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From: anzick@watson.ibm.com (Bill Anzick)
Subject: Reconfiguring NT
Summary: How does one add/remove devices from NT
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 13:32:22 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: anzick@watson.ibm.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Does anyone know the proper procedure to add/remove devices from an installed NT
system?  I had a system which originally did not have a CD-ROM drive on it so I
installed NT via the LAN.  I then got a CD-ROM drive and installed it on the
machine.  However, I could not get NT to recognize it.  I tried going through
"NT Setup", but it just referenced device drivers, and the SCSI driver was already
installed.
I ended up totally reinstalling NT from the local CD-ROM, but there must be a
better way!

Bill Anzick
From: lfosdal@falcon.no (Lars Fosdal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Oct'92 mouse/LAN problems - Help(!)
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:09:10 GMT
Organization: Falcon Information Services AS, Oslo, Norway

I installed the October beta of NT and it boots/works OK, but...

  The mouse doesn't respond !
  The network doesn't (net)work !


Hardware config:
Motherboard   : 486/33, ISA, AMI-BIOS, 16MB, 1 parallell, 2 serial
Disks, Primary: 100MB IDE (C:10MB, E:90MB) 
     Secondary: 200MB IDE (D:200MB) 
Video         : Trident 8900 based, running at std VGA rez.
Mouse         : Logitech Mouse Man, Bus version, IRQ 3
                (Doc says MS Bus mouse compatible)
Network cards : W8003E, IRQ 5, I/O 280h
                W8003E, IRQ 7, I/O 320h
                                
Software config:
NT was installed from the CD-ROM over the LAN and onto drive E:
(Both FAT and NTFS was tried).
Swapfile is 28MB on drive E:,  MS Bus mouse driver,  SMC/WD 8003 EP driver

Yes, I remembered to give the Network cards different memory areas.
Also, If I change the network IRQ and reconfigure it in NT, NT hangs
on the next boot, shortly after displaying the login msg (Ctrl-Alt-Del).

Ideas, anyone ?

Lars F.
--
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/ Falcon Information Services AS, Stranden 1, N-0250 Oslo, Norway /
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Subject: Re: NT not multiuser, then Unix is not a competing OS
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16g by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:32:33 GMT

In <C0p95w.7M5@news.iastate.edu> martin@iastate.edu (Martin R Calsyn) writes:
>
>I wouldn't be too sure about those telnet servers (telnetd) for NT.  I
>embarked on such a project, only to be thwarted.  If there's interest,
>I'll post the official reply from MicroSoft, but essentially, a crucial
>API call set is not available.

Yes, please post it. I didn't take a closer look to the security API and
the Service Control Manager API now, but I have heard different opinions
about this topic. As far as I know, you can change the owner of a process,
when you know userid and password.

There is something, that also contradicts to your opinion: When you go to
the Control Panel, select services and then configure a service you can
choose to start this service under the system account (get full access)
or to supply a Userid/Password to start the service under a different
security context.

The appropriate way to start a telnetd, would be to run it through the
Service API (NET START TELNETD). Maybe someone from Microsoft can comment
on this.

Christoph
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From: blpware@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Boris La-Pierre)
Subject: SCSI from Future Domain (comes with Toshiba CD-ROM)
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 13:42:19 GMT

I have been wondering if the SCSI Adapter from Future Domain that comes
with the Toshiba CD-ROM will also word fine with SCSI hard disks?
Has anyone had experience in this?

Also, if not with NT, will it work with DOS and Windows (assuming
the right drivers are there)?

Any info is appreciated!
;-) Boris of BLPware
From: mcdan@berlioz.nsc.com (Eric McDaniel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: convert documentation
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:18:16 GMT
Organization: National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara


Another question regarding converting a partition to NTFS:

I have one physical drive with DOS installed on the C:
partition and Windows NT installed on the D: partition.  I
have successfully converted the D: partition to NTFS, but
after doing so can't boot DOS -- it just hangs up.

Is it possible to read an NTFS partition using DOS?  Actually
I would settle for just being able to boot DOS again, even if
it ignores the NTFS partition.

THanks in advance.
-Eric McDaniel
mcdan@berlioz.nsc.com
From: toddy@uni-paderborn.de (Thomas Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: X-Windows and NT
Date: 6 Jan 1993 10:38:28 GMT
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: joe.uni-paderborn.de

Hi !

