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Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 12:18:00 CST
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From:         Rac1154 <rac1154.dsc1@PCMAIL.DCCCD.EDU>
Subject:      Filer problem

We've got around 20 servers on our system and only a few of them
do we have the following problem.  When invoking FILER it reports

The system message library file "SYS$MSG.DAT" could not be
opened.
Program Initialization Failure - Execution Terminated.

However, if we go to the drive on which FILER is located it works
okay, presumably because SYS$MSG.DAT is there too.  The drive on
which FILER is located is in the shell search path and the SMODE
is set to 0.  Any ideas why it has this problem?
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Date:         Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:29:37 CST
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From:         "Ken Johnston,
              Network Coordinator" <KNJ794W%SMSVMA.BITNET@SUVM.SYR.EDU>
Subject:      Server Error Novell 2.2

Does anyone have any experience with or know what the following error
message means when trying to access a Novell 2.2 server:

    Network Error:  Out of Dynamic Work Space during GetCurrentDirectory

I have looked in vain for this error message in the manuals.  Since I
cannot access the server, I have no way (that I know of???) to try to
do any diagnostics.  I have tried adding memory to the server (PS/2 80)
with no changes.  I am assuming that I am low on either directories or
disk space.

Thanks in advance......

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Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 1992 08:36:35 -400
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From:         bstrickl@GSVMS2.CC.GASOU.EDU
Subject:      Localtlk Mail Program

I know this isn't novell related but I thougth I would look to the wisdom
of the people in this list serve.

I need some info on an email package that can be used on a localtalk
netowrk.   I don't want something like POPMAIL, EUDORA, etc that uses an
external mail utility (our mail is on our VAX here at GSU) but just
something simple like the mail program used in Novell 2.15 or the like.

Thanks in advance for your help and information.
Billy Strickland
Learning Resources Center
GA Southern University

(912) 68-0864
Internet :: bstrickl@gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu

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Subject: DOS/Mac Printing
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:10:00 GMT
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>From: Larry Sands <ABUSANDS%IDBSU.BITNET@SUVM.SYR.EDU>
>Subject:DOS/Mac Printing
>
>Our school uses Netware 3.11 with DOS and Mac clients.  Our networked HPIIIsi p
>rinters are set to "language switching mode".  Macs expect a printer to be in
>ostScript mode and my understanding is that Macs cannot reset a printer to Post
>Script if the printer is in PCL mode.  Can anyone suggest a full-proof method o
>f switching HPIIIsi printers between PCL and PostScript (and vice versa) that i
>s transparent to the user?  Thanks in advance.

EXTENDED SYSTEMS makes a card for the HPIIISI called "Etherflex".  It allows
the printer to do the switching automatically between PCL and PostScript and we
print from both Novell Netware 3.11 and from Macs and NeXts on the network.
Your HP dealer should be able to get this for you - ours did.  With this card
installed, the IIISI acts as its own printserver under NW 3.11 (you must set it
up via PCONSOLE - not difficult at all).  Our card is a 10BaseT card - I
believe they have other options as well.   (the card costs about $600)
Hope this helps -

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Gustavus Adolphus College       Phone:     (507) 933-7015
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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 10:43:00 GMT
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From:         "DICK VAN FULPEN, HOGESCHOOL UTRECHT" <DFULPEN@HUT.NL>
Subject:      Rprinter problems

Hello,

I'am on this list for about a week now, and I have seen somes answers
and questions about Rprinter already!
But I have a problem myself:
- when I start rprinter with the correct parameters as the name of the
  printserver and the number of the printer, most of the time the PC
  hangs, just after the screenmessage Rprinter.... installed
  When I look at the systemconsole the window of the printer shows
       Connecting

- after a reset of the PC and giving the rprinter command, the message
  printer already in use appears on the PC, while the console still
  displays Connecting

Only a printserver down command will remove the text Connecting, and
sometimes the rprinter command works fine.

After asking arround in our company with over 10 LANS's I didn't get
any fine solution. Most of them say: I have a dedicated server..., but
someone told me to use some older PC's, because it may be a speed
problem.(?)

Who knows what Ihave to do about this, if more details are needed let me
know!

