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Date: 19 AUG 92 08:14:46 GMT
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
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X-RFC822-From:     adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
From: adelman@TGV.COM
Subject:  Re: Installation Verification Procedure Suggestion                  
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

> A suggestion to assist new users.  Have a command file set up a directory
> for NFS sharing to illustrate the various aspects of security with uid,gid
> etc.	I am having difficulty getting NFS to recognize the file owner, it
> seems to only be giving world access, even with defined group and either
> specific uid,gid for that group or with passwd file from the unix system
> for that group.  Is there a way to see what uid,gid,group, etc are being
> assumed at various stages of access in client and server?

> Also, why does the owner field show up as [default] instead of showing
> the name of the owner when one does a dir/security?  Even with the client
> and server on the same machine I have the same problems.  How can one
> find where the problem lies?

    I'm not really sure where I'd start in writing such a command file;
there are so many site-dependent issues with configuring NFS that can't
always be figured out from information available on the machine being
configured.

    The owner showing up as [DEFAULT] means that you have no mapping
configured.  The most common misconfiguration problems are attempting
to assign mappings which aren't unique UID<->UIC mappings and
misconfiguration of NFS-GROUPs.  I recommend NOT using NFS-GROUPS
until you've got the basic mapping debugged, and doing a
REPLY/ENABLE=NETWORK/TEMP on both Client and Server and reload the UID
mappings on each looking for any errors being logged to OPCOM.	If
you're still having problems, please open a support call with more
information about your configuration either by email to
SERVICE@TGV.COM or a call to 800-TGV-3440.  Problems with UID mappings
are usually quickest resolved by phone.

								Ken
From: JOHNSON@northeastern.edu (I am only an egg.)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: TN3270 "feature"
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:03:10 GMT
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
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     Well hi again.

     I knew I went to TGV MULTINET for a reason; because it was good. 
It is in fact so good that I now have a small unexpected problem with
tn3270 connections. 

     Seems I now can get full screen mode which I didn't have access to 
with TWG.  Great.  Now my users have full screen editing etc with their 
connections to Big Blue.  The problem is with multi-page output.  We see 
a "holding" message at the end of a screen and don't know what to type 
to get the next screen.  I probably should ask an IBM person but I don't 
know any.

     Help!

embarrassed/perplexed/confused,
Chris Johnson
Northeastern University.

Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
From: jvolpe@ncsa.uiuc.edu (James Volpe)
Subject: RE: SMTP from other cluster members
Originator: jvolpe@mars.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Organization: Dow Chemical
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:55:09 GMT


In article <2380BEC913AUG92194040@TGV.COM>, GAVRON@VESTA.SUNQUEST.COM writes:
|> 
|> >> > : MAIL> mail
|> >> > : To:     vax01::smtp%"user@unix.machine"
|> >
|> >>     This is the only option.  The mail flag indicates whether or not
|> 
|> 
|> 	$ define/system/exec mail$Protocol_smtp "%vax01::""27="""
|> 
|> >I beg to differ, Ken, but there is a way to do it.  If you specify the
|> >to address as __vax01::smtp%"user@unix.machine" (note the TWO
|> >underscores), it will force the mail to be sent to vax01, even in an
|> >otherwise homogenous cluster.
|> 
|> 	So will the logical name above, making SMTP%"..." forward
|> 	to VAX01.

I defined this logical on our cluster, but it did not do the trick.  Mail
with the SMTP% prefix is forwarded to VAX01, but it looks like it does not 
get handled by SMTP once it arrives there.  Here is what happens when I 
reply or send from any node on the cluster (including the one running Multinet!):

MAIL> r
To:     SMTP%"user@unix.machine"
%MAIL-E-USERSPEC, invalid user specification '@UNIX.MACHINE'

What does this logical actually do?

Thanks,
Jim Volpe
Dow Chemical
jvolpe@ncsa.uiuc.edu
From: ROBERT@PERV.PE.UTEXAS.EDU (Robert R. Schneider)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: Multinet NFS Client to a DEC StorageServer-100
Date: 20 Aug 92 21:19:42 GMT
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
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X-RFC822-From: "Robert R. Schneider" <ROBERT@PERV.PE.UTEXAS.EDU>
X-VMS-To: IN%"info-multinet@tgv.com"

Hi;

Does anyone have any experience,  either good or bad,  with using a Multinet
NFS client to a DEC StorageServer-100??  If so,  I'd appreciate hearing about
it.  I'd also appreciate hearing either good or bad things about the
StorageServer or alternatives as well.

