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From: dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Portable Netware and Mac Clients
Date: 17 Dec 92 01:09:48 GMT
Organization: Novell Inc., San Jose, Califonia

In article <7cT=wVB@engin.umich.edu> jwh@citi.umich.edu writes:
>Does Portable Netware support Macintosh clients?  If so,
>how do you install support for them.  The manuals that
>I have (IBM version of Portable Netware 3.11) do not
>even mention Macintosh.
>
>
Hi,

The features and functionality of a particular version of Portable NetWare
depend on what was included by the writer who "ported" NetWare to their
platform.  You should ask IBM in this case.  My guess is that if they do not
mention "it," they probably do not have support for "it."  But you should really
ask IBM about this...

Think Peace...and Happy Holiday!

Dan Seeman
Novell
Walnut Creek, Ca.
From: donp@novell.com (don provan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Effect of multiple NICs on server performance
Keywords: NICs,server,performance
Date: 15 Dec 92 18:16:29 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc., San Jose, California

In article <BzB2rH.14n@news.cso.uiuc.edu> lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam) writes:
>the server will not route IP!!!!!!!!!!!!

This will come as a very large surprise to the thousands of
NetWare v3.11 servers that are happily routing IP packets.
Do you have some specific problem you'd like to bring up?

> <===I don't know if you can install the MPR nlms to make 3.11 an IP
> router though?

MPR can be installed on NetWare v3.11 servers, although i don't
offhand see any reason to say that the original poster needs
anything other than vanilla NetWare v3.11 TCP/IP support.

						don provan
						donp@novell.com
From: te_s215@ceres (Andy Gulliford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: ENV Var bug in LOGIN ???
Date: 17 Dec 1992 13:36:10 GMT
Organization: Kingston University
NNTP-Posting-Host: ceres.kingston.ac.uk
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bigras@mala.bc.ca writes:
: In article <1992Dec16.132621.1136@mala.bc.ca>, bigras@mala.bc.ca writes:
: > Hi,
: > There appears to be a bug with Novells LOGIN program.
: > If you use the SET command it only works if the 
: > environment variable does not already exist.
: > 
: > If there is an existing variable , say MN=ONE
: > and you try to SET MN=TWO it fails.
: > If there is no pre-existing env variable it works.
: > 
: > Tony Bigras
: > 	BIGRAS@MALA.BC.CA
: > 
: > ok

In login scripts rather than using the SET command you need to use

DOS SET MN="ONE"

-Andy.
From: jmatrow@donald.WichitaKS.NCR.COM (John Matrow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: NWShell NLM via ftp?
Date: 16 Dec 92 19:56:04 GMT
Organization: NCR Corporation, Wichita KS

In article <KEVIN.92Dec9180453@calamityjane.edscom.demon.co.uk> kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey) writes:
>My boss just handed me a copy of the November 1992 edition of Novell's
>"Bullets" magazine, pointed out an article on Novell's NWShell NLM and
>asked me to get hold of it.
>
>Unfortunately the article only mentions where to find it on Compu$erve
>(in Library 1 of the NOVDEV forum).  Hopefully this is mirrored on and
>Internet site - how about ftp.novell.com?

NWSHELL (DOS-like shell) comes with the C for NLMs SDK (compiler).
As such it is not generally available. You get access to NOVDEV libraries
based on what development products you have purchased.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: Steve.Bauer@launchpad.unc.edu (Steve Bauer)
Subject: Lan Workplace for Dos
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 16:49:30 GMT

Hello!  Does Novell Lan Workplace for Dos work with a Bootp?  In the
Documentation it says it works with rarp and I was wondering if it could
be setup using bootp instead.

Steve
sbauer@silver.sdsmt.edu



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From: ctoomey@ccvax.ucd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Desperatley Seeking .. A Good TSR Message Grabber!
Date: 10 Dec 92 00:58:45 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

A simple request really:

Since we're using Pegasus Mail, APC's PowerChute UPS monitoring, McAfee's
NetShield and various other thingies that use NetWare `broadcasts' to inform
users of certain events, I'm looking for the BEST TSR message-grabber out
there.

