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From:         "Jeffrey G. Brown" <usr0377a@TSO.UC.EDU>
Subject:      re: Moving a File Service
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>This will work, another way to make sure that the old service is not
>"picked-up" by streettalk is to backup the service to tape and delete
>it.  Then create a network event i.e. create another new service,
>like a dummy service, just to go out and make the network re-evaluate
>all of the services that it sees.  This will force vines to forget
>about the old service and will allow you to re-create the service on a
>new server successfully without vines getting too confused.  I
>recently tried this and it worked.

The problem with that from my point of view is that, being a paranoid
schizophrenic  :)  , I live in mortal fear of losing my users' data.
Therefore I insist on being able to restore the files to their new
service _before_ deleting the old service.

The problem I'm having now is that my first server has a Banyan 320/525
external tape drive, and the second (new) server has an internal DAT
drive. Naturally, it's more than a little difficult getting the data
cartridges from the first to fit into the second (they're a real bitch
to fold). I tried over this past weekend to transplant the Adaptec
AHA1542B SCSI controller from server 1 (Compaq SystemPro 386) to
server 2 (Compaq SystemPro/LT 486DX50), without success. I now have my
Compaq dealer looking for a cable that will let me attach the Banyan
tape drive to the Compaq SCSI controller in server 2.

Thanks to all who replied to my original post. This list never ceases to
amaze me with the combined knowledge of its denizens.

Jeffrey G. Brown
usr0377a@tso.uc.edu
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From: scoggin@opus.ee.udel.edu (John K Scoggin)
Subject: NTP for VINES
Organization: Delmarva Power & Light Company
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:27:59 GMT

I tried to anonymously FTP ntp100.zip from infoservices1.dis.cccd.edu, but
it won't let me login with anonymous ... (I used scoggin@udel.edu as the
password, per Internet custom).

	- John  

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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:29:21 EDT
From:         Laura=Zuromsky%SupportServices%Banyan@MAGNOLIA.BANYAN.COM
Subject:      sco unix & vines
X-To:         banyan-l@vm1.cc.uakron.edu

Elliott:

Have you seen the press releases Banyan just put out on the new VINES for SCO
UNIX?  They were just released 7/27.
I think they answer most all the questions you asked except the ship date,
and I don't know that myself yet.

I'd offer to post these notices over to csus.edu if you don't already have
them, but with John Jabusch being out for the next couple of weeks, that
probably won't be much help right now.

Would be happy to fax you (and other list members) copies if you're
interested....  if so, write me back with a fax number...

If you HAVE seen these releases, and your questions still stand, let me know
and I'll pass your message along to the Product Mgr.

-LauraZ@Banyan.Com          voice: (508) 836-1825   fax: (508) 898-9611
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:55:53 EDT
From:         "Elliott Coates" <coates@UC780.UMD.EDU>
Subject:      RE: sco unix & vines
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>Have you seen the press releases Banyan just put out on the new VINES for SCO
>UNIX?  They were just released 7/27.
>I think they answer most all the questions you asked except the ship date,
>and I don't know that myself yet.

>Would be happy to fax you (and other list members) copies if you're
>interested....  if so, write me back with a fax number...

I haven't seen the release.  My fax number is 202-736-0191.  Thanks a Bunch!

Should be addressed to: Elliott Coates, Rm 11124.

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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:04:00 GMT
From:         Jim Loya <0004602295@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      RE: NIC'S
X-To:         Banyan Networks Discussion List <BANYAN-L@vm1.cc.uakron.edu>

Sources for all NICs from Racal, SMC, Accton, et al:

Image Services, Inc.
Systems Integration Division
85 Emerald Street, Suite 175
Keene, New Hampshire, USA 03431

(800) 827-5478
(603) 352-7371
(603) 357-8935 Fax

MCI Mail: 460-2295

-Jim Loya, General Manager, Systems Integration Division
-Image Services Incorporated
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From:         Ian=Brabham%CC%Monash@BANYAN.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU
Subject:      re: KEEPING TIME.
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I would like to thank Frank Fore at SwRI for providing log samples of what
happens when dialing into a time service bureau.  It looks like the dial
outs do a global set net time and can thus pull back into line servers with
fast clocks.

