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From: ron@wpogate.missouri.edu (RON NEELY)
Subject: Re: Lan Shadow
Organization: Surgery Dept, University of Missouri
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:13:33 GMT

In article <1993Jan19.140549.29818@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Kee Yip" <kyip@cs.indiana.edu> writes:
>From: "Kee Yip" <kyip@cs.indiana.edu>
>Subject: Lan Shadow
>Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 14:05:38 -0500
>Can anyone tell me the company which produce LAN Shadow?
>
>
>Thanks

Netwave, Inc.
145 6th. Ave. 
Suite 207
New York NY 10013
(212) 242-3200



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From: hoe@bwl.bwl.th-darmstadt.de (Reiner Hoenig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: server crash
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:41:52 GMT
Organization: Betriebswirtschaftslehre, TH Darmstadt
NNTP-Posting-Host: bwlpc95.bwl.th-darmstadt.de
Summary: PS/2-80 Netware Server is chrashing 2 times a week

Fellow netters,
since i installed Netware v3.11 on a PS/2 Modell 80, my server
has been crashing about 1 or 2 times a week.
With Netware v2.15 we have had no crashes.
The server is an old Model 80-311 with ESDI disks.
There are 4 MB RAM on the motherboard and additional 4 MB on
an adapter card. No additional driver is installed for the memory.
The LAN-Adapter is from S&K.
The crash comes with following message:
  Abend: General Protection Processor Exception (Error Code C98D0000)
         OS Version: Novell NetWare v.3.11 (20 user) 2/20/91
         Running Process: Interrupt Service Routine (nested count 2)
         Interrupted Process: Polling Process

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: "Brian Farnsley \"Hunter\"" <bfarnsle@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Novell 4.0 and Security
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Organization: Indiana University
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:15:54 GMT
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I am a new network administrator, and security is very important to me.
The previous message about Novell's past attempt at improving security
brought me up to speed on the old material, and what was done to fix the
problems.  However, it seems that with all the new features that Novell
has w/ 4.0 that it is possible that we are giving "hackers, etc" more
avenues to breach systems (e.g. Logging into multiple servers with only
1 actual login). I know that Novell has taken this into consideration, but
what have they done about it...

Thanks


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From: tp923021@jarrah.canberra.edu.au (ben elliston)
Sender: gateway@f262.n620.z3.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Can Novell support 75+ workstations?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:28:01

 > Considering that the specified limit for a thin
 > segement is 185 meters,
 > I doubt that any of us want to. We've got a total of
 > about 4,000 feet of
 > thin coax bridged via NetWare servers and dedicated
 > bridges (PCBridge),
 > and I've strained mightily to keep each segement under
 > the limit. Oddly
 > enough, my network is quite reliable. How's yours?

Alright .. it's quite fast (90% of top speed), but you guessed it, we get drop outs (lost workstation connections) about once a week. :-)

 > (Oh, BTW; I've heard of a thin LAN that had over 1.2KM
 > of cable, but for
 > *some* reason, performance wasn't real good....)

Yeah, funny that!

Cheers, Ben
From: sparker@oscar.UUCP (Sean Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Netware nlm which gets time from bsd time server
Keywords: nlm
Date: 20 Jan 93 04:48:19 GMT
Distribution: usa


Is anyone out there aware of a nlm which allows a Netware client to set/sync
its clock from a BSD Time Server?

Please respond via e-mail since I do not get the opportunity to read this
newsgroup frequently.

Thanks!
Sean

sparker@hns.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: donp@novell.com (don provan)
Subject: Re: IPX Frame Type Change
Keywords: IPX
Organization: Novell, Inc., San Jose, California
Distribution: us
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:26:26 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.182332.23130@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> rdb1@herahera.cc.bellcore.com (bond,robert d) writes:
>We are about to convert the ethernet frame type that is
>being used for the IPX protocol from the Novell default
>of 802.3 to Ethernet-II....
>
>2. "Frame Ethernet_II" must also be added to the Link Driver section
>    of the workstation's ethernet card.

Also, if there's already a "Frame Ethernet_802.3" line in the Link
Driver section, it should be removed.

>After making a similar change on the file server, the workstation can be
>rebooted and very thing should work fine, right?

NetWare v3.x servers can support both frame types at the same time on the
same network through a single NIC.  If you have a NetWare v3.11 server,
you should make it support ethernet_ii on the network before you change
any of the DOS machines.  You do this by loading the NIC's driver a second
time with the same hardware parameters but with "frame=ethernet_ii" and
specifying a different name.  Then bind IPX to the new framing by using
the new name.  A *different* IPX network number must be used for each of
the two frame types.  You can do this without taking the file server down.