Thanks!

Robert Schneider
Department of Petroleum Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
email: robert@utpe.pe.utexas.edu
From: jhussain@cs.ucsd.edu (Jabir Hussain)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: exec() from user-written service (NOCLI)
Date: 14 Aug 92 23:23:27 GMT
Organization: CSE Dept., U.C. San Diego


hi,

	i am running into the NOCLI error when my server tries to
	run exec() in a child subprocess.  the server has been
	registered with the multinet master server and is started
	as a detached process by it when a client request comes.
	I guess exec() calls LIB$SPAWN or LIB$RUN_PROGRAM internally,
	which abort when the parent process has no CLI present.

	i don't see how i can use the standard workaround of
	running LOGINOUT.EXE and setting /INPUT=<myproc>.COM in
	this situation.

	if anybody has any ideas, i would appreciate the help.
	thanks.

jabir
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: Re: Repost: SLIP configuration problem 
From: leonard@telcom.arizona.edu (Aaron Leonard)
Date: 20 Aug 92 09:35:32 MST
Reply-To: Leonard@Arizona.EDU
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona Telecommunications

In article <1992Aug20.124504.40053@urz.unibas.ch>, doelz@urz.unibas.ch writes:
| 
| Has anyone sucessfully managed to run SLIP over LAT yet ? 
| 
|  [...]
| In article <1992Aug10.095438.37877@urz.unibas.ch>, doelz@urz.unibas.ch writes:
| > I would like to run the following setup: 
| > 
| > +--------------------+
| > |                    |           +-----------------+             +--------+
| > |    Multinet 3.0    |           |  DECServer 200  |=============| UNIX PC|
| > |                    |           +--------+--------+   19200 bd  +--------+
| > +---------+----------+                    !
| >           !              Ethernet         !
| > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| > 
| > In order to do this, I followed Aaron Leonard's cookbook and did a 
| > LATCP>  create service gate_sl0 /ID
| >         create port lta9960 /dedicated
| >         set port lta9960 /dedicated /service=gate_sl0
| > $ define/system slip0 lta9960:
| > $ set term/passall/perm slip0
| > 
| > and/after logged in to the vax via LAT, 
| > $ mu set/inter sl0/slip=slip0/up
| > 
| > The only sad thing is that this doesn't work. 
| > I set up the interface as static SLIP, with slip0 as terminal device. 
| > 
| > Any hints mostly appreciated. 
| > Regards 
| > Reinhard 

Well, SLIP over LAT in this fashion most definitely does work.  (Though
I don't think that TGV or anyone else will tell you that it's "supported".)
Have you made sure that the DECserver port is set up correctly
to give you an "8-bit-clean" path?  (I.e. no flow control, no local switch,
etc.)

One thing you might try as an intermediate troubleshooting technique
is to see whether your LAT path is working OK.  Create the service as 
described, but DON'T have SLIP grab hold of the LTA.  Have your PC
LAT CONNECT to the service and see if data can pass thru that path.
(E.g. via $ COPY LOGIN.COM SLIP0:.)

Good luck,

Aaron

Aaron Leonard (AL104), <Leonard@Arizona.EDU>
University of Arizona Network Operations, Tucson AZ 85721
|>   If it ain't broke, break it.
X-Gateway-Source-Info: INTERNET
Date: 19 AUG 92 20:18:29 GMT
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
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X-RFC822-From:     adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
From: adelman@TGV.COM
Subject:  Re: vaxcluster sharing of Multinet configurations
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

> >> What is the recommended procedure if one wants to make a vaxcluster
> >> have identical MU configs for NFS on all nodes (for example by pointing
> >> to the same definition file for nfs-group and uid,gid etc)?
> >
>>    The NFS.CONFIGURATION file is by default in the VAXcluster common
> >directory. If you want different configurations, but the file in
> >the specific directory.
> >
>>								 Ken
> Understand, but I have four separate bootnodes, i.e., four different
> sys$common:[multinet] areas in one homogeneous cluster.  Other key files
> like sysuaf, queus, proxies, etc reside on a cluster common quorum disk.
> Is there a logical that I could direct to such a disk, or simply append
> that disk to the multinet_root definition and move the nfs.configuration
> file to the common disk.  that way, if I want node specific I can put it
> in the specific area, if boot specific in the sys$common area, if cluster
> wide put it in the cluster$common area.  For fault tolerant computing one
> will have more than one boot node and come across this problem.

