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From: timothy@gab.unt.edu (Timothy Christian (CAS, x4175))
Subject: How come these NE3200s do not work?
Summary: NE3200s fail to receive frames after ATPS loads ...
Keywords: NW v3.11, ATPS, AMI EZ-Flex
Organization: College of Arts and Sciences
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:50:10 GMT

Hello,

        I just brought up an AMI EZ-FLEX 486DX/50 (not DX2) server with
        two ne3200 cards installed. We run IPX, TCP and EtherTalk on
        this server, but we ran into some problems, and I am hoping you
        can help.

        For some reason, when I load ATPS, the ne3200 card decides to
        stop receiving packets - and believes that it is still
        broadcasting (though it isn't). This information I learned from
        monitor.nlm and "track on." After a while, I'll get the "LAN
        receive buffer limit reached" message which eventually makes the
        server nose-dive. I don't think it is the ATPS that is causing
        the problem, though. I have heard *rumors* that some EISA
        adapters cannot handle multiple protocols, but surely the
        strongly supported NE3200 is not in this class.

        I have tried several different options including:

                set auto register memory above 16 megabytes = off
                Increasing the maximum physical packet size to
                        1530 (which fixes the no ECB avail count)
                Increasing minimum and maximum packet receive buffers
                Original ATPS without patches
                Original ATPS with patches
                New ATPS (no patches exist beyond this version, that
                        I know of)
                NE3200s in enhanced mode
                NE3200s in interrupts only mode

        I really feel that memory is being corrupted somehow, or I am
        having some other problem and this is a side-effect. I installed 2 
	Western Digital Elite/16 ISA cards in the same server and haven't 
	had this problem.

        Here is the pertinent hardware information:

                AMI 486DX/50 EZ-Flex
                Novell NetWare v3.11
                32 MB of RAM
                DL2000
                2 NE3200 (Rev H)
                Adaptec 1742 controller with an HP 2.4 GB disk
                        (running in enhanced mode)

        Here is the pertinent software information:
                Novell Netware 386 v3.11, 250 users
                atps.nlm        73724   3-27-92  13:48
                ne3200.lan      16041   8-09-91   8:21

        Can you think of anything I am missing?

	If you have a similar configuration running (Motherboard,
	protocols, software), I would be interested in hearing
	that this works *some* place.

I really appreciate any help you can provide,
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: dwd@aurora.cc.umr.edu (Dan DeNise)
Subject: Re: my own suggestion: compress error logs...
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:07:19 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University

Daniel Seeman (dseeman@novell.com) wrote:
> Actually we have a mechanism that allows you to turn those error messages off
> (as far as AppleTalk is concerned).  At the server, you can LOAD ATCON -L and
> you will get an extra menu labled LOGGING BITS.  In this section you can set
> which messages get put into your error log.  You will have to make some 
> decisions when using this feature as you will be losing an informational 
> resource when you turn off the error messages.  But the feature is useful.
> Give it a try.

Is there a way to set these options from AUTOEXEC.NCF.  We log about 250Kb
per month of 'ATALK Warning: rtmptimer - Net XXX went down' messages for
AppleTalk subnets on another campus.  I'd love to never see these messages.

Daniel W. DeNise <c0016@umrvmb.umr.edu>
Computer Center, University of Missouri - Rolla
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: MurkWorks Demo Site? 
Distribution: world
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 03:31:00 GMT
Organization: Crynwr Software

In article <tim.65.727481203@tim.src.utah.edu> tim@tim.src.utah.edu writes:

   Can someone please point me to the FTP site where Murkworks deposits their 
   demo programs?  

ftp.msen.com:pub/vendor/murkworks.

-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
Crynwr Software           Crynwr Software sells packet driver support.
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From: bpc@unb.ca (Brian Cassidy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: server crash
Summary: PS/2-80 Netware Server is chrashing 2 times a week
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:08:52 GMT
Organization: University of New Brunswick

>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
I have two model 80s with esdi drives. Work great. 
Do you have any special hardware (and related nlms) installed
other than the lan adapter and the memory expansion board?
Are you running any unusual nlms?