Once you have a NetWare v3.11 server routing between the two frame types,
then you can switch all the other nodes over one by one at your leisure.
The NetWare v3.11 router will let all the machines using one frame type
communicate with all the machines using the other frame type.  This will
be a little less efficient than if everyone's running the same frame type,
though, so you'd rather not operate this way indefinitely.

>Are there any other details that need attending to?

Make sure not to overlook any machines in your plans.  Standalone print
servers, for example, can be sometimes be forgotten.

Also, if you boot any of your machines over the network, you need to
worry about the boot proms.  They often use ethernet_802.3 framing.

						don provan
						donp@novell.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: tomf@pitvax.claremont.edu
Subject: Desperate for IBM's EdLAN HelpL
Organization: Pitzer College
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:09:54 PDT


I'm desperate!

      	Is there anybody out there who has any experience with IBM's EdLAN
software running under Novell 286 ver. 2.15?  IF so, I can use your help.

	I am having serious trouble with a product packaged with EdLAN, called
LANSpool.  Over the weekend I tried just about every possibility I could
think of to get the configuration information for the printservers to stick.
Nothing seems to work.  As soon as we turn the machines off, the configurations
 are lost.  We haven't got a manual, so that is a big part of the problem.
Any and all help would be appreciated.

	Note: I know upgrading would be a good idea, but we just don't have
the money.  We are a non-profit, low budget operation.

						Thanks,

							Tom Feliz

  	
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: ross@eagle.sangamon.edu (David Ross)
Subject: Re: server crashing
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Sangamon State University
Distribution: world,local
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:00:20 GMT

I'm not sure if this relates to your problem or not, but it may be a piece
to the puzzle.  We, too, had problems with a PS/2 Model 80 as a server.  In
our case (and with several other installations here in Springfield), the
problem was with disk mirroring or duplexing--although the server did not
crash, if you took it down, it would not come back up due to the disks being
out of sync.

The solution in our case was to use IBM's _caching_ disk controller cards. 
The non-caching cards that came standard with the Model 80 DO NOT WORK
PROPERLY with Novell.  Neither IBM nor Novell was able to come up with a
definitive reason why this is the case, but we've been running with the
caching cards now for about 2 years with *no* downtime.

Good luck.

--
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Information Systems                      Voice:    (217) 524-5639
Board of Higher Education                Bitnet:   rross@ecnuxa
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From: sh240014@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: RE: Desperate for edLAN help
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:36:57 EST
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing

I have some experience with Novell 2.15 Advanced and IBM edLAN.  Maybe this
will help.

I just changed around some labs, and had the same problem.

If you are the SYSOP, or whatever the highest user is, see if the
file LANSPOOL.INI in the f:\login\lanspool is set to read only as
the attribute.  You can see this by running dos attrib on it.  If
a R shows up beside the name, then it is READ-ONLY.  Run ATTRIB on
it with a -r set.  Also check to see how the file is flagged, ie.
non-sharable read-only, etc. and change it to sharable read-write.


Brian Hammond
Shepherd College
username: SH240014@vaxa.wnet.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: smarc@mas.uucp (Marc Siegel)
Subject: Novell-> unix printers
Organization: Emtronix Inc.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:14:06 GMT

What (commercial) options exist to solve the following problem:

Novell 3.11 network users need to print to 7 printers on an SCO
unix machine. Network will be 10BaseT. Apparently Charon will handle
this, however, I would prefer a commercially supported solution.

The SCO box will be provided with TCP/IP. Hardware & or software
solutions would be fine. All info will be appreciated!

                             | Marc Siegel N3MCR            |
                             | Emtronix Inc.                |
                             | Baltimore, Maryland          |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: gary@colossus.cgd.ucar.edu (Gary Strand)
Subject: RPRINTER with Windows 3.1?
Organization: Climate and Global Dynamics Division/NCAR, Boulder, CO
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:07:58 GMT


I've gotten conflicting info...On 3.11, is anyone successfully using
RPRINTER on a workstation running Windows 3.1?  I read that Windows
interferes with remote printing, and that any station running Windows
can use only a local printer or one connected directly to the fileserver.

Jaye Hendrix, using Gary Strand's account, E-Mail to his address.

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strandwg@ncar.ucar.edu            not representative of NCAR, UCAR, or the NSF
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: levin@world.std.com (Levin F Magruder)
Subject: Capturing to best queue w/system login
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:05:40 GMT

I'd like to set up our workstations so that default capturing
is to the most nearby printer, irrespective of login name.  (In
other words, no matter where Joe logs in, his printing will
be captured to the queue associated with the physically nearest
printer, unless subsequently overridden.)

