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From: benny@csoc.COM (Benny Clark)
Subject: PC/NFS and MS Win 3.0 not printing
Organization: CAD Systems of Carolina
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:04:29 GMT

I'm running PC/NFS version 4.0 on a 386 20MHz pc with 8 Meg of RAM.  Whenever I try to access a local HP Deskjet printer directly connected to the PC, I never get any output.  Is this supported?  Is there more information that I need to supply?

Please email.  Thanks.

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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: chasman@athena.mit.edu (David Chasman)
Subject: Kerberos authenticated NFS for Silicon Graphics Machines ?
Keywords: kerberos, silicon-graphics, sgi, nfs
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:32:01 GMT

I'm looking for a Kerberos authenticated NFS for Silicon Graphics Machines -
running IRIX (personal irises ) any idea out there ?

chasman@mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: Free NFS Response Time Measurement Software
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 23:38:33 GMT


I noticed the article containing this remark in comp.benchmarks:


In article <1992Aug20.211509.8573@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, clc5q@hemlock.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman) writes:
> ...
> The MPH (milestones) test exercises Unix utilities. The AIM people apparently
> have a nonstandard idea of what the "standard" Unix utilities are: they say
> "utilities missing" instead of giving an MPH number for all systems tested
> from HP, IBM, Encore and Data General.



Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: NFS corruption discovery
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:36:35 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin

(John Zwiebel 303-977-1480 jzwiebel@pgl-devsvr.den.mmc.com) writes:
> I have a problem with NFS and NIS data corruption across my network.
> Some of the "blame" seems to be in my cisco routers - HOWEVER - I'm not
> willing to

We did, I *think* (don't quote me), have some sort of problem with
Ciscos which they provided a microcode fix for.

> I have a short script file that uses 'sum' which forces large files to
> be moved across the network to be summed.  I know what the sum 'should'
> be and when it's corrupted I get an error message.  This tells me the
> error occured but not why.  Any suggestions?

sounds like a great test to me.
You might try iptrace/ipreport on 3.2.  Try the -rsn flags.

Usage:  ipreport [-r -s -n -1 -2] tracefile
 -r: know about rpc
 -s: start lines with protocol indicator strings
 -n: number packets
 -1: trace was generated on AIX3.1
 -2: trace was generated on AIX3.2 (default)

Ipreport will give you a great idea of what packets should look like.

> I've also looked at lan traffic and I've discovered the UDP checksum
> is off for NFS packets.  Unfortunately the net isn't reliable enough to
> handle that.  We are getting the AIX change that will turn the
> checksums on.  Any other ideas on this point?

Latest ipreport is in ...

52961: ix25406 IPREPORT DOES NOT RECOGNIZED 'IFT_OTHER' ID
In the LPP bosnet, PTF U406320 shipped the following files:
     /usr/bin/ipreport
     /usr/bin/iptrace

Latest nfs.ext is in ...
56404: ix26926 PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION AND NFS REQUEST FAILING WITH TIMEOUT
In the LPP bos, PTF U406298 shipped the following files:
     /etc/nfs.ext
     /usr/etc/rpc.lockd

This last PTF is not shipped yet, I don't know why.  Hopefully it will
be ready soon.  The first on is orderable now.   This is 3.2 only info.
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: dlhanson@nap.amoco.com (David L. Hanson)
Subject: NSF server for a 386 or 486 PC
Organization: Amoco
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:22:05 GMT

I am looking for an NFS server for a 386 or 486 PC. We need it to 
handle	multiple NFS clients simultaneously.  What are my choices?	
Are there any that will run under DOS (providing multitasking by the
application itself)?

