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From: rash@access.digex.com (Wayne Rash)
Subject: Adaptec Controller Problem
Summary: Can't get Netware 3.11 to recognize Adaptec
Keywords: SCSI Adaptec disk controller
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 06:37:58 GMT

I have an Adaptec SCSI host controller that has been installed in a Unisys
486/25.  I need to convert this machine to being a Netware 3.11 server,
but ISADISK does not recognize this controller.  I've tried all of the
available ISA settings, but nothing works.  I don't have any docs for
Netware on the controller, and I'm not sure I have the model number, since
it appears to be a Unisys OEM product.  The only setting information for
jumpers is a picture of the default settings, and instruction not to
change them (lotsa help there).  There aren't any drivers for Netware
included with the system disks, and no other instructions.  If worse 
comes to worse, I can canabalize a DCB out of the other server in the
office, but that means that the production server is then down.  I kind of
hate to do that, even though I have a couple of extra drives and wouldn't
have to worry about trashing the production drive.

Mostly I need help installing the driver controller under Netware, so any
help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Wayne Rash
rash@access.digex.com
From: mishra@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: NCSA Telnet & SLIP pkt driver
Date: 16 Nov 92 11:39:33 EST
Organization: Queensland University of Technology

I am trying to run NCSA Telnet over the serial COM ports of PCs. I load the
packet driver of the COM1 port called SLIP8250.COM as follows:

slip8250 0x60 -h 6 4 0x3f8 9600 3000

where 6=driver class
      4=interrupt used by COM1
  9600=baud rate

The error message that i get after running Telnet is

packet driver vector invalid
packet accessse type arror 2
can't access IP handle interface type 1 
Board initialization failed!

Could somebody give me a clue as to what i am doing wrong

Any advice will be very much appreciated.

 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: eoq@vthnw.cvm.msu.edu (Edward Quillen)
Subject: CHARON 4.0 (as an LPD server)
Keywords: charon
Organization: Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Michigan State Univ.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 19:17:27 GMT

We're having a strange problem with Charon (working as an LPD server).
Approximatly 25 printers are using Charon to print from a RS6000 to
printers attached to our Novell Lan.

On all of the printers we have BANNER turned OFF, FF turned ON, and TEXT
using the xlate_list "standard_ff_text" given with CHARON 4.0.

The problem is that BANNERS are being printed randomly on all the printers.
Probably every 1 in 10. I've tried MAX_LPDS at 10,20,30. Is there a
way to have CHARON default to NOBANNER (since I think not all the
tag files are being modified properly). Any suggestions?

Thanks!

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++ ED (Edward Quillen)   (517) 336-1293      +++
+++ Vet Teaching Hosp.    System Admin.       +++
+++ Email: quillen@cps.msu.edu                +++
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: ducati@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (stefano ducati)
Subject: Netware Lite info needed ...
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:35:09 GMT


Hi,

Last week I had been playing for two hours on a Netware Lite 1.0 and I enjoied 
 first of all the 
very simple way  you can install it, secondly you don't need to buy a dedicated server 
and least but not last the very low cost.

I should connect about 10 OLIVETTI and a Macintosh FX and 
I can't imagine what I could do with  a low cost net in comparison to
the bigger 2.20 or 3.11 expecially about reliability and future expansions.

Are there many differences in the newest 1.1?
Is It possible to connect Netware Lite with an existing Macintosh Phone net talk?
Another question : while i was testing the net, i  was able to delete
all the supervisor users. Do you think it is possible ?

					       Bye and many thanks
					       Stefano

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: paul@pubnet.com (Paul Telles)
Subject: SNIPES
Organization: PUBNET Communications Services
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 09:27:11 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.novell
Summary: Was it removed?
Keywords: nw311 snipes

Was SNIPES removed from the 3.1x distribution?
-- 
Paul Telles, PUBNET, Honolulu, HI - paul@pubnet.com - 0004002682@mcimail.com
"UNIX is a simple, coherent system that pushes a few good ideas and models to
the limit." D. Ritchie, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 27, No. 8, August 1984
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: Snipes
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:20:32 GMT

In article <1e8korINNld6@uwm.edu> alanchem@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Alan Scott Olson) writes:
>I took a Novell 3.11 course, and found the game ncsnipes (sp?).  