(Talking about 2.15 w/Dos 3.30; soon to be 3.11/5.00)

1.  Is there a way with DOS variables and Novell Login Scripts?
I tried #Capture q=%LANPNAME% in a user login script; just got
"Queue %LANPNAME% does not exist..." (w/dos var LANPNAME set to
a queue name).

2.  Would the following work; do you forsee any problems; can
it work in a system login script?
  Set dos var to nearby printer name in autoexec.
  write a utility to get the variable name and
        spawn a capture command set to the right queue
  #call that utility from the login script
  DOS SET that variable to make it go away.
Has anyone got such a utility written?

Does doing a DOS SET VARNAME= to blank out the name leave any kind
of "hole" if subsequent variable names have been assigned?

Any alternative suggestions, tangential tips, etc. welcome.  Here
or mail, your discrection.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: jan@wedel.hanse.de (Jan Hinnerk Haul)
Subject: PC hangs when LOGIN called from batvh with CALLs in it (DOS5)
Organization: None - the genius overlooks the chaos
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 09:57:07 GMT

I have a very strange problem:

Wanting to lower my workload (as ever ;-) I want to have a
single, standardized AUTOEXEC.BAT.
Since the (about 50) PCs I administer are not totally the
same, I tried to write it according to the following sketch:

ECHO this and that
CALL Hook1.BAT
IPX
NETX
CALL Hook2.BAT
LOGIN
CALL Hook3.BAT
GOTO END
... some error message code, triggered by ERRORLEVEL
ore files not available...
:END

However, when returning from LOGIN.EXE, the PC does not continue
to work on my AUTOEXEC.BAT but simply hangs.

It does not matter if I put the error-handling stuff first and
jump over it, so the last few lines would look like

LOGIN
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO BAD_LOGIN
Hook3.BAT
rem ... no CALL needed now

The Netware is V 2.15 on a 386/20 machine (8 MB, ca. 1 GB ESDI and
SCSI disks)
The DOS is 3.3 and 5.0 from Microsoft (not OEMed version for
testing)
The IPX and NETX are fairly new versions, made with the IPX.OBJ
from Windows 3.1 and NETX 3.26
The LOGIN.EXE, however, is whatever version came with Netware 2.15
Rev. D.
System login script stripped down to one WRITE statement to no avail.

Is this a known bug?
Cannot it work for a certain reason?
Am I only stupid?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I quite need this CALL feature... the other opporunities are quite
nasty:
- doing an on-the-fly edit to merge standard AUTOEXEC with local
  extensions
- forget about standardizing (meaning having to run around the
  building to fix things maually instead of telling person "OK,
  I changed your local extension. Please reboot and log into LAN
  TWICE, then it will take effect autimagically" (the first run
  copies the changed version from LAN to local drive, the second
  executes it))
- Test for any and all things in a single file, making the latter
  quite complicated

aTdHvAaNnKcSe

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: chris@marvin.ag.uidaho.edu (Chris Magagna)
Subject: Windows For Workgroups + NetWare = ?
Keywords: W4W NetWare Lantastic
Organization: College of Agriculture, University of Idaho
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:47:20 GMT
Summary: Will W4W work with NetWare 3.11?

I have a faculty with a CD-ROM drive in his machine about to connect to our 
3.11 network.  He wants to make this drive available to a few of his 
research associates.  

Our original plan was to install Windows for Workgroups on the three 
machines, but our local software dealer informs me that W4W and NetWare 
cannot coexist (presumably because of the falling out between Novell and 
Microsoft), and he recommends Lantastic.

Lantastic will be a more expensive solution (Microsoft gives great 
educational discounts), plus it's an unknown quantity because we've never 
used it here before.

So, faithful net, will W4W work with NetWare, or should I go with Lantastic, 
or is there something behind door #3?  Thanks for any help.

Chris
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Chris Magagna                               chris@ag.uidaho.edu
Ag Computing Services, University of Idaho
From: mm@rhino.oz (Manuel Mall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Getting Novell bindery info from VB
Date: 22 Jan 93 04:22:35 GMT
Organization: QPSX Communications LTD, Perth, Western Australia.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I have what may sound like a trivial problem:

To get the Novell LOGIN name and user long name of the currently
logged in user into a VisualBasic program (obviously under
MS-Windows). So far, we set the user id and the user long name
in DOS environment variables as part of the system login script.
This is not a very satisfactory solutions.

I recently downloaded winup7.zip from ftp.novell.com and found
various DLLs in there which looked like having a useful content,
i.e. NWNETAPI.DLL and NWIPXSPX.DLL. Now using Microsofts EXEHDR
program I can easily find out the names of functions defined in
these DLLs, but I have no idea what they do and what the parameter
conventions are.