	
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: fitzgb@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald)
Subject: Re: Free NFS Response Time Measurement Software
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:12:49 GMT

Vernon Schryver writes:
>In article <nxfyh!-@rpi.edu>, fitzgb@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) writes:
>> >                    FREE NFS SERVER RESPONSE TIME UTILITY
>> >                    *************************************
>> 
>> ... cool program.  For anyone interested, here's an example output of
>> the free demo they sent me.  Good teaser for the sharpshooter.
>> ...
...
>I'd be very surprised if the AIM test is very valuable.  I could be
>wrong, of course, especially since I have never seen the AIM NFS test.
>
>I don't make this attack lightly, but the history of commerical
>benchmarks is not pretty.  If you think the system vendors are scum,
...

Don't know much about NFS, or NFS performance monitoring and tuning
myself, but at least look over the brochure before dismissing it out of
hand.

More to the point, that NFS performance tuning is such a lucrative
business is a telling commentary on the reliability of NFS.

Brian
From: davidi@deakin.OZ.AU (David H. Ivens)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: PC-NFS 4.0a problems
Date: 18 Aug 92 23:48:40 GMT
Organization: Deakin University


DKEY does not work with the 4.0a version of telnet.

We use DKEY to remap the keyboard ie. shift <F1> generates <ESC>op

Is their an alternative to DKEY available which works?


Excelerator is not compatible with NFS4.0a print re-director. Excelerator
uses a dongle attached to lpt1: but can not access it if PC-NFS 4.0a is
installed.The 3.0.1 print redirector works but can not replace the 4.0a
version of the print re-director.





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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: tomiii@mtu.edu (Thomas Dwyer III)
Subject: Re: RPC version 3?
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 21:20:34 GMT

sxn@eng.sun.com (Steve Nahm) writes:
>uresh@ovrbid.lkg.dec.com (Uresh Vahalia) writes:
>
>>Does the PC-NFS client use RPC version 3?
>>If so, is there a spec for this somewhere
>>in public domain?
>>What are the differences from RPC v2?
>
>There is only on version of the Sun RPC protocol, and that's version 2.
>

Ahh, but I suspect version 3 might not be too far away, since PC-NFS
tries version 3 first, which fails and then it tries version 2.


Tom.III
tomiii@mtu.edu
From: sxn@eng.sun.com (Steve Nahm)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: RPC version 3?
Date: 20 Aug 92 20:23:45 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: rand

uresh@ovrbid.lkg.dec.com (Uresh Vahalia) writes:

>Does the PC-NFS client use RPC version 3?
>If so, is there a spec for this somewhere
>in public domain?
>What are the differences from RPC v2?

There is only on version of the Sun RPC protocol, and that's version 2.

>My PC-NFS server seems to run into problems
>because the RPC code does not support
>any version other than v2.

There is probably some other problem that you're running into.  Here's one
possibility:  If your server is an SVR4-based system, it's *possible* that the
system manufacturer turned off the portmap-compatibility code in rpcbind.  In
SVR4, portmap was renamed to rpcbind, and the portmap protocol (version 2) was
revved to the rpcbind protocol (versions after 2).  If the server system's
rpcbind does not have the portmap capability turned on, your PC-NFS client
system won't be able to do RPC program number looks there.

One work-around to this is to get the version of rpcbind that's in TIRPCSRC
1.0, build and install it on your server.  Should build and run on an SVR4
system (though TIRPCSRC 1.0 is based on SunOS 4.1.x).  Be sure the -DPORTMAP
switch is used on the compile line.

Of course this may not be your problem at all, but your problem certainly is
not with the RPC protocol itself.

Steve
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How to get TIRPCSRC 1.0:

Sun's freely licensed implementation of Transport Independent RPC
(TIRPC), is now available as source code via anonymous ftp from
ftp.uu.net in the directory "networking/rpc" as the file named
tirpcsrc.tar.Z.  This is a compressed tar file.  This implementation of
TIRPC is compatible with SunOS 4.1 *only*, and requires root
priviledges for installation.

TIRPC is the version of Sun RPC that is part of System V Release 4
(SVR4).  See the "README" file in the distribution, as well as the
files in the doc and man directories, for further information.

To use anonymous FTP, use the ftp program to connect to ftp.uu.net.
When prompted for a user name, enter "anonymous".  When prompted for a
password, enter your user ID (such as "joeuser@sun.com").  Then change
directories (cd) to the "networking/rpc" directory, where you will find
tirpcsrc.tar.Z.

Also, TIRPC can be obtained on 1/4-inch tape from Sun for a $100 media
fee.  The tape also includes Sun's older sockets-based RPC (RPC Source
4.0) as well as a Beta version of TIRPC Source from SunSoft's upcoming
Solaris 2.0 (SVR4).  Send a check payable to SunSoft, Inc. to:

Dennis Freeman
ONC/NFS Technology Marketing Manager
SunSoft (a Sun Microsystems Company)
2550 Garcia Ave., MTV08-111
Mountain View 94043
Voice (415) 336-0955; Fax (415) 336-5620
Email: dennis.freeman@Eng.Sun.Com
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From: louis@fammed.wisc.edu (Wayne Louis Hoyenga)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Questions about Sun's PC-NFS
Summary: A couple of questions about Sun's PC-NFS
Keywords: pc-nfs sun
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:27:49 GMT
Organization: Physical Sciences Lab, UW-Madison

I have a couple of questions about PC-NFS.  First, why is it that a remote
shell executed from a machine that is logged in as 'nobody' has the root
uid and gid?  This is true of version 3.0.1 and 3.5.  I haven't yet tried
with version 4.0.  Second, version 4.0 mentions version 2 of the pcnfsd.
How do I get version 2 so that I can port it to my various machines?

Please respond with email as I do not get the chance to read news that
often.
From: geoff@tyger.Eng.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Quick question!!!!!!  (Please!)
Date: 15 Aug 1992 13:14:20 GMT
Organization: SunSelect
NNTP-Posting-Host: tyger.east.sun.com
Keywords: BSD

The bad news is that DEC no longer distributes the RPC libraries
necessary to build your own pcnfsd on Ultrix....

The good news is that they have several really good people working on
an official pcnfsd for Ultrix, and several other helpful people
who are covering things in the interim....
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From: gonzalod@amex-trs.com (Gonzalo Diethelm)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: AFS calls from C code
Date: 19 Aug 92 00:55:19 GMT



Distribution: world

Hello everyone,

This might be a FAQ, or maybe I should RTFM, but in this case
TFM is about 400 pages and I need this done REALLY SOON. So,
here it goes:

Does anybody know how to have AFS-like functionality in your
C code? Pipes or system() is not acceptable. For example,
how would you implement a function like:

int klog(char *username, char *password)
/*
 * Same thing as the Kerberos klog utility.
 */

but without opening a pipe and actually executing the program
in /usr/afs/bin/klog?

What I'm looking for specifically is a way of checking the
AFS information for a user given his/her login id, uid, etc.
The .h files in my /usr/afs/include directory don't even have
ANSI prototypes, and the manuals are VERY long and terse.
I haven't found any examples either. Can anybody lend a hand?
Please answer by e-mail. Thanks in advance and regards.

P.S. Just in case, I'm using AIX 3.2 and AFS 3.2b

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From: garrett@lib.washington.edu (Adam Garrett)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PC/NFS and MS Win not printing
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:57:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Aug20.185732.12620
Organization: University of Washington Libraries

In article <alan.714259789@edstar>, alan@edstar.ucsb.edu (Alan Moses) writes:
> Similar situation here: PCNFS 4.0a, Windows 3.1, WinWord 2.0a,
> with a Deskjet on LPT1 that prints fine from DOS but fails
> from WinWord (and Write). Even though it works fine from DOS
> with NFS loaded (so it's not purely NFS' problem), this
> same configuration worked just fine until I upgraded from
> PCNFS 3.5 to 4.0a. What's up? Any clues, Geoff?
> 
> - Alan

I talked to Microsoft again today, but this time I talked to someone who sounded like they knew what they were talking about.  He suggested that I might have
switch setting on my Thinkjet wrong.  Sure enough, as soon as I switched printer
out of HP control sequence mode and into Alternate control sequence mode, my MS True Type fonts started printing.  He said printing was probably fine with MS 3.0, but the addition of True Type fonts has created problems.  Not sure what the settings would be on a HP Deskjet.  Hope this helps.