It's particularly important for us, as a number of graphics-mode _NON_-Windoze
applications are run at our site (from mundane things like Lotus 123 R3.1 with
WYSIWYG to custom production-line quality control monitoring software) and some
messages get lost [& then I get calls asking me why the user got informed of a
brownout when they exited their app., but not notified when commercial power
got well again..]  Also, most painfully of all, there is a large MRP database
system run off said server, sometimes for queries, but sometimes for a large
[`while I'm off for lunch..'] database roll-ups, and people will get a bit
annoyed to find that their machine has `paused' to display a broadcast message.

So, what I want is:

a SMALL TSR to buffer & display such messages intelligently, giving an audible
warning if it cannot display the message [when the user is using a
graphics-mode app.] that will co-exists peacefully with other TSR's such as
McAfee's VSHIELD, Novell's NETBIOS emulator etc. (i.e. a well-written one :-D )

So, can anyone point me in the direction of a suitable utility, preferably
share/freeware, and (dare I ask for it..) available from a FP site.


Ohhh, and a solution to the global recession, a cure for the common cold, a
shiny new red bike from Santa etc. etc.

Cheers,

	- Colm Toomey -

[`Sick Servers Fixed Remotley Using Ancient Eastern Healing Techniques.  Phone
  1-800-QUACK-DOCTOR, & Have Your Credit Card Handy...']
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: Got charon working...thanks!
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:22:46 GMT

In article <1giqctINNcl1@terra.cs.waikato.ac.nz> hamish@terra.cs.waikato.ac.nz (Hamish Marson) writes:
>In article <Dec14.170524.11472@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> millerje@CS.ColoState.EDU (Jeff Miller) writes:

>|  [ ... ] when I was looking for a mail package I called up ccMail
>|and they said a gateway could only be run on a dedicated PC.  I asked them
>|why it couldn't be an NLM and they basically just said "it's impossible". 

>Well. It may be impossible for some people (ie ccMail), but its certainly not 
>impossible to have an SMTP gateway sending mail. Perhaps they meant that the
>ccMail interface isn't available to NLM's?

More likely, releasing such a product would cut down on their revenue. It'd
be pretty hard to sell a NLM for $2500. Selling out to Lotus destroyed the
market for cc:Mail; the prices were steep enough to begin with, but jacking 
the add-on packages to $120/user was insane. It cost them my business. (Prior
to Lotus, it was about $40/user.)

>                                           Hmmm... I don't know how ccMail 
>stores or forwards its mail so I can't comment, but if the file is kept on
>the server (Or any server that the NLM has access to), then it is certainly
>possible.  I may do one myself just to piss them off :)

From my past experience, cc:Mail keeps all the mailboxes stored in one file,
of which I don't know the format. It helps slow down access (along with their
crummy user interface) and reduces security, IMHO.

I'd like to see NLMs (or even standalone gateways) that would interface
to cc:Mail; perhaps one for cc:Mail <--> MHS and another for MHS <--> SMTP.
That would eliminate all the cc:Mail <--> whatever boxes, and the MHS <--> 
SMTP NLM would let any other mail program talk to the real world (since 
most of them already talk to MHS).  :-)


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: Ullrich_Fischer@mindlink.bc.ca (Ullrich Fischer)
Subject: Re: how many ethernet cards can I put in a server?
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 07:41:29 GMT

I've been told, that internal routing puts quite a load on even an EISA 486
33 Mhz server and that I should put only one ethernet card in each server and
delegate the routing to an external ethernet switch.

Currently I've got 4 NICs (two arcnet, two 10baseT) in each server.  It seems
to be working ok, but occasionally, people complain of slow response,
especially on the arcnet side.

Any arguments on this either way?

Thanks in advance.

