From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Basic Netware Questions ??
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:48:57 GMT
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

mcintosh@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Phil McIntosh) writes:

>apologies if these are FAQs but, I could find mention of a regular FAQ
>posting or archive site where such would be available.

This group really needs a FAQ - what about crossposting the 
bit.listserv.novell FAQ ?

>	i/- When running wsgen on a harddrive subdirectory, which file
>	contains the reference to the disk label of the driver source
>	file.

The wsgen Software has to be in a directory (maybe root). The drivers from
the several disks have to be in subdirectories, whose names are those of 
the disk labels, e.g. LAN-DRV-.001

>	ii/- A 100 user license, refers to 100 logical connections or
>	100 concurrent users.

True. Not logged in but connected station also count.

>	iii/- Is it true that syscon v3.62 has a bug in it that can
>	cause the loss of all subdirectories off the root of a volume.

I never heard of. But I run V 3.66, which you probably can get from the Novell
ftp server (if it ever gets online again).

>	iv/- On v3.11 in monitor, under connection information, you
>	can see machines that have run netx but aren't logged in, how
>	can this same information be obtained on a v2.12 server.

Oh dear, I'm not a museum guide :-)
Sorry, I don't know exactly, from what I've heard you should try fconsole.

>	v/- Are there any novell or third party products available for
>	async (modem) access to a v3.11 server from a users (non
>	administrator) point of view.

Several. Most of them require at least a dedicated PC to run on.
You can either route IPX over the phone (you should have a damned fast
modem :-)) or have a local 386 machine doing the work and you only
get the screen changes.
For the latter, try PC/anywhere. Novell also has a product of that kind.

>	vi/- How, under 3.11 can a supervisor, see the default printer
>	settings of another user.

I don't know about the actual settings, but the data seen in PRINTCON 
is in a file PRINTCON.DAT in the User's maildirectory.
So - save your own printcon.dat
     copy the user's printcon.dat into your maildir sys:mail\1
     call printcon and look and/or change what you like
     copy the file back to the user's maildirectory
     restore your own printcon.dat

This can all be done by a batch-file - Mail me if you need it.

>	vii/- What are ipxpktd and ipxboth in reference to clarkson
                       ^^^^^^^     ^^^^^^^
>	drivers.  i.e. are they generic etc.

Sorry, I don't know files with these names. There are solutions for

- running a novell redirector (shell) on top of Packet drivers
  Look for the BYU-file novell.exe or the intel-packet-driver-shell

- running an odi Interface on top of an ethernet-packetdriver
  Look for pdether

- running a packet-driver interface on top of ODI-drivers
  Look for ODIPKT

>	viii/- What do people think of checkit for lan as compared to
>	netware care or any other third party product.

Sorry, no Idea

>	ix/- Is this the only netware/novell related newsgroup around.

See above - no. bit.listserv.novell, available as mailing-list or newsgroup.
carries about twice as much traffic as here (and a little bit more noise).

>	Any information or comments on any/all of the above questions
>would be greatly appreciated.

HTH.

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr

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