Adam R. Garrett
University of Washington Libraries     INTERNET: garrett@lib.washington.edu
352 Suzzallo Library, FM-25            PHONE:    (206) 543-8843
Seattle, WA  98195                     FAX:      (206) 685-8049
From: knight@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Matthew Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: NFS upgrade for 4.3bsd
Date: 13 Aug 92 00:39:57 GMT
Organization: Western Washington University

Hello,

  Here at Western Washington University we have source for 4.3 (yes we
have the ATT licences) but it is an older release ('86) and does not
have NFS included.  I was wondering if there is an upgrade that just
gives NFS or is it time to call berkeley and get Tahoe or Reno.  I know
that Rick Macklem's code is in the NET-2 release, has anyone hacked this
into 4.3?

   This is for a MicroVAX II so I just can not wait for 4.4 to come out,
as far as I have heard the VAX line is not supported for 4.4. Oh and by
the way I want nothing to do with 386BSD etc so please don't send mail
telling me to buy a PC - thanks.

Thanks for any help!!!

Matthew J. Scott - knight@cc.wwu.edu
Western Washington University
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: idmrmb@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Mark Buffington)
Subject: Modem sharing using PC/NFS and Sun
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:22:41 GMT

Hi.
 I am posting this question for a friend.

We have a bunch of PC/DOS clients running PC/NFS connecting
to our Sun. On the Sun is a modem which the workstations
would like to be able to access. Is there some way to allow
the PC's access to the modem in a 'transparent' way? By
transparent I mean allowing them to run PC communcations 
software that thinks the modem is local to the workstation.

Thanks,
 Mark..
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: wai@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Julian Wai)
Subject: XDR
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 06:48:23 GMT

Hi,

Can anyone explain the difference between implicit and explicit typing
mentioned in rfc1014?  Is the example given at the end of the standard
explicit or implicit?  

Thanks in advance.

Julian
wai@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: hofmanh@prl.philips.nl (Hans Hofman)
Subject: NFS or Windows bug?
Summary: Windows aborts if doing rsh in DOS box
Keywords: PC-NFS Windows 3.1 RSH
Organization: Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, Netherlands
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:31:45 GMT


I'll try to send mail from within a Windows 3.1 DOS window using the command
rsh <host> /usr/lib/sendmail <to> < <message>
Windows aborts. Restarts result in the message Error: Unsupported DOS version.
And I have to re-boot.

Now, when I issue this command from plain DOS (5.0) command line, everything
is fine, and the message is sent.

Thanks for any hints.
Hans


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From: j.craick@trl.oz.au (John Craick)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Loading pcnfs.sys hi ?
Date: 19 Aug 92 08:15:21 GMT
Organization: Telecom Research Laboratories

We have PC-NFS patched up to version 3.5c running on a 386 clone with 8 
Mbyte memory under DOS 5.

We can do devicehigh=pcnfs.sys & everything has worked fine.

We need some extra switches to run Arcview & Win 3.1

i.e. devicehigh=pcnfs.sys /f60 /v

On boot up, we then get an error, "bad or missing pcnfs.sys"

Any clues on this one ? And/or, where can we get some info on the 3.5c 
version of PC-NFS with stuff about the switches & other compatibility 
considerations.

Any advice appreciated.

    John Craick
(j.craick@trl.oz.au)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: jdw@wucs1.wustl.edu (j d wilson)
Subject: Re: Quick question!!!!!!  (Please!)
Keywords: BSD
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 04:38:54 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.002812.8218@lclark.edu> herlock@sun.lclark.edu (Jon Herlocker) writes:
>
>	We have a network of SparcStations and a few DECstations.  We
>have rpc.pcnfs 4.0  running on all of our sparc stations.  I have two
>quick questions:  is pcnfsd available for BSD-only OS's such as Ultrix
>and if it is, is it free like the SunOS rpc.pcnfsd?
>

I'm not sure about pcnfs 4.0, but 3.5 comes with the source
code to pcnfsd, so, if your exerienced with Unix Internals etc...
you should be able to modify the source code to run with Ultrix.