--
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fundamentalists, He wouldn`t have given us brains.  "What makes a person so
poisonous righteous, that he thinks less of anyone who just disagrees?" -
Moxy Fruvous
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: keith@novell.com (Keith Brown)
Subject: Re: TSU utility for LWP4DOS 4.01
Organization: Novell Inc., San Jose, Califonia
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 06:35:37 GMT

In article <fastedy.5.724394170@ccu.umanitoba.ca> fastedy@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Ed Spencer) writes:
>As I understand the TSU utility that comes with LWP4DOS it is used to 
>translate i/o from serial interface applications to tcpip protocols.

TELAPI.EXE is the actual INT 14h redirector. TSU is the application
that configures the TELAPI TSR on behalf of applications that aren't
hooked explicitely in to its APIs and thus can't configure TSU themselves.

>What I am trying to do is get an older version of procomm (which uses a com 
>port) to access our mainframe using vt100 emulation.

Well, its been a while since I've really used TELAPI/TSU (our own
emulators in LAN WorkPlace v4.1 no longer need TELAPI to be loaded. It's
still there for the third parties though). However, the sequence goes
something like this:

1) Configure Procomm to talk to COM1:, COM2:, COM3: etc... through the BIOS.
   If it goes straight to the UART, TELAPI can't redirect its I/O (TELAPI
   isn't 386 specific).

2) Knock up a batch file so:

   p.bat
   ------------
   rem Load telapi in to memory
   telapi
   rem Open a telnet session to hostname, attaching the session to COM1:
   rem and negotiate a binary mode telnet connection
   tsu -o hostname -a 1 -f BINARY
   rem Do the Procomm thing
   procomm
   rem Blow away the session and TELAPI itself
   telapi -u

Check my TSU command line syntax in the manual. I may have blown it slightly
but you get the idea. Oh, and hostname would normally be %1 so you can
pass it in from the command line etc....

Keith
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: mike@childsoc.demon.co.uk (Michael Bernardi)
Subject: Clones of Novell's MENU program
Distribution: world
Organization: The Children's Society
Reply-To: mike@childsoc.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.18)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:17:56 +0000

I've seen a number of programs which (hopefully) improve on the memory hungry
offering supplied by Novell. BUT I wornder if A) Has anyone done any testing
and comparison of the various programs on offer. B) Written a FAQ discribing
this testing (Novell.Menu.FAQ?) C) Is there any FTP site willing to act as an
archive of ALL these programs so that WE can give them a FAIR evaluation.
(For the Shareware, Freeware or PD ones. Comercial version would "only" be
"reviewable" by someone purchaseing a copy).

It seems to me that the only thing going for a particular option
(particularly NEW ones) is mentioning in this group, but then you only get
one of two options mentioned.

Obviously this area is something that a LOT of people feel strongly about (or
there wouldn't be so many different programs around!)

Questions to be asked :- HOW compatible is this clone. How easy is it to
install. What additional features does it give?
How easy is it to determine Novell Menu Compatibility? and which version?
                Mike
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From: bigras@mala.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: ENV Var bug in LOGIN ???
Date: 16 Dec 92 21:48:44 -0700
Organization: Malaspina College

In article <1992Dec16.132621.1136@mala.bc.ca>, bigras@mala.bc.ca writes:
> Hi,
> There appears to be a bug with Novells LOGIN program.
> If you use the SET command it only works if the 
> environment variable does not already exist.
> 
> If there is an existing variable , say MN=ONE
> and you try to SET MN=TWO it fails.
> If there is no pre-existing env variable it works.
> 
> Tony Bigras
> 	BIGRAS@MALA.BC.CA
> 
> ok

Just a reply to myself as somehow I missed the Subject line.

Tony
ok

>
From: brian@SJF.Novell.COM (Brian Meek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Lan Workplace for DOS & Tektronix
Keywords: LWP Tektronix
Date: 12 Dec 92 03:57:11 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.

In article <SLCarlyl.1.0@uci.edu> SLCarlyl@uci.edu (ASTWIN) writes:
>Subject: Lan Workplace for DOS & Tektronix 
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
>Organization: Bio Sci
>Keywords: LWP Tektronix
>Lines: 7
>Date: 10 Dec 92 00:28:44 GMT
>Anyone know of a way or a product to enable LanWorkplace to do Tektronix 
>emulation.