Thanks in advance
Dick van Fulpen
Utrecht Polytechnic
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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 10:56:00 GMT
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From:         stefansk@SUPERBOWL.UND.AC.ZA
Subject:      Re: Password Protection

In article <NOVELL%92102804595384@SUVM.SYR.EDU> you write:
>Date:         Wed, 28 Oct 1992 09:41:00 BST
>From:         TA@CANCER-TRIALS-OFFICE.MRC.AC.UK
>Subject:      Password Protection
>Thanks to everyone who replied to my recent Pegasus Mail question I have
>now sorted out the mail forwarding issue.  Its nice to know that help is
>only an e-mail message away!!!
>
>I have another problem which has arisen as a result of two users having to
>share the same machine (not realy a novell problem but you were all so
>helpful last time).  One user is worried that anything they put on their
>local drive can be viewed and edited by the other user (I realise that it
>would be better to put those files on the network drive but this isn't
>practical for various rather long winded reasons - mainly due to to the
>inadequacies of some in-house software which isn't network aware).  Does
>anyone know of a utility that allows users to password protect indvidual
>directories or to disable a hard disk partition temporarily.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Tim Armitage
>MRC Cancer Trials Office
>TA@UK.AC.MRC.CTO
 i have a frined who has a writen a program  which lets you use the hard
drive with all the security you will ever need. This thing is absolutelly
incredible and i bet there is no one who can crack it. Anyway it is a
comercial package but he is not selling it to expensivelly. I can't remeber
the exact price. If you're interested email to stefansk@ph.und.ac.za and not
the address above.

joe
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Date:         Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:31:28 CST
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From:         wittmann@ENGR.WISC.EDU
Subject:      re: NW Mac and Printers

In article <NOVELL%92110510371029@SUVM.SYR.EDU> you write:
|> I have some questions regarding how NW for Macintosh handles
|> printers, specifically, whether or not the following configurations
|> are possible:
|>
|>     1)  Can a mac user print on a EtherTalked (AppleTalked) printer?
|>         I know this one is yes.
|>
|>     2)  Can a PC user print on a PC Rprinter'd printer?
|>         I know this one is yes too.
|>
|>     3)  Can a mac user print on a PC Rprinter'd printer?

Yes.
|>
|>     4)  Can a PC user print on a Ethertalked (AppleTalked) printer?

Yes.

|>
|> Maybe what I really ask is EXACTLY how does the NW for mac Printer
|> Services works and what they do..  Do they use the netware ques or
|> their own ques?

The queues are Netware queues.  You can 'advertise' any queue with netware
for mac (version 3.01 and above).  You can also service any queue with
a laserwriter by using newtware for mac.  You create a relatively simple
config file that associates queue with advertised printers and/or
associates queues with printers that service the queue.

Art

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From: PFEIFER@EENOVELL2.UTA.EDU (Dennis P. Pfeifer)
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Subject: Re: Mail Message in WINDOWS3.1
Date: 13 Nov 92 15:31:37 GMT
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> Some of our windows3.1 workstaions don't receive the Pmail Message
> in windows.
>
> Is anybody there who has this or a similar problem.
>
try installing NWPOPUP

better yet ... get from netlab2.usu.edu novlib/01/winup6.zip

you may like it.....

Dennis P. Pfeifer

pfeifer@ee.uta.edu or Pfeifer@EENovell2.uta.edu

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Date:         Sat, 7 Nov 1992 17:40:51 EST
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From:         Dave Brookshire <david@UMBC4.UMBC.EDU>
Subject:      Charon 4.0 LPR/LPD Queue Naming

I've been having trouble setting up the latest version of the gateway product.
It logs into our novell server fine, and recognizes the incoming queue.
However, it does not seem to be getting spooled to by our UNIX host.  First
question:  does it matter if the specified queue names are different?  (eg.
eschp on UNIX host, and ecs1hp on Netware host-  I specified them as

        incoming                "ecs1hp"
                name            "ecshp"

)  Second question:  on verision 2.0 of the gateway, it could not accept
numerical characters in the incomming (UNIX) queue names;  does this hold
true for this newer version?

I 'ping'ed the gateway was running, with the name, and it responded.  Also,
I have managed to use the rconsole facility as well.  It just won't spool
a UNIX job to the Netware queue.

Can anyone PLEASE help me?  Thanks.