We may be porting pcnfsd to Intergraph some day too.

Hope this helps!

j d wilson

Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: tomiii@mtu.edu (Thomas Dwyer III)
Subject: NFS over SLIP?
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:12:02 GMT

I would like to hear from anyone who uses NFS over a SLIP connection
from a PC.  I am not satisfied with the 9600 baud SLIP connection that
PC-NFS allows (Why is there a maximum speed of 9600 baud, anyway?)  If
you have a high speed connection, what client software do you use?
Also, can anyone recommend an efficient (e.g. fast) SLIP telnet/FTP
client?


Thank you,
Tom.III

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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: NFS corruption discovery
Date: 21 Aug 92 04:47:59 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In article <1992Aug21.020212.10792@decuac.dec.com>, mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
> vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
> 
> >People who prudently turn on UDP checksums will not (I hope) see data
> >corruption, but if whatever is corrupting data is present, they
> >will see NFS retransmissions.
> 
> 	To amplify on this:
> 
> 	People who turn on UDP checksumming (if they are so unfortunate
> as to have bought a deliberately broken operating system) and notice
> lots of bad checksums, should note that they have some kind of network
> problem, and should assume that they are suffering some kind of impact,
> performance-wise.
> 
> mjr.


Quite right.  (see, we can agree on something)

A 1.0% packet loss (i.e. 0.007% bit corruption rate in 1500KB UDP packets)
with common NFS timeouts is enough to reduce the maximum theoretical
NFS performance on an ethernet by 90%.  


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: jlph7@fel.tno.nl (Joost van Lawick van Pabst)
Subject: pcnfs4.0 telnet xonn/xoff
Organization: TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:52:47 GMT

I have just installed PCNFS4.0 and I'd like to
shut off the XON/XOFF protocol because it troubles
emacs.

How do I do this in the new version? I cannot find
it when I escape to the telnet prompt and look at the
different menus.

Joost

 
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: Free NFS Response Time Measurement Software
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:22:06 GMT

In article <4-gyl#c@rpi.edu>, fitzgb@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) writes:
> Vernon Schryver writes:
> >In article <nxfyh!-@rpi.edu>, fitzgb@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) writes:
> >> >                    FREE NFS SERVER RESPONSE TIME UTILITY
> >> >                    *************************************
> >> 
> >> ... cool program.  For anyone interested, here's an example output of
> >> the free demo they sent me.  Good teaser for the sharpshooter.
> >> ...
> ...
> >I'd be very surprised if the AIM test is very valuable.  I could be
> >wrong, of course, especially since I have never seen the AIM NFS test.
> >
> >I don't make this attack lightly, but the history of commerical
> >benchmarks is not pretty.  If you think the system vendors are scum,
> ...
> 
> Don't know much about NFS, or NFS performance monitoring and tuning
> myself, but at least look over the brochure before dismissing it out of
> hand.

What kind of brochure contains enough technical information to evaluate
something as complicated as a benchmark?  Brochures are generally 2 or
4 pages loing and are no more than come-on's to get you to look at the
product.  It's not as if half a dozen numbers or a list of 6 features
is enough to let you decide if a benchmark or a network file system is
wonderful or junk.


> More to the point, that NFS performance tuning is such a lucrative
> business is a telling commentary on the reliability of NFS.

If that were rephrased that, I might agree.

"Reliability" is entirely separate from "speed".  Or does the AIM
benchmark measure reliability in addition to or instead of "speed"?

In my opinion, the biggest single defect of the SPEC LADDIS effort is
that measurements of "speed" have not been sufficently separated from
considerations of "reliability".  Both issues are of vital importance,
but require very different techniques to quantify and are quantified in
entirely different units.


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com