Is it possible to install and run X11R5 Libarys and programs on a NT 
machine. Is there an implementation up to now ?

I don't like the program mananger, and i think the best desktop would
be X-Windows !

        
         Thanks

                Toddy@uni-paderborn.de          
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: dan@watson.ibm.com (Walt Daniels)
Subject: Re: POSIX open and NTFS
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:29:19 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York

POSIX specifies a minimum filename length of 14. It does not say
anything about Sys V or BSD. It does not have any notion of
filename+extension. Thus a DOS filename of xxxxxxxx.yyy would have a
length of 12. The dot is just a character.
--


Walt Daniels         (IBM)<dan@watson.ibm.com>      914 784-6736
                     (Internet)<dan@watson.ibm.com>
From: mcnitt@gaea.bch.msu.edu (Kevin Lee McNitt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: Oct. beta and DTC3290 SCSI host ?!?
Date: 9 Jan 93 00:43:02 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: gaea.bch.msu.edu

I downloaded the Beta driver about a month and a half ago and got it to work
fairly quickly, it has a readme file to follow to get it to use the DTC driver
 this work quitte well except it found two controllers first 1542 and then the 
DTC  it then showed my partion options but had every thing doubled
   c:      300 meg part dos 
    d:     2000 meg unknown ( my unix partion)
   it then had a repeat of the above for e and f

 c: and d: are for your drive from when it thought the DTC was a 1542 and
  the e and f are the drive from dtc to make sure it worked I removed
  the driver for 1542 from the install flooppy so it only found the dtc
  and labeld them C: D: and then everything installled just great.

	Kevin Mcnitt
         mcnitt@itr1.bch.msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: ddoherty@ics.uci.edu (Donald Doherty)
Subject: Re: Can't run dos or win3.1 apps under NT
Keywords: NT DOS Win3.1
Reply-To: ddoherty@ics.uci.edu (Donald Doherty)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:44:56 GMT

  So far, everyone I've spoken with having the sort of problem you're
having (the virtual DOS machine not working) has always been due to too
little disk space for memory swap.

  Generally, it's been my experience that you need at least 30megs of disk
space and preferably more.

Don

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: c263-ah@cs.berkeley.edu (Joey Wang)
Subject: POSIX open and NTFS
Organization: UC Berkeley CS Dept.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:46:39 GMT

Is it a bug that the POSIX open() on an NTFS will not allow long filenames
even the the underlying system supports it?  Does anyone know if POSIX
specifies system V 14 character or BSD long filenames?  (In the case of
NT, even a nine character filename is rejected.)
From: 8907579@ul.ie
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Keyboard problem with Oct NT Beta - Help!
Date: 6 Jan 93 10:29:15 GMT
Organization: University of Limerick, Ireland

Hello all,

I'm having a problem with the keyboard under Oct NT. I have NT installed on
a Dell 486 with 16Mb main memory and an Adaptec SCSI adapter in standard mode. 
Up to now, everything had worked fine, but now the keyboard is refusing to
function correctly. When I ALT-CTRL-DEL to get the login screen up, the only
keys that work are the cursor keys and the DELETE key. In other words I can't 
enter my password. Unfortunately the file system is NTFS so when I boot DOS
I can't access the c: drive to have a look at the ini files. Booting DOS does
show that the keyboard is working however. Do I have to reinstall everything?
Is their an equivalent DOS device driver available for NTFS to the FSFILTER 
driver to access HPFS partitions on OS/2 2.0? 

Help, suggestions, etc. would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
David McCormack.

I must be the only person in the world who couldn't bother to figure out the
.signature thing!

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Subject: Re: Installation/Configuration problems with Oct Beta
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:43:26 GMT

In <1993Jan05.194854.27129@watson.ibm.com> anzick@watson.ibm.com (Bill Anzick) writes:
>4. When I remote install NT on the PS/2 M80 A31, everything installs fine.  However, when
>   I attempt to run certain programs, I get an application error.  A typical example is
>   executing WRITE against an WRI file, I get "The instruction at 0x60615974 referenced
>   memory at 0x00000000.  The memory could not be written"  The application error comes
>   from ntvdm.exe.  When I select "CANCEL", it shows that the instruction is a POP ESI,
>   I have tried all different memory sizes and configurations to no avail.