This is the second time I've seen this question posted in two days, so
I thought I'd reply publicly rather than privately this time.  

The quickest way to get your LAN WorkPlace machine running with Tektronix
emulation is to grab a copy of DOS Kermit from watson.cc.columbia.edu
and run it over TelAPI.  Kermit offers Tektronix 4010 emulation 
apparently with a VGA screen.  The most recent version I've seen even has 
a pre-defined macro for establishing Telnet connections with LAN WorkPlace:

  def telapi run tsu -o \%1 k1,run tsu -a k1 1,set port bios1,connect

With the above line in MSKERMIT.INI, the following batch file (K.BAT)
will connect me to the UNIX host "lobster" by issuing "k lobster":

    @echo off
    telapi -sn1
    kermit telapi %1
    telapi -u

-- brian
___________________________________________________________________________
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
Subject: Re: 3.11, TCP/IP routing w/ subnets
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 11:48:36 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.082115.1536@novell.com> donp@novell.com (don provan) writes:
>immediate implemented the ICMP Port Unreachable message as well as a
>couple of others i'd carelessly left out.  So you can now get ICMP
>Port Unreachable messages by purchasing -- and this is the punch line,
>fellow travelers -- Novell's MultiProtocol Router version 2.0!  (Well,
>and it's been in all versions of TCPIP.Nlm since September or so and
>it will be in all future NetWare releases, but that's not as funny.)

Sounds great! I too would find this useful. Is the new NLM available
via anonymous FTP?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT])
Subject: Re: ODI and dialup, PPP, SLIP
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:40:00 GMT

mike@childsoc.demon.co.uk (Michael Bernardi) writes:

>I've read that LAN Workplace for DOS 4.1 includes support for dialup
>connections via PPP and SLIP. Does anyone know if these drivers will be made
>available to those of us who would like dialup connections BUT do NOT need
>the full blown suite of programs supplied in LW4D.

>I'm particularly interested in using this option with MS-Kermit 3.12.
>                Mike

To extend this question, will there be a PPP driver for NW 3.11 Servers ?
(WITHOUT purchasing the MPR, which seems to contain all new goodies 
added to Netware recently - why don't they rename it to Netware 3.11
extension pack :-)

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Subject: Re: Univel Server vs. 3.11 Server
Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:32:08 GMT

In article <keith.2.0@> keith@ (Keith Brown) writes:
=Niether the UNIXware personal edition nor the application server will be
=equipped with a NetWare for UNIX style NCP server capability (the NCP
=service engines that you will find on NetWare for UNIX ports coming from
=our industry partners will not be in UNIXware per first release). 
=What this means is that "traditional" IPX/NCP based NetWare clients such as 
=DOS, Windows and OS/2 machines will not be able to obtain transparent file
=access to the UNIXware file system although the inverse will be true.
=UNIXware will be able to transparently access NetWare file systems.

Does this mean that an MS-DOS computer connected via Ethernet to a
UNIXWare server will not be able to mount UNIX directory trees as
"network drives"? (Please forgive me if I have the terminology wrong.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: fod@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Frank O'Donnell)
Subject: General-reference CD-ROMs
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:23:17 GMT

At first blush this question may seem more suited to a cdrom
newsgroup than a Novell one, but since the problems we are
encountering are directly related to a network environment I
wanted to see if any other Novell admins had any solutions:

We have a CD-ROM drive on our Netware 3.11 server with SCSI
Express running to allow its use by all users.  Although from
time to time we have specialized CD-ROMs to mount, our staff
has expressed interest in having a general-reference CD-ROM
of some kind left in the drive that the staff could access.
This is a staff of public affairs writers, so they would be
interested in general references (thesaurus, encyclopedia, etc)
rather than something technical.  This is also a DOS-only
office, so Windows products are out.

We first contacted Microsoft about obtaining a DOS version of
Bookshelf and a network license that would cover our 20 users.
At first this was going well but it later got bogged down by
issues related to the licensing and also the fact that
Microsoft apparently is putting its energy into the Windows
version of Bookshelf and may not be putting out a DOS version
this year.