Dave
--david@umbc7.umbc.edu

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Subject: Re: URGENT - Supervisor account locked
Date: 10 Nov 92 21:46:25 GMT
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>From: Brad Clements <bkc@MURKWORKS.COM>
>Subject:Re: URGENT - Supervisor account locked
>Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1992 22:01:07 EDT
>Message-ID:<9210220201.AA21372@murkworks.com>

>If your server is NW386 with two volumes you can get in by renaming the
>volumes.
>
>Also, we have written an NLM for Netware Solutions magazine which allows you
>to change the supervisor password from the console if you know the file
>server serial number (from your distribution diskettes).
>
>I believe that Netware Solutions magazine will release this program
> (setspass.nlm)
>on CIS sometime. The source code is included too for those who want to see it.
>(It broadcasts a message to all users when the password is changed).
>
>Should this NLM be distributed over the Internet? Comments for yeah or neah?
>
>
>Brad Clements                  bkc@murkworks.com               (315)265-4717
>Consultant, MurkWorks `Suppliers of fine aged NLMs'            (315)268-9812
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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:31:24 -0800
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From:         John Villalovos <villalj@INSTRUCTION.CS.ORST.EDU>
Subject: Re: Silicon Office on Novell - anyone made it work?

In article <MAILQUEUE-101.921110183709.320@rs.rir.utoronto.ca> you write:
>What's the latest version of Novell's 3.11 Pserver?
>hendy
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The latest version I have seen is 1.22r  They released a 1.26 but it had some
problems from what I hear.  I know I had problems with RPRINTERS loosing there
connection the PSERVER.NLM.

Later,
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Certified Netware Engineer
villalj@xanth.cs.orst.edu
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From: donp@novell.com (don provan)
Subject: Re:      Filer problem
Organization: Novell, Inc., San Jose, California
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:26:18 GMT

In article <5057FE2A01324BB0@pcmail.dcccd.edu> Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET> writes:
>We've got around 20 servers on our system and only a few of them
>do we have the following problem.  When invoking FILER it reports
>
>The system message library file "SYS$MSG.DAT" could not be
>opened.
>Program Initialization Failure - Execution Terminated.

This sounds strangely familiar.  I vaguely recall this problem in some
early NetWare v3.x release, but i haven't seen it for a long time.  I
don't suppose the servers you're having trouble with are still running
NetWare v3.10 or something?
						don provan
						donp@novell.com
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Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 1992 12:45:27 MST
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From:         Bruce Holmstead <dude@BONES.ET.BYU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Mac MakeUser

> The "Mac MakeUser" can be resident on a DOS machine but it must
> support the extended directory (folder) names and usernames
> allowed by the Mac.
>
> For example, on our AppleShare file servers, the standard username
> convention is lastname_firstname.  Obviously, this goes beyond
> the 8 character DOS limitation

From what I understand, usernames can be up to 48 characters long either
on the Mac or the PC.  Novell has really concentrated on NetWare utilities
for the PC and have kind of left similar Mac utilities undeveloped, however,
again I believe that it doesn't matter (as far as username) whether you
generate accounts on the mac or on the pc.  The problem I see would come
with home directory locations.  If you use MakeUser for the PC, it will
limit the directory to 8 characters like you say--but, I'm not sure.  I'll
have to try it--maybe someone else out there knows off hand.  If MakeUser
puts the home directory longer than 8 char's in the bindery, you'll be ok
all the way around.

> Does Massuser support these extended names?  All 400 of these
> new users will be Macintosh users.

If you supply your own username that is longer than eight characters,
for example, MassUser will process the usernames no problem, but if you
choose MassUser's full-name option, it will use 7 characters from the
last name and the first initial of the first name to generate it's own
username.  Contact me directly and I'll get you a full working demo and
you can try it, if it works--great, otherwise you have a long road ahead
of you adding those 400 users.

Bruce

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From:         "A.J. Sheehan" <GRG1678@VAX2.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK>
Subject:      Rprinter for PS/2s

Some time back a request was put out on the list for information about a
problem with rprinter running on PS/2s: I replied at that time that I thought
Novell had put out a version of the software for these machines. I could not
then remember where I had seen this and I don't believe anyone else could
recognise it either.

Well, I am happy to say that I have found it: it's on ftp.uni-kl.de in the
pub/pc/novell directory by the name `rprps2.zip'. The readme refers to a
problem with PS/2 models 50, 50z and others losing connections to HP Laserjet
IIIs but warns that the problem may occur with other machines too.

I trust this is of use to the person who requested it.

Tony Sheehan
grg1678@v2.qub.ac.uk

Queen's University, Belfast
Northern Ireland
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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 10:06:41 EST
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From:         NCUT000 <NCUT@SLUMUS.BITNET>
Subject:      Eisa, MCA, IBM, et al.

