locks
> up completely, sometimes with the disk drive light hard on, sometimes
> not.
> [...]
> When I reboot the server I have to run vrepair before I can mount
> the volumes and in both cases (SYS: and SYS2:) the disk errors are
> similar:
>         FAT error at entry 15142
>         Expected unused block to be marked as free or bad
>[...]
> Sometimes though I get directory errors. I have run the destructive surface
> test over the SYS2: volume but found no errors.

We had similar problems on 386/486 ISA-machines with 
intel/amd chips and ami-bios. After we had changed the 
motherboards, all problems were gone.
It seems, that there are some layouts of motherboards, which 
case problems with adaptek in novell 3.11 networks.

so long peggy


Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: cearley_k@wizard.colorado.edu
Subject: lpr flags from FLEX/IP
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: 11 Nov 92 17:12:09 MST

Our problem seems to the flip-side of the FLEX-IP problem described
previously. We are trying to send large binary print files from 
Netware -> Unix LPD queue.

lpr (the client side of lpd) can usually pass flags to the lpd server like 
-v or -l, telling it "this print stream contains binary data". When LPD gets 
this flag, it blocks the incoming print stream in 512k chunks. Without this
flag, it tries to block for the record length, which it determines by 
a line ending with <LF>. Without the <LF> in the binary data, it hits 
hardcoded limits in the buffers defined by LPD, or system quotas for
the process, etc. causing the print job to blow.

So... my question: 

HOW DO YOU PASS THE -v FLAG THROUGH THE LPR_GWY????

 
	-Thanks for any info

	-Kent Cearley
	-University of Colorado, Boulder

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: jaynes@med.umich.edu (William Jaynes)
Subject: lockd behavior
Originator: jaynes@hendrix.itn.med.umich.edu
Organization: University of Michigan - Medical Center
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:46:14 GMT


Something curious came up while we were testing Lotus 123 on a Sun using
an NFS mounted filesystem from a Novell 3.11 server.  When we attempted to
write out a speadsheet to a file on the mounted system the file would be
created but nothing was written to it, and the NFS log file on the server
showed these error messages:

LOCKD-Error: Internal Error: RPC system error.
LOCKD-Error: Internal Error: RPC unknown host.

Turns out that we needed to change the host file on the Novell server.
We had entries like "141.214.x.x  detonator" and we needed to add an
entry like "141.214.x.x  detonator.fully.qualified.name".  Evidently,
Lotus or the lockd stuff or both need the fully qualified names.  This
seems strange, since we never needed full DNS names in the host file before.

Perhaps lockd needs it and this is the first time I've run something that
actually uses lockd.  I dunno. 
-- 
William Jaynes, ITN, University of Michigan Medical Center, B1911 CFOB,
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0704; (313) 747-2778 - William.Jaynes@med.umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: luit@gmd.de (Dieter van Luit)
Subject: ODI & remote boot
Keywords: ODI, remote boot
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 08:18:57 GMT

Can anyone send me a working net.cfg-file which realizes remote boot
starting of a workstation (using ODI).

My problem is that our workstations boot correctly without using ODI; when
using ODI, workstations find the correct remote boot file, load some files
(LSL, RPLODI, NE2000), but after loading the ODI card driver (in our case 
NE2000), the workstations can't find the remote boot file anymore.

Any help appreciated.

--
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.novell:9201 comp.periphs.scsi:5364
From: alanlb@bethesda.cs.vt.edu (Alan L. Batongbacal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Exabyte 5GB 8mm with Netware 3.11 ?
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:14:31 GMT
Reply-To: alanlb@csgrad.cs.vt.edu
Followup-To: comp.sys.novell

Hi there!  I'm trying to hook up an Exabyte EXB-8500 5GB 8mm drive
to a server running Netware v3.11.  The server has a Magitronic
80386-40 motherboard with AMI BIOS and 8MB of RAM and contains
an Micropolis model 1598 1.2GB SCSI HD hooked up to an Adaptec 1542B.

I haven't had any success getting the thing to recognize the tape drive
and would appreciate any pointers.

This is what my autoexec.ncf looks like:

file server name TEST
ipx internal net FEE
mount sys
load TSA
load SBACKUP


And my startup.ncf is

load c:aspitran.dsk
load c:aha1540.dsk port=330 int=B dma=5


Thanks!

-alan l. batongbacal
-stumped in virginia
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