=======Server 26VS046A doing dial out=================
08:03:25 [512] The Time Service phonenumber is set to: DT xxxx#xxxxxxxxxxxx
08:03:25 [512] The Time Service retry limit is set to: 5
08:03:25 [512] The Time Service schedule is set to: 66660
08:03:25 [512] Enabling Time Service dial out
....
02:34:25 [0] 1 "SS@26VS046A@Servers" 0 Sat Jul 18 02:34:25 1992
02:34:25 [512] Time Service dial out is active

=======Server 16VS168A having it's time pulled back 0:02:32 =============
01:38:07 [0] 1 "SS@16VS168A@Servers" 0 Mon Jul 27 01:38:07 1992
01:38:07 [512] Time set: Net time has been changed
01:35:35 [512] Time set: server = SS@26VS046A@Servers, time = 712218935
========

Ian Brabham                 email: ian@banyan.cc.monash.edu.au
Micro Support Group         phone: +61 3 565 4742
Monash University           fax:   +61 3 565 4746
Melbourne Australia
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From:         Ian=Brabham%CC%Monash@BANYAN.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU
Subject:      re: EXCLUDE in stda doesn't work
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Marcel Hoornweg,

>I'm running a STDA satellite service, with a number of EXCLUDE lines and an
>INCLUDE file.
>The INCLUDE file works perfect, the EXCLUDE lines however don't seem to have
>any effect.

I had a similar problem on a 4.10(5) server.  I made the problem go away
by deleting and recreating the STDA service.  It seemed to have got itself
into a confused state and refused to accept new EXCLUDE data.  A crude but
effective solution.

Don't forget to write your INCLUDE and EXCLUDE data to a disk file before
you delete the service so you can read it into the new service.

Ian Brabham                 email: ian@banyan.cc.monash.edu.au
Micro Support Group         phone: +61 3 565 4742
Monash University           fax:   +61 3 565 4746
Melbourne Australia
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 12:07:13 EDT
From:         John=Valenti%cs%SSC@BANYAN.CL.MSU.EDU
Subject:      re: Moving a File Service

> The problem with that from my point of view is that, being a paranoid
> schizophrenic  :)  , I live in mortal fear of losing my users' data.
> Therefore I insist on being able to restore the files to their new
> service _before_ deleting the old service.

I have to confess to playing dangerous with our user's files ... I
followed the manual's instructions. It worked fine!
(OK, so I did have a second full backup tape.)

Another way to do this, if you're running 5.0, is to use the VCOPY
command. Use the /A /S /E switches to copy an entire volume. I think
this is an approved use for vcopy, at least it worked for me.

-jav     John Valenti    valenti@msu.edu    Michigan State University
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:14:22 -0700
From:         Alan Smith <alans@CORAL.USACE.MIL>
Subject:      Re: EBANYAN ERROR MESSAGE
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              ERROR MESSAGE" (Jul 22, 12:33)

EBANYAN doesn't support the Banyan NDIS drivers. It can only be used for
cards that have 'direct' drivers like 3Com 3c503, etc.


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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 08:39:39 EDT
From:         Laura=Zuromsky%SupportServices%Banyan@MAGNOLIA.BANYAN.COM
Subject:      re: The Banyan Information Gateway
X-To:         BANYAN-L@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU

Andrew:

Your reseller was undoubtedly referring to the "Banyan Information Gateway",
which is a direct mail-link between Banyan and it's Resellers.  Information
and software such as patches (or new drivers) are posted as attachments to
mail messages as easily as sending email within any organization.  Your VAR
probably meant that he was waiting for the drivers to be delivered via this
gateway.  (A few years ago, he might have said he was looking for the Federal
Express delivery for the drivers...)

-Laura Zuromsky  (LauraZ@Banyan.com)
 Info Analyst    (508) 836-1825-voice
 Banyan Support  (508) 898-9611-fax
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:09:42 PDT
From:         Craig Armstrong <craiga@SPOCK.DIS.CCCD.EDU>
Subject:      Re: NTP for VINES
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>
> Turned out Rob Sparre in our shop already had a copy.  One question - is this
> a Version 2 or Version 3 NTP packet decode?
>
The packets it is looking for are version 3....
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> John K. Scoggin, Jr.			Email:   scoggin@udel.edu
> Supervisor, Network Operations			 scoggin@delmarva.com
> Delmarva Power & Light Co.		Voice:	 302-451-5200
> P.O. Box 6066				Fax:	 302-451-5321
> Newark, DE 19714-6066
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Your milage may vary.  Void where prohibited by law (or common sense).
>


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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 09:14:25 EDT
From:         SOHIER_DANNY%CTI%ULAVAL@CAMPUS.ULAVAL.CA
Subject:      re: BAD TAPE?
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A question,

Are your Hdisks EISA?  If yes, there might be a conflict between those and the
SCSI controller, it happened to me once before.  Check it out.


Best of luck,

Danny J. Sohier
Laval University
DSOHIER@CTI.ULAVAL.CA
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 07:23:13 EDT
From:         JZeevi%users%swri03@D26VS046A.CCF.SWRI.EDU
Subject:      CoProcessor

Howdy!

Does anyone know of any statistics on the performance of servers with or
without co-processors? We are currently running without one, but do not have
overly poor performance. However, if one would help greatly, I might be
interested in adding it to our configuration.

Thanks in advance.

josef Zeevi
jzeevi@swri.edu
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:14:09 MET
From:         Renden@BIOS.FRG.EUR.NL
Subject:      Micropolis
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dear VINES addicts,

We use HP Vectra 486/25 computers as Banyan VINES servers ( 4.10(0) / 4.11(5) )
 and we are planning to buy some Xtra harddisk space. One of the offers we had
is a Micropolis 1.2 Gb disk (ESDI), but as far as we know, it's not Banyan
certified.

Does anyone have information about Micropolis disks in HP-VINES computers?

Wijnand Renden
Faculty of Law
Erasmus University Rotterdam
RENDEN@FRG.EUR.NL
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:39:21 -0700
From:         Alan Smith <alans@CORAL.USACE.MIL>
Subject:      SCO Unix - VINES comments
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Related to the recent (7/27/92) announcement of the VINES on UNIX product for
SCO UNIX; Martin Smith, Executive Editor of ABUI Network News, is looking for
comments,interpretation,reactions from current VINES users who might purchase
the Vines products for SCO UNIX.

I guess Martin is pretty much looking for reaction from the VINES community to
the announcement to get into the next issue of ABUI Network News.

Martin would like to get these responses as soon as possible - please contact
him via email at 71047.1233@compuserve.com or by faxing materials to:

Editor, ABUI Network News
c/o Danieli & O'Keefe
fax 508-443-4715.

I can't seem to find his voice telephone number right now - perhaps someone will
chime in with that avenue of response to him.
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 11:17:18 LCL
From:         Stephen LaBelle - MSCD <LABELLES@ZENO.MSCD.EDU>
Subject:      EBANYAN ERROR MESSAGE
X-To:         banyan-l@vm1.cc.uakron.edu

Hello All,

We have been running IBANYAN successfully for some time now, we would now
like to use EBANYAN for our ethernet interfaces.

FYI, The IBANYAN and EBANYAN software products are PCTCP products from FTP
software. We use IBANYAN for our Token Ring users and now want to bring
up our Ethernet users on EBANYAN.

When attempting to load the EBANYAN TSR, I get the following errors:

	  Vines sordaddr() failed
          net configuration failed

We are running VINES 4.11(5) using the NDIS driver, Intel Etherexpress NIC.

We have done the installation according to the manual, more than once. We have
been using IBANYAN for sometime now with no problems...

Your help or advice greatly appreciated.

Please reply directly to me as I do not subscribe to this list!

					Thanks in Advance,

					Steve


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From:         Tom=Greenaway%Toronto%banyan@MAGNOLIA.BANYAN.COM
Subject:      re: Appletalk not Changing
X-To:         BANYAN-L@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU

Try relinking the kernal.  (i.e. Configure/Diagnose Server
				 Add Cards/Change Card Configuration
				 Change a card ( but dont realy make any
				 changes!)
				 SAVE Configuration and exit.

				 This will  tell you to reboot for changes
				 to take effect.

				 Reboot the server

				 Try to go to Phase 2.

				Hope This Helps!!!!
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:03:29 EDT
From:         Daniel=Chen%COMPUTER%UMASS@BANYAN.UMMED.EDU
Subject: Re: NTP for VINES
X-To:         BANYAN-L@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU

From:           Rob Spellman <rob%MOTHER.BATES.EDU@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
>
>>I tried to anonymously FTP ntp100.zip from infoservices1.dis.cccd.edu, but
>>it won't let me login with anonymous ... (I used scoggin@udel.edu as the
>>password, per Internet custom).
>
>The password for anonymous ftp to infoservices1 is no password at all.
>Just hit return when it asks for a password.

I just FTP, but the access to the file is only to LOCAL, so I
couldn't 'get' it with anonymous.

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{  Daniel Chen                                   dchenb@ummed.edu       }
{  Network Programmer                            dchenb@umassmed.bitnet }
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{  University of Massachusetts Medical Center; Worcester, MA 01655      }
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:22:28 CDT
From:         John=Jabusch%ecd%USACERL@AARDVARK.CECER.ARMY.MIL
Subject:      new upload to csus.edu

From:           Greg=Burgess%Dean%Business@banyan.cl.msu.edu

> Well I couldn't sleep last night and wrote another little program....
>
> CLEANLST.EXE  - Cleans StreetTalk lists of names that no longer exist.

Moved to /pub/banyan/utilities.

Thanks, Greg!
-john
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:20:52 EDT
From:         "Elliott Coates" <coates@UC780.UMD.EDU>
Subject: re: CoProcessor
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>To make things go faster, add more memory for file cache, use faster disk
>drives and use higher bandwidth disk controllers and ethernet cards.
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Clear provocation!  16Mb Token Ring Rules!

:-)

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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:55:19 EDT
From:         Bill=Hillner%STAFF%OTC@OTC.PSU.EDU
Subject:      re: EBANYAN ERROR MESSAGE
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X-cc:         labelles%zeno.mscd.edu@psuvm.psu.edu

Steve,

   FYI - We were and still are running IBanyan FTP software migrating from
Proteon ProNet 10 to Cabletron 10 Base T NIC's/ topology.  It is my
understanding that the main difference here is that we are routing all packets
through the server using IBanyan.  Not so with EBanyan.  This works fine in
our environment.  (Simplifies setup too).

/BillH

Bill Hillner
LAN Systems Analyst
Office of Telecommunications
The Pennsylvania State University
Telecommunications Building
University Park, PA  16802-5800

voice (814)865-3171
internet billh@otc.psu.edu
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:58:07 CDT
From:         Tim=Richardson%IM=Comm=Srvc%HQ@BANGATE.COMPAQ.COM
Subject:      re: windows/vines/tcp
X-To:         Banyan-L@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU

> Here is a question for the windows users.
> I would like to run Powerbuilder in windows and have it access the
> Sybase SQL server via tcp/ip.  What is the modification to the
> system.ini file that tells windows to use the ibanyan or ebanyan
> drivers for TCP?  Is there anything else required?

> keith Lally
> programmer/analyst
> brookhaven national lab
> Keith,

The only modifcation that I have in my System.ini is
device=C:\TCP205\VPCTCP.386
under the [386Enh] section.

We use Powerbuilder as our Sybase front end and I believe these are the
only modifications required.  I've configured my PC for the Windows
interface to PC-TCP, (EBanyan), but I don't use Powerbuilder myself and
I'm not sure who actually supplies the driver(s).  I can find this out if
you like.

Good Luck !

******************************************
Tim Richardson
Communication Services
Compaq Computer Europe
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:49:12 -0600
From:         STRASHEA@ZENO.MSC.COLORADO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Upgrading to Vines 5.0 on a Compaq Deskpro/33
X-To:         BANYAN-L@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU

Recently our VAR gave us a little more info about a "Banyan Gateway"
to look for the new native Intel Drivers... Might anyone know what
he's referring to?  I've never heard of such a thing, could this
be csus.csus.edu???  ANY HELP would be greatly appreciated.

Andrew Strasheim
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From: craiga@SPOCK.DIS.CCCD.EDU (Craig Armstrong)
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              92 10:10 am

>
> Is there a way to keep the network time accurate? I am getting very tired
> of having to set the time every day. Server clocks can deviate as much as
> several minutes every 24 hours! We do have a server that is within one
> minute, but that's really not good enough either.

If you have a dedicated link to the internet and a UNIX box that can run
software that will generate NTP packets as per RFC 1305, I have a service
that will receive the packets and set all the servers on the network to
that time. I'm not our UNIX guy, but I beleive his box receives NTP packets
every minute from a time server on internet. He then in turn generates an
NTP packet on our local net.

Seems to work pretty well.....


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