Can anyone out there help, or even better does someone have a
VisualBasic file with the declarations for these DLLs or at least
the relevant ones for my problem.

Thanks

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From: imhw400@indyvax.iupui.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Can Novell support 75+ workstations?
Date: 22 Jan 93 10:44:42 -0500

In article <9301212346.AA06174@public.btr.com.BTR.COM>, a9@public.btr.com (Ashar Nisar) writes:
> 
> 
> Question: What is the MAXIMUM number of workstations that a  486 MSDOS server
> can handle and still give reasonable performance with Novell network?
> 
> We want to setup a lab with 486 50Mhz (or better) file servers and
> 286 DOS workstations for students doing (mostly) editing and compiling.
> The number of workstations will be anywhere from 75 - 100.

Gad, you should be able to run 200+ modest workstations from one of those
servers, if your NICs can handle the traffic.  We run nearly 100 workstations
(PS/2-30 286s, some diskless) off a single PS/2-80, a 386DX system of
unremarkable speed.  (I.e. I don't know the clock rate, but it isn't the
highest available.)

We're looking at doing a much more aggressive installation (75-100 486
workstations mostly running MS Windows 3.1, 25-30 Macs, one hefty 486 server),
so if you know something about this realm that I don't (as is likely), please
tell me so.
--
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Internet: IMHW400@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU      BITNET:  IMHW400@INDYVAX
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From: wa95003@oxford.ac.uk (Martin J Bligh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Windows & Novell 3.11 (getting it working)
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:03:07 GMT
Organization: Oxford University, UK
Originator: wa95003@black

I am trying to get windows running under Novell 3.11

I seem to be running into a few problems, which I am sure must be
fairly standard. I have set up windows so that each user has their own
copies of the ini files, etc. The main windows directory is
root-mapped to W: and is always in the path. H: is root mapped to the
users home directory, and their configs are saved into H:\WINDOWS

(1) Different machines on the net have different video cards, etc. I
thus need to autodetect the chipset (which I will probably write a
small program in C to do), and then autoconfigure the .ini files
apropriately. Any user should be able to use any workstation, and I
don't want to end up having about 3 sets of windows files for each
user, one for each chipset.

(2) When I install a new application, I need to update all the users
files for win.ini etc. This is incredibly tedious, and there must be
an easier way to do it.

The only solution that I can think of is to automatically build
win.ini, etc. when the user goes into windows. This would involve
assembling from 3 bits:

a) The main system part - this would be changed when a new application
was installed.
b) The hardware part - this would piece in the appropriate sections
for the video card on the machine being used.
c) The user's part - this would enable the user to configure their own
changes, not just to things like the backdrop, but also to
applications, like Word for windows, etc.

When the user exits Windows, the changes that they have made to
win.ini, etc should be filtered out, and saved back into the "user's
part" so that they will not be lost.

Does such a tool already exist? If not, would anyone be willing to
co-operate in a project to get such a thing going? I am familiar with
the structure of .ini files, and am a reasonably competent
C-programmer.

Fletch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: turnock@ccu.umanitoba.ca (James Lawrence Turnock)
Subject: Decreasing the space of volume SYS:
Summary: Need to free up space by decreasing the size of SYS:
Keywords: Delete, volume SYS:
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Distribution: comp.sys.novell
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:10:56 GMT


Any concerns or precautions I should be aware of before embarking on
deleting volume SYS: to win back some space for another volume?  I know 
I have to dismount, delete, create, and mount the volume, but I would 
appreciate any input on methods that should/could be used.

Thanks,

Jim Turnock
-- 

Jim Turnock	Continuing Education Division	University of Manitoba
Internet: Turnock@ccu.umanitoba.ca	Tel: (204) 474 8928
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plusz.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: fnixon@utkvx2.utk.edu (Nixon, John Fred)
Subject: Making a read only account on 3.11
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: read-only, system administration
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:32:00 GMT

I would like to make an account that has read only access to files in
all directories. The purpose is to have a "safe" account which can be
used to read any file on the server. We are running 3.11. I have read the
manuals, and as far as I can figure it, I wold have to add [r f] 
permissions to each directory to the account. Surely there is a better
way to do this? 

Thanks for any assistance!

fnixon@sol.cs.utc.edu
fnixon@utkvx.utk.edu
From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Sunbird a la 400ci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: ********** 3c503 DRIVER, PLEASE!!! ******
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:11:23 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.
X-Disclaimer: This article was posted by a user at Ericsson.
              Any opinions expressed are strictly those of the
              user and not necessarily those of Ericsson.


Anyone know where I can get the .obj and .lan files for 3c503?  Recent 
version, please, for workstation side of a 3.11 network.
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