Brian Cassidy <BPC@UNB.CA>
From: jgjack@uctvax.uct.ac.za (Graham Jack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: NOVELL 3.11 Directory entries (HELP)
Date: 28 Jan 93 11:26:42 +0200
Organization: University of Cape Town

Hi NOVELL users, I hope you can help me with a problem,

  I run a NOVELL 3.11 server.  The server hardware consists of some SCSI
  disks on an ADAPTEC controller, a 33MHz 386DX processor and 32 Megabytes
  of memory.

  The problem is not the hardware, but the way in which NOVELL automatically
  increases the number of directory entries.  The following is a partial
  list of some of my volumes:

  Volume     TotalK   FreeK   UsedK  TotalD   FreeD   UsedD    %DEU
  ------     ------   -----   -----  ------   -----   -----    ----
  SYS        113316   28952   84364    9824    4761    5063    51.54% 
  VOL1        69624    7304   62320    5408    3081    2327    43.03%      
  DOCVOL     286800  127628  159172   69024   62735    6289     9.11%
  EEDEPT      62000    3520   58480   28384   26259    2125     7.49%
  EEDISK     225272   18804  206468   23776   15574    8202    34.50%
  BIGDATA    431000   28328  402672   25344   25153     191     0.75%
  SOFTWARE   250072   39780  210292   13984    6954    7030    50.27%
  UNDERGRAD  132000   44428   87572   15040    8167    6873    45.70%

  Totals:                            190784  152684   38100

  Key:  TotalK  =  Total size of the disk volume (in K)
        FreeK   =  Free space on the volume (in K)
        UsedK   =  Used space on the volume (in K)
        TotalD  =  Total number of directory entries on volume.
        FreeD   =  Number of free directory entires on volume.
        UsedD   =  Number of directory entires used on volume.
        %DEU    =  Percentage of the volumes directory entries in use.
        
  As you can see a the %DEU (Percentage Directory Entry Usage) of some
  of the volumes is rather poor.

  I have a number of questions, these are:

    1. Do unused directory entries take up entries in the directory
       caching space?  I suspect they do and this is what is causing
       me to be short of cache memory.

    2. Can one reduce the number of directory entries without recreating
       the volume?  I remember doing this on our old 2.15C server, but
       I cannot see any way to do it on a NOVELL 3.11 server.

  One interesting thing I found was a problem with WordPerfect 5.1 that
  caused vast numbers of zero length files to be created.  This is what
  caused DOCVOL's total directory entries to become so large.  If the
  files had some length, then they would have filled the volume and
  NOVELL would have to had purged them, but because they were zero length,
  this never happened and we ended up with 55000 of them! This problem
  only occurred in one user's directory and there are 10+ people using
  WP51 on that volume. I still do not know what he does to cause these
  files to get created. Any ideas?

  Thanks in advance for your help.

--
Graham Jack,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Cape Town.
e-mail: JGJack@Eleceng.uct.ac.za
From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Sunbird a la 400ci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: ******** CARVER MATHEIDAS *******
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:09:04 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 of the whereabouts of this incredibly capable Novell
 weenie? :-)

	Last seen somewhere in the halls of IBM.
.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: oddg@eiklh.no (Odd Gunnar Dalen)
Subject: Monitoring and statistic pgm. for 3.11 !!
Organization: Eik college of education, 3109 Tonsberg, Norway
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:23:05 GMT

Hello out there...
I'm looking for a program from witch I can study the traffic on our ethernet.
I have about 200 pc to keep helthy, so I could realy need something to help 
me out.
Does anyone know about such a monitoring program.


Thanks in advance......