This error was reported from many people having only 8 MB RAM. How much
do you have in this machine? Also, if you have a Token-Ring-Card installed,
there are problems running DOS-Apps. There is a fix available for it on
CI$ in Library 1(?) of the WINNT Forum, called WNT002.ZIP, which contains
a new NTOSKRNL.EXE and NTVDM.EXE. Maybe you should try this one.

I personally had not trouble running NT on a Model 90 with an IBM-Token-
Ring-Card installed.

Christoph
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From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Subject: Re: Help unistalling Windows NT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 04:00:19 GMT

In <2B48B2E8.2945@deneva.sdd.trw.com> reimert@mamacass.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert) writes:
>
>WindowsNT (tm) has several hidden files that it deposits in the root directory
>of the C: drive, even if you are using the flexboot option and the C: drive is
>DOS (or something else). You'll need to get rid of all the NT files in the
>root directory on C:. Some of the NT files are not hidden, so just poke around
>and nuke files that don't belong there.
>

If you do so, you won't be able to boot the system from harddisk, since
NT installs a boot sector, that loads NTLDR instead of IO.SYS. If there is
no NTLDR. The system won't boot. Be sure to reinstall a correct boot sector
to boot DOS again. The best method is to type SYS C:, when booting from a
diskette with your DOS-Version.

Christoph
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Internet: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de       | D-W-3550 Marburg
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From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
Subject: Re: Reading the NT cd-rom on Sun Sparc???
Date: 05 Jan 93 10:16:26 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1992Dec30.213315.9783@newsgate.sps.mot.com> jas@wdc.sps.mot.com writes:
>
>   Does any one know if it is possible to use the Sun cd-rom players
>to read the beta NT cd-rom??
>   Or put another way, is the NT cd-rom format the HSFS or ISO-9660??

Yes, the win32 sdk cd-roms are iso 9660 format -- Alistair
From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: Two beginner's questions
Date: 6 Jan 93 13:51:41 GMT
Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers

In <1icf97INNf7i@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> gunnelj@curie.CS.ORST.EDU (John A. Gunnels) writes:
>1.  Is there supposed to be ANYTHING in system.ini?  Mine contains
>    absolutely nothing.  If it wouldn't be too much trouble (and if
>    system.ini is NOT supposed to be empty) could someone send me
>    a copy of theirs?

The SYSTEM.INI is only there for compatibility with Windows 3.x apps, that
use this file. The same is with WIN.INI. In Windows/NT everything is stored
in the "Registry". If you want to look at it, start REGEDIT.EXE. But don't
change anything, if you are not familiar with the registry (or have the CD
ready for reinstalling from scratch).

In the registry, there is also a section called INI-File Mapping, which
causes that Windows 3.x apps, that issue WriteProfileString or
WritePrivateProfileString to write the data in the registry. You can
choose between storing on a per user basis or per machine basis. This
causes, that Win 3.x apps store certain things on per user basis.

>2.  The S3 drivers seem to work very nicely with my Stealth card
>    but moving stuff around does not seem to happen as fast as
>    under Windows.  Why is that?

Windows NT is not optimzed for speed yet and there is a lot of debug code
in it, especially in Video Device Drivers. So don't expect everything to
be quite fast now.

Christoph
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From: blpware@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Boris La-Pierre)
Subject: Re: Toshiba 3301 and Adaptec 1542b
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:55:23 GMT

msieber@csghsg5a.bitnet writes:

>TOSHIBA CD ROM 3301 with ADAPTEC 1542B
>======================================
>
>When I bought my Toshiba CD-ROM (3301), it was bundled
>with a future domain controller. However, I installed
>the Adaptec 1542B with my CD-ROM and it works fine 
>under Windows NT !
>Well when I tried to install the drivers for DOS, I
>couldn't find a driver for the CD ROM with the 
>Adaptec-Adapter. (If I had taken the FD, there would 
>have been a driver, but I took the Adaptec because
>of NT.)
>There must be other people with Toshibas (because of
>the SDK) that run them with an Adaptec, and even
>run it sometimes under DOS.
>
>Could anybody tell me, where I find those DOS-Drivers?
>
>	Martin Sieber

You need the MSCDEX.COM (or .EXE?) driver in you autoexec.bat (or
whereever) installed. I think it comes with the extra Adaptec drivers
(Adaptec and Corel got together am produced a packet of drivers).
This will allow you to configure DOS with the CD-ROM as a normal
DOS drive (such as E:).