>I came back and installed Novell...and no snipes?

>Where can I find this program???

Snipes was present in 2.15 and possibly earlier; it was dropped from the 
3.x distributions. If there's a 2.15 server in your network (handy things
for print and mail queues), that's about your only choice.


-- 
Gary Heston    SCI Systems, Inc.  gary@sci34hub.sci.com   site admin
The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
"Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma
radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...
From: mcollins@db (Marty Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: slowwwww NFS NLM response from Sun workstation
Date: 19 Nov 92 21:23:32 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Novell, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

brinich@keinstr.UUCP (Mark Brinich) writes:
: 
: I'm running the NFS 1.2 NLM on my 3.11 server, and am having a problem with
: extremely slow response reading files on a Sun workstation from the NFS volume
: on the Novell file server.  Writing files from the Sun workstation is reasonably
: fast, and both reading and writing from a PC is reasonably fast.  
: Any hints on what I might be doing wrong would be appreciated...Mark Brinich


GET NFS113.ZIP patch. IF already have it reduce rsize on mount command.

: -- 
: Mark Brinich
: voice mail(or maybe the real live thing)216 498-2821
: e-mail   uunet!keinstr!brinich
: Keithley Instruments  28775 Aurora Rd. Cleveland, Ohio 44139-1891

--
	   A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

   Marty Collins	       				U2 
   Product Support                                      Tryin to throw your
   NOVELL, INC.  San Jose, CA.				arms around the world.
   mcollins@novell.com   or
   Marty_Collins@SJF.Novell.COM
   1-800-NETWARE  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.misc,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin
From: emike@sdc.com (E. Mike Durbin)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: PC/NFS vs Netware (and Vines, and ...)
Organization: Systems Development Corporation
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:15:27 GMT

Sorry about this, but the origional artical "SUMMARY: PC/NFS vs Netware (and
Vines, and ...)" expired before I got back from vacation.  Could someone please
email me the summary?  Please??

emike@obs.com   or   emike@sdc.com   or   uunet!uupsi2!obs!emike


E. Mike Durbin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: chrisc@ramrod.lmt.mn.org (Chris Cox)
Subject: 3C505's and >16MB RAM in ISA 3.11 server
Organization: LaserMaster Technologies, Minneapolis, MN  USA
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:46:11 GMT

Can anyone give a definitive yes or no to whether the Novell 3C505.LAN 
driver can reliably work in an ISA file server running NetWare 3.11, when 
there is more than 16MB of RAM present.

Does their driver suffer from the DMA wraparound problem evident in other 
cards which use DMA, such as the Adaptec 154x series of SCSI host adapters?

Chris

   Chris Cox  W0/G4JEC                               chrisc@lmt.mn.org
   Network Administrator
   LaserMaster Technologies                          Tel: (612) 944-6069
   7156 Shady Oak Road                               Fax: (612) 944-5544
   Eden Prairie, MN  55344

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           Internet: chrisc@moron.vware.mn.org
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: ctam@nodisk.webo.dg.com (Henry Tam)
Subject: Need help on IP tunneling
Date: 20 Nov 92 15:57:46
Distribution: comp.sys.novell
Organization: NSDD, Data General Corp.


I have a question on IP tunneling and hope someone here can answer it
for me.  You help will be greatly appreciated.

I have a native NetWare v3.11 server running TCP/IP and the IP
tunneling lan driver.  A PC running LanWorkPlace for DOS v4.01 with
IPTUNNEL.EXE loaded continuously copies files from the server to the
hard disk and vice versa.  The test would fail within 12 hours with
a network error:

	"Network error on YY: Error receiving from network.
	 Abort, Retry?"