    The closest you could come to a "supported" way of doing this
would be to install MultiNet on a disk which is available through the
CI so it is always up. Otherwise I would recommend manually copying
the NFS configuration files to the alternative system disk; there is
no way of maintaining just the configuration files in a separate directory.

							    Ken
X-Gateway-Source-Info: INTERNET
Date: 13 AUG 92 17:39:58 GMT
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
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X-RFC822-From:     adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
From: adelman@TGV.COM
Subject:  Re: ACCVIO on FTP
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

> Just ran across a strange occurance in FTP....if you

> $ FTP  128.52.46.34		      ( <-- this is a node at MIT )

> you get a `connection opened' message, followed immediately with
> an access violation.

> Seems that this site has an enormous startup banner with an `access denied'
> at the end (I FTP'd from a Sun to see this).

    The banner isn't only long, it also doesn't conform to the FTP
specification. The lines are terminated with LF instead of CRLF, and the
connection is closed before the continuation lines end.

    The accvio is definitely considered a bug, but as it only occurs
with FTP servers which grossly violate the FTP specification it will
be fixed in MultiNet V3.2.

							Ken

Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
From: 098802@adpdp2.lanl.gov (098802)
Subject: How can I speed up this SLIP implementation?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, EMVAX
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:35:00 GMT


Does anyone out there have any experience with methods of speeding up SLIP ?

I have the following configuration:

Several hundred PCs are connected to a Micom data PBX switch which is connected
to a Xyplex Terminal Server. The PCs run FTP Software's PC/TCP product. We use
the SLIP portion of that product to talk to SLIP software on the terminal
server. The terminal server is connected to our Ethernet backbone, to which
the target VAX is also connected. This VAX is running Multinet, which is how I
can justify sending this posting to this group.

 ----------    data PBX         ----------   Ethernet     --------
|   PC     |-------------------|  Xyplex  |--------------|  VAX   |
 ----------    @ 9600 baud     | Terminal |               --------
                               |  Server  |
                                ----------

The users of this system complain that their response time is too slow.
That is, their response time from their VAX applications is 4 to 7 seconds
slower than from a regular vt220 terminal connected by the same switch to 
a LAT terminal server.

I can see from the packet statistics on the PC side that I am getting some 
retransmits and duplicate packets on the PC. These are about 10% of the total 
traffic. I assume that most retransmits are being caused by the not receiving 
the acknowledgment in the PC's alotted time, and that duplicates are caused by
the VAX not receiving the acknowledgement in a timely manner.

My questions are the following:

Is there any way to extend the time period which Multinet waits before it 
does a retransmit? 

What would be the effect of replacing the 9600 line with a 19.2 line. I know
you couldn't expect it to be twice as fast, but could you expect it to be
1.75 times as fast?
From: VANCE@TGV.COM (L. Stuart Vance)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: Re:  TN3270 "feature"
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:03:14 GMT
Organization: TGV, Incorporated
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X-RFC822-From: "L. Stuart Vance" <VANCE@TGV.COM>
X-Phone: 408/427-4366 (work); 408/427-4365 (fax)
X-Address: 603 Mission Street; Santa Cruz, CA  95060 (work)

>     I knew I went to TGV MULTINET for a reason; because it was good. 
>It is in fact so good that I now have a small unexpected problem with
>tn3270 connections. 
>
>     Seems I now can get full screen mode which I didn't have access to 
>with TWG.  Great.  Now my users have full screen editing etc with their 
>connections to Big Blue.  The problem is with multi-page output.  We see 
>a "holding" message at the end of a screen and don't know what to type 
>to get the next screen.  I probably should ask an IBM person but I don't 
>know any.

I believe that what the user needs is the PA1 key.  Which for a VT100 class
terminal (or VT200, 300, 400) would be ^P1 (Control-P followed by a 1) or
<ESC><PF1> (Escape followed by a PF1).  The key sequences are defined in
MULTINET:MAP3270.DAT.

Regards,
-----Stuart
X-Gateway-Source-Info: INTERNET
Date: 13 AUG 92 23:41:38 GMT
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
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X-RFC822-From: "Steve Thompson, Cheme System Mangler" <olin@cheme.tn.cornell.edu>
From: "Steve Thompson, Cheme System Mangler" <olin@cheme.tn.cornell.edu>
Subject: RE: ucx bind to NFS devices
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

PACK@UARS.ACD.UCAR.EDU (Daniel Packman (303) 497-1427) says:

>Has anyone tried to do a ucx bind to nfs devices?
>I have tried to do a ucx bind to such a device which seems to
>succeed (no error messages) but within posix I cd to this
>directory and find apparently no files.
>
>Under VMS5.5-1 and multinet 3.0H I do
>
>$ ucx bind nfs7: "/v"
>$ucx sho bind
>
>Logical filesystem                      Pathname
>ACDURS$DKA400:                          /cdrom
>_ACDURS$DKA300:[POSIX$CONT]             /cont
>ACDURS$DKA100:                          /dka100
>ACDURS$DKA200:                          /dka200
>_NFS7:                                  /v
>ACDURS$DKA300:                          /vms
>
>$ posix
>psx> mount
>_ACDURS$DKA300:[POSIX$CONT] on /cont
>ACDURS$DKA300: on /vms
>ACDURS$DKA100: on /dka100
>ACDURS$DKA400: on /cdrom
>ACDURS$DKA200: on /dka200
>_NFS7: on /v
>psx> cd /v
>psx> ls
>psx>

I don't have Multinet, but I'd be willing to bet that this is a POSIX
problem. We have POSIX 1.0 installed on a 4500 running UCX 1.3A, and
I have this problem with *all* UCX container file systems (it works fine
with VMS file systems). I have multiple container file systems that
are normally exported to a bunch of unix clients. From the unix clients,
everything works fine. From within POSIX, no files are shown unless
you have BYPASS privilege (which I'm not willing to hand out :-)), but
even then the UID and GID values displayed (which should be mapped from
the UCX proxy database) are completely wrong. I've called CSC on it,
but no word yet. This renders POSIX essentially useless for us.

Steve
From: KNAPKE%BUTLERU.bitnet@UICVM.UIC.EDU (David J. Knapke 317/283-9420)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: Re: Multinet NFS Client to a DEC StorageServer-100
Date: 20 Aug 92 23:20:21 GMT
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
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X-RFC822-From: "David J. Knapke 317/283-9420" <KNAPKE%BUTLERU.bitnet@UICVM.UIC.EDU>
X-Envelope-to: info-multinet@TGV.COM
X-VMS-To: IN%"ROBERT@PERV.PE.UTEXAS.EDU"
X-VMS-Cc: IN%"info-multinet@TGV.COM"

>Does anyone have any experience,  either good or bad,  with using a Multinet
>NFS client to a DEC StorageServer-100??  If so,  I'd appreciate hearing about
>it.  I'd also appreciate hearing either good or bad things about the
>StorageServer or alternatives as well.


I'd be interested in hearing about what a StorageServer is as well.

David J. Knapke                       Knapke@ButlerU.BITNET
Computer Center                          Assistant Director
Butler University                     Information Resources
Indianapolis, IN  46208                      (317) 283-9420
USA                                     Fax: (317) 283-9740


Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
From: jvolpe@ncsa.uiuc.edu (James Volpe)
Subject: SMTP from other cluster members
Originator: jvolpe@mars.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Organization: Dow Chemical
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:06:35 GMT



We have only one node here that runs Multinet.  Recently, this node 
was added to a cluster.  Now, since Multinet is only running on this 
one node, mail that is headed for SMTP, but sent from another node on 
the cluster does not make it to the node running Multinet.  Here is 
our scenario:

vax01 - running Multinet
vax02 - part of the same cluster as vax01

While logged into vax02, I need to send mail to a Unix machine; here
is what happens:

: vax02: mail
:
: MAIL> mail
: To:     vax01::smtp%"user@unix.machine"                         
: %MAIL-E-ERRACTRNS, error activating transport SMTP
: %LIB-E-ACTIMAGE, error activating image DSA101:[SYS2.SYSCOMMON.][SYSLIB]SMTP\
: _MAILSHR.EXE;
: -RMS-E-FNF, file not found


Because vax01 and vax02 are part of the same cluster, vax02 assumes that
it can deliver the mail locally.  Since vax02 has no license to run
Multinet, it bombs.  I could set the MAIL$SYSTEM_FLAGS logical to have
mail delivered over DECnet even if the sending and receiving nodes are
part of the same cluster.  Because this will increase traffic in our
already saturated DECnet, we do not view it as an option.