Boris of BLPware ;-)
>
From: garyng@gnct.com (Gary Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: NT not multiuser, then Unix is not a competing OS
Date: 9 Jan 93 07:51:18 GMT
Organization: Global Network Communication Technology Co.

robert@koko.csustan.edu (Robert Zeff) writes:

> NI *is* multiuser via net login form another NT workstation.  It is not
> currently working in the October beta, though.
> 
> -robert
> 

NT is not multiuser in the sense that it do not allow more than 1 person to
logon and use it simultaneously(in the way one logon to unix or ibm mainframe).

NT is multiuser in the sense that it can act as a file server/database server 
etc. since it has LM in the OS(though it is not working right now).

-gary


garyng@gnct.com (Gary Ng)
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From: coffler@dbased.enet.dec.com (Jeff Coffler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: NT questions: DOS compatibility and FLEXBOOT configuration
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:56:53 GMT
Reply-To: coffler@dbased.enet.dec.com (Jeff Coffler)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua, NH


I have two questions on NT (I think they'll be easy to answer):

  (1)	DOS programs don't REALLY seem to be compatible.  If I have a text
	program, that seems to work fine.  However, other DOS programs that
	require graphics access (VGA-type access) won't run!

	Is the NT DOS emulation only for text mode, or can VGA stuff run as
	well?  If so, how?

  (2)	On FLEXBOOT: I have three operating systems: DOS, NT, and UNIX.  It's
	easy to boot either DOS or NT via FLEXBOOT.  Another partition, when
	it's marked active, will let me boot UNIX as well (partition one is a
	FAT file system; paritition two is a UNIX file system).

	Currently, I need to run fdisk under UNIX to mark the DOS/NT partition
	as active, and then the disk manager under NT to mark UNIX active when
	I'm going back.

	I tried adding a line to BOOT.INI, but NT seems to want to find a file
	called "ntosldr.exe" (or something like that) in the UNIX partition.
	Clearly, that won't work (NT doesn't understand the UNIX filesystem).

	Any ideas of what to add to BOOT.INI so that NT will boot off of the
	paritition as if it was the "active" partition?

Thanks for any help ...

	-- Jeff
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: erc@netcom.com (Eric Smith)
Subject: Re: Do you use a MS mouse? (summary)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 07:20:32 GMT

Thanks to everyone who replied to my mouse question.  The consensus is
that the ball does go into the hole till it's approximately even with
the surface, so that is not the problem.

After looking more closely inside, I now suspect that the small plastic
roller in the corner inside might be bad, and not have enough spring
tension to keep the ball in place, which might cause the ball to wobble
between the rollers, periodically losing contact with one of them.  That
agrees with the symptom, which is for the cursor to skip across the sreen
erratically instead of following the mouse movement smoothly.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: alexism@ngc.com (Alexis Mermet)
Subject: windbg
Summary: Problem: windbg, .LIB and show variables
Keywords: NT debugger
Organization: Network General Corporation
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:39:46 GMT

I have a C++ program made of a main .CPP part and a .LIB library.
The library is built with the lib utility with option -debugtype:both and 
program is compiled with the full debug options -Od -Zi.

When I run this program under WINDBG, I can only see in the Locals window
the variables whose class is defined/implemented in the main part of the
program ( the one that got linked as an .OBJ )

Any object defined/implemented in the .LIB cannot be displayed by WINDBG.
I get the message: Error, invalid type OMF information ... or something
like that.

Anyone has ever seen this before, Any ideas ? 
Thanks,
-- 
Alexis MERMET-GRANDFILLES		Voice: 415-617-2943
Software Engineer. R&D    		Fax:   415-321-0855
Network General Corp.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: tez@brahms.udel.edu (Timothy E Zickus)
Subject: newer CD-Rom compatibility list (Win/NT)?
Organization: Quantum Development Corp.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:16:56 GMT

I have been calling around for quotes on CD-ROM drives for use with
both OS/2 2.0 & Win/NT, but alas it seems that the last Hardware
Compatibility List that I got from Microsoft lists a lot of drives
that aren't readily available any more (at least according to the
places we've called).

Does anyone know of a newer compatibility list, or better yet, can
give a resounding reccomendation for a particular CD drive / SCSI
card under Win/NT?  

Has anyone had experience with Mitsumi drives?  They seem to be
pretty inexpensive...

Please respond via e-mail, I'll summarize to the net.

Thanks in advance!

Tim Zickus
Quantum Development Corp.
tez@brahms.udel.edu
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