Of all the instances that it failed, the PC was issuing either NCP
read or NCP write requests(I looked at the packets using a network
sniffer).  A series of read/write requests were going fine and then
the PC started to issue a read/write request repeatedly even though
the server serviced the request and responded OK to the PC.  It seems
to me that the PC either didn't get the packets or the packets weren't
what the PC expected.  However, the sniffer showed that the packets
were well formed.  This problem can be reproduced pretty consistently.
Everything will work fine if the PC is a regular DOS client(with no
LanWorkPlace and IP tunneling driver) and I use the following test
configuration:

	PC ----- SERVER1 ===== SERVER2

---- a regular DOS network
==== IP tunnel

The PC reads/writes files on SERVER2 repeatedly.

Has anyone encountered a similar problem?  I've tried the
test with NE2000 and 3Com EtherLink II 3C503 on 286's and 386's.  The
batch file that I used in my test is as follows:


map f:=sys:
:loop
ncopy f:\login c:\iptest1
dir c:\iptes1
ncopy c:\iptest1 f:\iptest1
dir f:\iptest1
goto loop



This is how I set up IP tunneling on the server(there's no peer server):

load iptunnel
bind ipx to iptunnel net=80ddf499


This is how I set up the PC:

AUTOEXEC.BAT:

prompt $p$g
set path=c:\;c:\dos;c:\odi;c:\xln\bin40
lsl
ne2000
tcpip
iptunnel
ipxodi
netx
c:\xln\bin40\convert
c:\xln\bin40\telapi
set name=pc-60
set excelan=c:\xln
break on


CONFIG.SYS

files = 30
buffers = 30
shell = c:\command.com /e:1024 /p
lastdrive = e




Thanks!

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From: Andy.Taylor@brunel.ac.uk (Andy J Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Request: Latest version of Menu ?
Date: 16 Nov 92 13:43:34 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK


 HELP!!!  I need to know what the latest version of Novell Menus is.
All replies gratefully received.

Andy


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: t33861d@saha.hut.fi (Arttu Edvard Huhtiniemi)
Subject: Re: Performance of NW4MAC?
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 08:46:32 GMT

In article <4789@wet.UUCP> rick@wet.UUCP (Rick Rutledge) writes:
>You don't indicate how big the server's disk was, so it's hard to say if
>16MB was adequate to support NW4Mac and reasonable disk buffering.  16K is a
>pretty big block size (4x the typical 4k blocks), so might affect buffer
>performance.  

The disk was 200 MB. And available memory for cache buffering 
was 9 MB. It should be enough. Using PC:s to transfer 10 MB the write times
are around 60 seconds to the same disk.

>Which NW4Mac?  20-user, 100-user?  How was the rest of the memory
>configured?  
100-user version. Memory was configured as installation does it.

>What else was running in the server?  You're already going to
>get decreased performance, because you're dealing with a protocol conversion
>between the NCP and the AFP.  Is ATPS (a resource hog) running?  You're also
>dealing with tracking 2 (maybe more) name spaces, and an internal router.

PSERVER, AFP and ATPS were running, with two PRINTER queues and one ATPS queue.
There were no other tasks during the test.
The server utilisation was 0% before the test begun and it jumped to around
20% during the transfer. 

>As my questions above should illustrate, that's not surprising.  You're
>comparing a native environemt to a translated environment.  Bof of your Macs
>had more RAM than your server!
Why does a 486/33 PC with 8 MB of RAM tansfer 10 MB in less than 60 seconds?

>What kind of performance would your Quadra give if you had 200 users banging 
>on it?  
Once again there was only one user using the server.

>You're comparing the proverbial oranges and (real) apples.  I guess my
>question is, "What's your point?"

Some how transfer times from Mac to NW4Mac are slow when very larger files
are used (over 10 MB). This makes Netware servers useless in an environment
where imagedata have to be transfer to the server. Reading isn't a problem.
Only 2 minutes for the 26 MB file. 

I am not counting out a configuration problem. 

- Arttu Huhtiniemi
- Helsinki University of Technology
- Laboratory of Graphic Arts

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: bryan@philips.oz.au (Bryan Ryan)
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 23:17:48 GMT
Organization: Philips Public Telecommunications Systems, Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Problemns with Cheyenne ARCServe on v3.11


We are currently running a 386 server with 16mb of RAM, running v3.11
This machine has a Futitsu 1.1GB SCSI hard drive, and we have attached
an 8500 exabyte (on it's own SCSI card).