Just to throw my .02 into the thread:

My situation MAY be somewhat unique (I'm not sure) but we have a very
strong tendancy to buy IBM.  We also have quite a number of non-IBM
machines about the campus.  We regularly review our purchasing
philosophy to make sure our reasoning is still sound.  I came here from
a fairly busy IBM dealership (actually with several outlets, and I
sizeable geographic region).  Here's my perspective on some of this
stuff:

Microchannel (especially the 32 bus mastering stuff) seems to
provide a little better performance, at a slightly higher cost.

I find access to parts, and technical support to be outstanding.  I
happen to know the support structure at IBM, and have a very solid
relationship with the local dealer.  When I call them and ask them to
call IBM dealer support for me, they are more than willing.  Actually I
think the dealer rather enjoys IBM's version of the installing dealer
program too.

We order service/spare parts directly from the IBM Parts center.  No
problems - good turnaround.

There have been noteable exceptions to the "legendary" IBM reliability,
but often I think these get more (not less) attention because they are
IBM.  For example:  The 12" vga color monitor problem - we have bought
hundreds - a FEW have failed, they're also several years old.  The CMI
drive fiasco - is cmi actually out of business now?  If so it's a shame
- the real problem ended up being a T.I. chip on the Western Digital
built FDDD adapter (that's my memory talking - could be questionable),
on the other hand the Boca bay thing is the stuff myths and legends are
made of.

At any rate, enough of this:  IMHO, IBM continues to be a viable, cost
effective, platform that provides excellent price/performance, for much
of our OUR workstation, and server needs.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled network catastrophe,
already in progress...

Thanks,


Nick Cutry                         voice: (315)379-5971
Network Manager                    Bitnet: NCUT@SLUMUS or CUTRY@STLAWU
Computer Services                  Compu$erve: 76424,144 or 73257,2537
St. Lawrence University
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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 05:39:59 -0500
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From:         ROGER L BELL <R.L.BELL@LARC.NASA.GOV>
Subject: Re: NW 3.11 install problem

if you backed up your installation disk without using DISKCOPY command, your
 disk labels are missing. For example, CHKDSK should show disk 1 label to be, I
 believe, DISK_1.
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Subject: Joining apps on nw 3.11
Date: 9 Nov 92 12:51:13 GMT
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Dear netters...

I need some input on the following problem;
We would like to go from a character UI based network to a network
with GUI. Furthermore, we would like to from dbase III to a
serverbased (NLM) RDBMS.
We like to interconnect the following:

Ami-pro 3.0 (word processing)
Excel 4.0 (spread-sheet)
Q+E 2.7 (SQL database interface)
Sybase NLM SQLserver 4.2 (SQL-RDBMS)
X-vision 4.2 (x-terminal emulation under windows)

via:
IPX & odi shell
PC-TCP or Sun-pcnfs

to:
Netware 3.11 server
Sun workstation

Has anyone *ever* worked on such a setup ?? Has anyone evr had
problems with the double network stack on the workstations (with
these 2 packages) ??
Is there anyone out there with some knowledge on the sybase nlm and
q+e ??

Please reply to me directly: henno@zeus.ice.nl

Thanks in advance,

Greetings...

Henno.


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From: ayotte@SABEA-OC.AF.MIL (Lt Ken Ayotte)
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Subject: Re: Netware 3.11 IP Tunneling
Date: 11 Nov 92 04:01:45 GMT
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              11, 92 03:07:44 pm

>
> Hi there,
>
> Could anyone supply me with details of their experiences with IP
> tunneling?
>
> i.e. Is it reliable? Is it fast/slow? Is it easy to set up? Is it
> easy to isolate problems? Is there any degradation in file server
> performance? How much memory does it require? etc.
>
> Anything will be very much appreciated.
>
> Many thanks.
>
>
> Rod.Wilson@barclays.co.uk      "My opinions are my own
> Barclays Bank Plc               and do not reflect those
> England                         of my company".
>
>
We are using it primarily to ship email between our 2 geographically
separated networks.  It was cheap (free) because we already had Internet
gateways for both networks.

As far as problems, the only one I can think of is that the connection
will occasionally drop due to Internet traffic causing too much of a time
lag....this can be a pain for a mail gateway that needs to stay logged
in to the Novell server at all times.

Other than that, it's slow (19.2Kbps, with all it's associated IP/IPX
overhead), so I wouldn't use it to actually run programs off the remote
server, but it is fast enough to do things like check server status an
such.

Ken

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