Any suggestions?

Jim Volpe
Dow Chemical
jvolpe@ncsa.uiuc.edu
From: lane@duphy4.physics.drexel.edu
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: ACCVIO on FTP
Date: 13 Aug 92 12:46:43 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: Drexel University Physics

Just ran across a strange occurance in FTP....if you

$ FTP  128.52.46.34                 ( <-- this is a node at MIT )

you get a `connection opened' message, followed immediately with
an access violation.

Seems that this site has an enormous startup banner with an `access denied'
at the end (I FTP'd from a Sun to see this).

We're running Multinet 3.1 Rev. B  with VMS 5.4

Bug or feature? You decide; it saved me from having to read a long banner :-)

--

 Drexel University       \V                     --Chuck Lane
----------------->--------*------------<--------lane@duphy4.hepnet
     (215) 895-1545      / \  Particle Physics  lane@duphy1.bitnet
FAX: (215) 895-5934        /~~~~~~~~~~~         lane@duphy4.physics.drexel.edu
From: h8eg083@stan.xx.swin.oz.au (Darren Gower)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.misc
Subject: WANTED: Emulator for remote logins
Summary: PD/Shareware terminal emulator for VT220 -> VAX wanted
Keywords: VAX 11/750(?), IBM remote
Date: 14 Aug 92 12:53:22 GMT
Organization: Computer Centre, Swinburne University of Tech., Melbourne, Australia.

The model number may be a little off, but I am after an IBM based
terminal emulator capable of supporting remote login to a VAX 11/750
(read: OLD) which will emulate all the wierd keys on a VT220 dumb terminal.

Can anyone point me in the right direction for such a package (PD/SHAREWARE),
with an ftp site and/or a program name?

Thanks,

regards,
Darren.
-- 
Darren Gower                         | "You can't reason a person out of a
                                     |  position they weren't reasoned into.."
Internet: h8eg083@stan.xx.swin.oz.au | - Peter DeVries
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From: connelly@iscsvax.uni.edu (Ken Connelly)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.misc,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DECnet and DELUA problems
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:45:53 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <1992Aug8.115445.6003@iscsvax.uni.edu>, I wrote:
> General background:  
> 
> I am assisting in setting up a network attachment (for a terminal server(s)
> and PCs) on a VAX 8650.  I am not particularly familiar with the 8650 and
> unibus architecture.  The system manager at the site is not very
> technically oriented, so is not much help with some of the details.  The
> system has two unibuses (UB0 and UB1 according to SYSGEN SHOW/ADAPTER). 
> The DELUA that we are trying to use is the only network device in the
> system.
> 
> First question:  
> 
> Does the first DELUA have to go in the first unibus?  If the answer is a
> resounding YES, then we may not have any other problems.

The answer is no.

> When NETCONFIG attempts to start DECnet, the following displays on the
> terminal:
> 
>   %RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 00000124
>   %NCP-I-NMLRSP, listener response - Operation failure
> 
>   %SYSTEM-F-MEDOFL, medium is offline
>                   , unit is active
>                   , line disconnected
>                   , fatal hardware error
>   %NCP-I-NMLRSP, listener response - Unrecognized component, Circuit
>   Circuit = UNA-0
> 
>   %RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 00000127

The problem turned out to be an improperly terminated Ethernet (ASTO :-}). 
Using a wrap plug and/or fixing the improper termination solved the
problems.  Thanks to:

  Max Scane             <epamjs@bxsunfsa.epa.ericsson.se>
  Leon Blom             <blb@mh.nl>
  Malcolm J. Rayfield   <MJR059@MIPL5.JPL.NASA.GOV>
  Terry Kennedy         <TERRY@spcvxa.spc.EDU>
  Gary (Rice?)          <riceg@mdcbbs.com>

for your insights and quick responses.
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