The backup software we are running (or attempting to run) is Arcserve
from Cheyenne v4.0.

Every time we do a backup of this volume, with a compare to disk option
the backup fails during the compare. No problems are experienced if the
compare to disk option is not selected.

The Arcserve activity log shows that there was an error reading a file
(differs on each occasion) due to a server error

The NetWare system error log says that there was a error writing to a
directory on the volume (no information as to which directory).

The volume error log never gets written since NetWare dimounts the volume
and then attempts to write to the volume error log, so I can't see any
more information about the problem.

Question 1. Has anybody else seen this fault ?
Question 2. Is it possible to get NetWare to write the volume error log 
	    somewhere other than the root level on the volume which is
	    failing ?

Any responses/help would be greatly appreciated, as I am getting very
_stressed_ about this :-(

Bryan Ryan, VK3TKX
bryan@penguin.pts.philips.oz.au

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: hallbc@netcom.com (Bradshaw C. Hall)
Subject: IPX Atrocities?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:00:09 GMT



I am working on a project for NASA to identify the operational issues
of the IPX/SPX protocol.  NASA wishes to remove IPX, and a number of
other protocols, from their WAN.  This desire stems mainly from the negative
image most network engineers with NASA (and many other large organizations)
have of the IPX protocol.

The following are a sample of the negative  responses I have encountered
to the IPX potocol:

1. The ping-pong effect of the IPX protocol.
2. IPX is half duplex
3. Excessive SAPing of network devices
4. Underscores in server names conflict with X.400 gateways
5. Small packet sizes are inefficient
6. Packet Burst does not have dynamic congestion control for sliding window
7. IPX is difficult to manage as a protocol

Many of these arguments are unfounded.  I am in the process of researching
answers/solutions to these concerns.

If any of you have experienced similar resistance to IPX please let me
know the arguements for and against.  I am NOT looking for bugs in 
NetWare such as phantom servers on very large SLISTs. Just issues.

Novell has offered their assistance with the project and the 
final product will be available to any of those who wish it.


Brad hall

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Rockwell International
Space Systems Division               hallbc@dny.rockwell.com
Los Angeles, CA.                     hallbc@netcom.com

"a thousand thousand slimy things lived on and so did I"
- S. Coleridge
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: dje@japan.Berkeley.EDU (Don Eilenberger)
Subject: Re: Etherlink III (3c509)
Reply-To: dje@japan.Berkeley.EDU (Don Eilenberger)
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 14:50:51 GMT

In article <20NOV199209135429@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov>, dweissman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (WiseGuy) writes:
|> Does anyone have an opinion on how well 3Com's Etherlink III/3c509 ethernet
|> card works in a Novell 3.11 environment.  Our CNE seems to think that the
|> only ethernet card for clients should be SMC's 3016TP because it is Novell
|> 'approved and tested'.  I thought Novell tested most cards out there...
|> and any ODI drivers that happen to come with the card.
|> ===============================================================================
|> Dave Weissman - Corporate WAN/LAN Networking
|> 
|> Allied-Signal Aerospace - BFEC    Internet#1 - dweissman@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov
|> One Bendix Road, Dept. 976        Internet#2 - sysdhw@bfec2.gsfc.nasa.gov
|> Columbia, Maryland 21045-1897     Telenet/SPRINTnet's X.400 -
|> (410) 964-7909                    (C:USA,A:TELEMAIL,P:GSFC,FN:DAVID,SN:WEISSMAN)


WiseGuy..

I've installed several 3C509's in the past few weeks.. and have
had NO real problems... the basic driver 3C509.COM is supplied on
the disk that comes with it, but for those with no experience with
3Com cards.. you've got to write a NET.CFG file that reflects this
card. The ease of setting it up is enhanced by the fact that it is
a jumperless card.. and all memory and interrupt settings can be
modified with the NET.CFG file.