It was then recommended that we consider Toolworks Reference
Library from Software Toolworks in Novato, Calif.  I spoke
with them yesterday, and they said (a) as far as they know
their CD-ROM will not run in a network environment, and (b)
even if we got it to run we would have to pay full retail times
number of users (about $1,500 all told), which is a bit pricey
for us (we would like to keep it to a third of that cost).

Has anyone else had better luck with a general-purpose reference
CD-ROM in a DOS network environment?  We'd like either an
encyclopedia or something with several reference works; a
dictionary alone, for example, would not be that appealing.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Frank
frank@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov
From: mndot@msus1.msus.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Effect of multiple NICs on server performance
Date: 15 Dec 92 10:38:28 -0600
Organization: Minnesota State University System

In article <BzB2rH.14n@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam) writes:
> kent@humu.nosc.mil (Kent K. Kuriyama) writes:
> 
>>1)  I would like to add multiple NICs to our server in order to
>>segment our network and reduce traffic.  I am proposing having 3
>>NICs drive segments connected to various workstations and a fourth
>>NIC to tie the server to a campus backbone.
> 
>>	  +-----------+
>>	  |           |   Campus backbone
>>	  | Server    |------------------------
>>	  |           |
>>	  +-----------+
>>           |   |   |
>>	   |   |   |
>>         Seg  Seg Seg
>>	  1    2   3
> 
>>    Traffic will be predominantly IPX between workstations and
>>server with some IP between segments and segment-to-backbone.  I realize
>>that Novell routes first then serves file requests.
> 
>>    Question:  How much of a load am I imposing on the server by having
>>it support 3 NICs (1 per segment) vice 1 NIC?  Qualitatively speaking:
>>Is this a dumb thing to do?
> 
> How much traffic is on you existing net. segments?  If it is alot then the
> additional nics will help.  But!!!!!!
> 
> the server will not route IP!!!!!!!!!!!!  <===I don't know if you can install
> 					      the MPR nlms to make 3.11 an IP
> 					      router though?  Kinda expensive.
> 
^^^^^^ This is a myth.  The novell server will route ip traffic if it is 
properly configured.  I have a number of locations with multiple nics and 
multiple IP subnets hanging off a novell server.  The key word here is a
properly configured IP network.  RIP must be turned on to perform routing
and you must have the correct subnet mask also.





> a cheaper way would be to do this and install the additional nics into the
> server as needed and add KarlBridge(from OSU) to just let IP protocols pass
> thru onto the network segments(I assume they are ether).  You'd need a couple
> of free ATs and ethernet cards.
> 
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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Univel
Date: 13 Dec 92 17:31:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: mccc.Bz7Kp7.EI4
Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One

In article <RFARR.27.0@NOVELL.COM> RFARR@NOVELL.COM (Rich Farr) writes:
=>In article <ByrB6u.KvM@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (P. J. Holsberg) writes:
=>
=>What Ethernet NIC should I use in the server; what NICs for the PCs?
=>
=Stick to the major brands.  i.e. NE2000, 3Com, WD, Intell (16 bit cards) 
=are all supported
=
=>Does Univel have MS-DOS client software that will let me mount UNIX
=>directories on a client machine? What terminal emulation s/w do they
=>provide so that the users at clients can log in to their accounts on the
=>UNIX machine?
=
=You can't mount the UNIX directories on MS-DOS clients (unless you are using 
=some sort of NFS for DOS software).  UnixWare does provide software for 
=supporting terminal emulation from a DOS client.  The software (NVT) works 
=with any terminal emulation package that uses int 14 (i.e. pcanywhere....
=etc).  It works over IPX/SPX instead of TCP/IP.  Of course, if you prefer, 
=TCP/IP is supported also.

I think you said that UNIXWare does not include a way to mount UNIX
diectories on MS-DOS clients, but that I could purchase non-Novell
software that would be compatible with UNIXware and permit such
mounting, right? Are there any free/shareware packages that permit such
mounting over whatever UNIXWare supports?