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT])
Subject: Re: Netware nlm which gets time from bsd time server
Keywords: nlm
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:39:17 GMT

jh@fortec.tuwien.ac.at (Johann Haider) writes:

>In <740@oscar.UUCP> sparker@oscar.UUCP (Sean Parker) writes:
>>Is anyone out there aware of a nlm which allows a Netware client to set/sync
>>its clock from a BSD Time Server?

>Sean was so kind to mail the anwers he got to me, but he had lost the
>message about the rdate NLM. As his suggestion to query archie failed
>I ask the person who sent the answer to Sean, to post it to this group
>too. I think the answer should go to the FAQ too.

Since this NLM is a Murkworks freebie, its original site is ftp.msen.com,
pub/vendors/murkworks..

But you also might find this file in various ftp sites, among them
ftp.uni-kl.de, pub/pc/novell/rdatenlm.zip.

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: daborton@va (David A. Borton)
Subject: Re: UNIXWARE...phone numbers..EDU rep?
Organization: Novell, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:42:22 GMT

lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam) writes:
: Can anyone from UNIVEL/NOVELL/USL post a contact for getting educational
: pricing on UNIXWARE?
: 

Here are two UNIVEL phone numbers:

   800-4UNIVEL
   408-473-8788

They are the generic numbers, but should get you started.
--
Here am I sitting in a tin can...
From: stanworthdjh@vax1.bham.ac.uk (Dave <Rubicon>)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: NWPOPUP.EXE menu ??
Date: 28 Jan 93 21:59:34 GMT
Organization: University of Birmingham
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.bham.ac.uk

Fellows netters, 
 
I have been updating our machines with the new DOSUP6 and 
WINUP7 files, and generally speaking everything has gone 
well. 
 
The only real problem seems to be with the new NWPOPUP.EXE 
and NETWARE.DRV files.  I have installed them as specified, 
and I have created an INI called NETWARE.INI, and have inserted 
the apropriate lines.  However, on booting up Windows I can not 
seem to get the F6 key to bring up a menu.  I've inserted 
NWPOPUP.EXE in the Load= line, but when I do a task check, it 
does not seem to be running.  If I receive any mail, an alert 
box appears, so I presume that I must be doing something right! 
 
What is the NETWARE.INI file for, and what usually creates it? 
Should I be in SUPERVISOR mode to get access to the menu? 
Is the menu really worth all this trouble ?? 
 
Thanks in anticipation, 
Dave 

-- 
Dave [Rubicon]

.sig deleted due to good taste
From: ostrove@goofy.umd.edu (Steven M. Ostrove)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Legato NetWorker -- Which novell fixes do I need to apply (v3.11 server)?
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:18:30 GMT

Hello,

I'm in the process of lending my test server in an effort to see how the Legato  
NetWorker backup works.  The problem is the following...

In reading the "Read this first" document that came with the ClientPak III  
software it states that many of the required NLMs rely on CLIB.NLM "which has a  
number of bugs fixed by PATCH-311.NLM, supplied by Novell".  The problem here  
is that the University is a member of the Education Account Purchase Program  
for NetWare, which is effect a kind of "site license".  While we have gotten  
updates for the OS, i.e. 3.10 to 3.11, we have never received any patches.

In any case I downloaded the 311ptc.zip file from ftp.novell.com.  The file  
indicates that it contains the latest release of NetWare v3.11 Operating System  
Patches.  But there is no PATCH-311.NLM or anything like CLIB.NLM.   
Furthermore, the Legato readme file goes on to state "Legato is making  
available a version of STREAMS from Novell which has not been officially  
released by Novell"...  There may be unfavorable interactions between this  
version of STREAMS and Appletalk and/or the COM server facilities, as well as  
with other facilities.  The reason we include this NLM is to solve the "SPX  
flow control problem": which prevents NetWorker or SMS from working properly  
from remote machines.  Should you wish to use the standard STREAMS package  
(most recent official bug fix release from Novell)...

O.K...  What is the most recent official bug fix release from Novell???  Again,
their is no STREAMS anything that came with the 311ptc.zip file.  Later in the  
readme file from Legato it is written, "Should you decide to use the older  
STREAMS, be certain that you do not load the patch called SPXFIX1.NLM.  This  
patch can cause you system to crash very quickly when used with the old STREAMS  
modules.

This is too bad as at least the zip file contained the SPXFIX1.NLM, but I guess  
I'm not supposed to use it.... I think...

(Legato documentation)
However, when using the new STREAMS only, SPXFIX1.NLM should be loaded, as it  
will prevent small amounts of short-term memory from being lost."

It this the "new Novell STREAMS" or the Legato supplied STREAMS?????

Finally, in the 311PTC.ZIP file is a total of 43 (that's right, 43!) NLMs or  
EXEs that I could potentially load in my 250 user version of NetWare!  Which  
ones should I load??

If anyone (hello, Novell, are you listening out there????) can shed any light  
on this I will be extremely thankful.

Oh, please don't ask me to get in contact with our "Designated Novell  
Reseller", we are trying right now to renegotiate our relationship with them  
because they currently won't do anything for us unless we pay them $$$$$$$, no,  
not even patches!

Thanks in advance.
--
Steve Ostrove
University of Maryland
Computer Science Center
College Park, Md.  20742
(301) 405-2953
ostrove@goofy.umd.edu
From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: novastor DAT software
Date: 24 Jan 93 12:51:14 MDT
Distribution: comp.sys.novell
Organization: Utah State University

In article <uhubb.727770250@mcl>, uhubb@mcl.ucsb.edu (Richard Hubbell) writes:
> Anyone had any experience with Novastor backup software? I have and it has been
> mostly bad.  It just doesn't seem to be very robust. Can someone tell me what
> the trick is with this software? i.e. What is a btree error? (yes btree)
> 
------
	On the contrary, I find Novaback to be very good indeed, and I have
put it to some very hard real life tests. From the appearance of things you
have a systems conflict with some data base related program.
	Joe D.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: dan@ortta.umn.edu (Daniel C. Cummings)
Subject: LWP4.1 and XPC
Organization: U of Mn
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:14:40 GMT

Has anyone using LWP 4.1 with the XPC program noticed that the server PC (
the host with XPC loaded) must be at a DOS prompt for XPC to respond to an 
incoming Telnet session?  Is there a way around this?  It would be nice to 
be able to telnet to your office PC, start up a process (say a program 
compile, or a large database sort), break the connection (Control-x, q) and 
then be able to telnet in later to check on it's progress *while the program 
is still running on the host PC*.  Or as another example, have an endless 
loop batch file running on the host PC to always force the incoming telnet 
session to a particular application.  But alas, when this is done, the 
host PC acts like it's busy and won't respond.....

Part of what I'm after could also be achieved if it was possible to tell 
XPC to do some command upon a successful connection (like run a batch file) 
or upon a broken connection (say...reboot the PC).....any Novellers out 
there with any suggestions??

Thank you much!!!!


Regards -

Dan

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From: brian@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: looking for archives of comp.sys.novell
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:36:59 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services


Hello all

Does there exist an archive site for comp.sys.novell that one could
ftp past articles from? 

Info greatly appreciated

brian nelson
sr. system programmer
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:07:27 EST
From: Michael G. Mlynarczyk <MMLYNAR@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: SGI printer problem with 3.11

I have a problem getting a Silicon Graphics system running BSD Unix (I think)
to be able to send a print job to Novell Print Servers.  I have Novell NFS
1.2 and have SUN and DEC workstations and a Cray supercomputer all printing
just fine, but the SGI workstation fails.  The message the SGI system gives
is that "LPR must be able to login to host to print"  I have even set up a
LPR user on the file server to see if that would solve the problem.  Nothing.
Anyone have any ideas how to get an SGI workstation to print to Novell
printers.
Thanks for the help
From: martin_ostendorf@solaris.hamm.sub.org (MARTIN OSTENDORF)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Low-level print routines used in Novell-Net
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:11:40 +0100

Hi everybody!
I just coded a low level printout routine for printing
screens in graphic mode. To keep it fast enough I have
to adress the parallel port directly, handle the handshakes
and so on. 
The thing is running fine on single machines, but as soon
as I try to print in a Novell Net, the job gets terminated
by the print-manager without reason.
Can anybody tell me why, or recommend a FAQ-file ?
Thanks a lot,
Martin Ostendorf, Aachen, Germany
martin_ostendorf@solaris.hamm.sub.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: remilld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jason Remillard)
Subject: LANalyzer/Novell3.11 (Server not responding Errors)???
Keywords: Novell,LAN,LAnalyzer,Windows,servers
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:39:21 GMT

Yes, I have finally gotten LAnalyzer for netware in windows running after
hunting for ever for promiscuous mode drivers for our 3c507 cards.

One question though.  When I've got it running, it pulls up the station
names, and server names no problem.  But, almost instantaneoulsy it starts
reporting that our 2 novell servers and even the print servers are not
responding!  

	Maybe a time-out somewhere in the wire?  I can't find anything in the
menus except for the threshold variable settings, of which menitions nothing
about servers...


	IMHO, Novell didn't do such a great job of documenting this product.
I couldn't even find in the docs what DI.com really does!!  and an almost
non-existant help section..

Thanks.


-- 
Jason L.M. Remillard		REMILLARD@ceddwntwn.lan1.umanitoba.ca
MicroLab Assistant		Jason_Remillard@UManitoba.CA
University of Manitoba		REMILLD@ccm.umanitoba.ca
********* Using MS Windows, and regretting it....
From: rick@wet.UUCP (Rick Rutledge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: How come these NE3200s do not work?
Date: 26 Jan 93 06:06:32 GMT
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco

mcollins@db (Marty Collins) writes:
>: Hello,
>:         two ne3200 cards installed. We run IPX, TCP and EtherTalk on
>:         this server, but we ran into some problems, and I am hoping you
>:         can help.
>: 
>:         For some reason, when I load ATPS, the ne3200 card decides to
>:         stop receiving packets - and believes that it is still
>:         broadcasting (though it isn't). This information I learned from
>:         monitor.nlm and "track on." After a while, I'll get the "LAN
>:         receive buffer limit reached" message which eventually makes the
>:         server nose-dive. I don't think it is the ATPS that is causing
>:         the problem, though. I have heard *rumors* that some EISA
>:         adapters cannot handle multiple protocols, but surely the
>:         strongly supported NE3200 is not in this class.
>
>Get the latest ne3200.lan driver that is version 3.18 in the ne386.zip
>file on Netwire. THere was some timing problems with the original
>version of the ne3200.lan.

I worked with Novell Tech Support on a similar problem - 2 NE3200's that
wouldn't happily coexist.  Drove me crazy (me and about 120 LAN users...),
and we finally concluded that the 2 cards couldn't coexist, even after
trying several versions of the LAN drivers.  I've heard numerous reports to
that effect.  I guess I'll have to get on NetWire and see if the driver
there is the one I had.  (I had one that apparently wasn't fully tested, as
I had to get a password to download it.)

It'd be nice to not have to return the second card, though I've been told
that if I want good performance from an EISA card, the 3C509 is
top-of-the-line because of the parallel I/O processors.  There won't be much
on the segment besides the server and the router, so it would seem that I
could take advantage of the card's ability to really pump the data out.
Thoughts?


-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: wilmes@ita.uni-heidelberg.de (Martin Wilmes)
Subject: ODINSUP for ARCNet
Organization: Institut fuer theoretische Astrophysik, Uni Heidelberg
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:02:46 GMT

 
  Does anyone know how to make ODINSUP workable for ARCNet? In the
  documentation is said that adding support for ARCNet should be no
  problem at all. I tried to contact Novell on this but got no response.

  Martin Wilmes
  Universitaet Heidelberg
  Germany

  Internet: q91@vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de