Just my 2 cents worth....


Don Eilenberger (dje@mail.bellcore.com)


PS: I should note.. since 3COM also sells network OS.. the documentation
on using this card with Novell is a bit skimpy (like nonexsistent!)... but
anyone with a bit of experience shouldn't have any real problems.
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Friday, 20 Nov 1992 02:18:16 EST
From: Andrew T. Robinson <ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Tweaking Novell servers

This must be in a FAQ file somewhere, but I'm looking for some guidelines
for tweaking my Novell server.

We have a 486dx33, 16Mb RAM, and a 4x507Mb disk array (2 mirrored to 2,
for a total of 1014Mb usable space).  Drives are SCSI with an Always IN2000
controller.  Machine is ISA bus.  NIC is SMC Elite16 Combo.  NetWare level
is 3.11.

Please note that we use primarily OS/2 workstations, so if there is any
information specific to a mainly OS/2 configuration I'd like to hear it.

Replies sent directly to ANDY@MAINE.EDU would be most appreciated, even
if it's specific information on where to find this information :-)

Andy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: stefan@rwthi3.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Hardt)
Subject: Netware Lite 1.1 Problem
Keywords: Netware Lite
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 20 Nov 92 14:25:40 GMT

I have installed a small Network with NW Lite 1.1. What bothers me now is
that I cant send messages to other workstations from within Win 3.1 (since
Win doesn't know there's a network installed). Second I can't use my
favourite pmail anymore. Is there a solution to the message and/or mail
problem ??

Thank you for any help
Stefan

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: nimrod@jeremy.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Write ODI driver in C
Reply-To: nimrod@jeremy.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:30:19 GMT


Hello,

I'm writing an ODI client driver.

I thought about the possibility to write it in C.

I thought to have Novell defined interface routines in assembler
which will call my C routines.

Does any of you have experience with it?
Any ideas why should'nt it work?

I'll appreciate fointers to such 'wrapper' or 'jacket' routines.

/Nimrod Diamant
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: rfranken@mcs213i.cs.umr.edu (Richard Brett Frankenberger)
Subject: Security Patches - How Secure???     
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:02:32 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla

I hate to be the one to start another security discussion here, but inquiring
minds want to know ... (seriously, I believe Netowrk administrators should
have access to this information) ...
 
Novell recently released patches designed to counteract HACK.EXE.  It appears
that this will prevent HACK.EXE and anything like it from working.
 
It is clear that I will not be able to forge a packet-signature with information
available by asking the server (connection number, IPX address, etc); HOWEVER,
can I forge the packet-signature if I were to montior the wire and
CAPTURE EVERY PACKET from the time the client workstation runs NETX.
 
I'm not talking about coming in after the session is already established.  I'm
talking about capturing EVERY PACKET sent between the workstation and the
server since the beginning to the connection.
 
Would doing so give me sufficient information to forge a packet signature?

What I am looking for here is either:
 
(a) a statement that this CAN BE DONE.  (I would not expect details, as
they could be used by a hacker to gain access, although hacker's will probably
figure this out before too long); or
 
(b) A detailed explanation of why it cannot be done.  There is no danger in
disclosing protocol details if it won't do hacker any good.  A statement from
someone simply saying this CANNOT BE DONE doesn't mean much - I would much
rather have it stand up to the scrutiny of the net.  (Unix and TCP/IP).   
(And novell has applied for a patent, no there should be no trouble with the
disclosing of how it works)
 
Does anyone have any information in this area?
 
      - Brett      (rfranken@cs.umr.edu)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: alan@mailhub.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com (Alan Strassberg)
Subject: LAN Tachometer - Free!
Organization: Lockheed Santa Cruz, CA.
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 15:36:13 GMT


	Brightwork Development is giving away LAN Tachometer free during
	November (normally $99). This is a Windows based network
	monitoring tool that lets you keep an eye on various server
	statistics (active users, I/O performance, space remaining,
	print jobs, etc.).

	Brightwork can be reached at 800-552-9876.

				alan
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alan@mailhub.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com
Lockheed Santa Cruz, California
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell