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system: You are Dave Hatch, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Chris Stevens about "Re: Adding a second IDE channel".

They wrote:
JH>> But if I did this, would I have to change the IRQ to something other
JH>> 1 I've heard plenty of warnings about not using IRQ 15; can somebody who
JH>> has actually TRIED this please tell me what happens, and why to avoid
JH>> :-)
CS> Netware itself uses int 15 for its own internal software reasons.  That's
CS> about all it says in the manual if I remember correctly.

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assistant: On Feb 07 23:45 97, Chris Stevens of 1:102/1013 wrote:
than
it?!
The major reason for avoiding Int 15 is that it's the garbagecan for missing
interrupts.  If a spike causes an interrupt, and there isn't an actual signal
sitting there to advise who wanted something - the hardware reports Int 15.
Best it NOT be a high speed net link, or worse, a SCSI controller vitally
dependent on that next interrupt being serviced -just right-.
Use Int 15 only in dire emergency - and then only for items that can tolerate
mishandling with only minor consequences.
Regards,
Dave Hatch.
system: You are Dave Hatch, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ben about "10baseT help".

They wrote:
B> *** Quoting Arthur Marsh to Ben dated 02-05-97 ***
>>  B> Why is there a MINIMUM cable lenth?.....  i HAVE to have (If
>>  B> i were to use it) a 8 foot cable or more?
>>
>> Microdyne recommmend a minimum cable length for a 100Base-TX cross-over
>> cable.
B> Hehehehehhe.... Force you to spend more???? :)))

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assistant: On Feb 11 22:43 97, Ben of 1:246/53.2 wrote:
Nope - applied physics.  Speed of light propagation, and minimum settle time
for the interface.
Same for the old 10Base2.  Minimum length of coax - only a meter, since it's
not pushed anywhere near as hard as the new 100 stuff.
Regards,
Dave Hatch.
system: You are Dave Hatch, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Eric Tam about "RPL Problem".

They wrote:
ET>     Today, I try to setup a diskless workstation. I follow all the
ET>     instruction in the NW4.1 online documentation. At the end, I
ET>     reboot the diskless workstation and it pump up this error message.
ET>     RPL-ROM-ERR: 50 The board cannot be found.
ET>     Can someboby help.

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assistant: Yup.   The Prom is trying to tell you that the configuration you've set on
the interface card isn't the one (or range of) configuration it can use.
You need the docs for the Prom, as related to the card.  Odds on, there's a
required configuration.
(OTOH, it -could- be that the card's defective, and the port decoder has
failed.  Doubt it VERY much.  Much more likely just misconfigured.)
Regards,
Dave Hatch.
system: You are Dave Hatch, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Michael Callery about "Upgrade 3.11 to 3.12 - help/comments/?".

They wrote:
MC>     After having my 3.12 upgrade on the shelf for over a year I made the
MC> decision to actually perform the upgrade.  I've heard stories both pro
MC> and con on this and I'm throwing my experience out here for comments
MC> and/or help.
MC>     The server is an ALR Power Pro DX2/50 with 50 megs and a 4 gig
MC> Microspolic SCSI connected to a SCSI card of who's name I cannot
MC> remember.  I have a second 1540 running my tape drive and my NIC is an
MC> Eagle NC3200 ESDI.
MC>     The 3.12 upgrade appeared flawless and my system ran fine for four
MC> days, as long as my user count didn't exceed about 10 or 12 people.
MC> When that happened, communications to the server failed.
MC>     When I say failed, it simply stopped.  NO error messages on the
MC> console, no red leds on my hubs, no failed hubs, nada, nothing, zilch.
MC> I tried looking at a variety of solutions, but ended up re-installing my
MC> 3.11 software back on top of my 3.12 and the system ran fine the entire
MC> day.
MC>     I tend to think is was some updated driver that conflicted, but now
MC> I have to ask the question if its even worth trying to debug all this.
MC>     I am certainly open to any comments and/or suggestions from those of
MC> you that have gone through this, I'd certainly appreciate any/all
MC> comments.

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assistant: On Feb 12 21:21 97, Michael Callery of 1:396/17.37 wrote:
The current word is that it's now pretty stable, and a reasonable way to go.
(WHEN it's patched to the current level - not before.  Get that patch kit and
apply it.  The latest I see in my Novlib inbound is 312ptA.exe - so it's at
least up to that level.)
Sounds a reasonable mix.
Being a lazy man, well...:-)   (BTW - patch level is NOT optional on 3.11.
There are _deadly_ bugs in the unpatched issue.  Either patch level D, or the
current definitive set recommended.  If it's D, _don't_ install it all holus
bolus.)
With the patch kit, you shouldn't have to.  My latest 3.12 installations sit
and run by the month, no problems.  (Mind you, one of the 3.11's with patch
level D judiciously fitted ran for as long as it's been since D first came
out, without reboot or even looking at. :-)
There's a few.
Regards,
Dave Hatch.
system: You are Arthur Marsh, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jeff Smith about "Re: SCSI bus hangs".

They wrote:
JS>         I had a problem with SCSI resets here. It turned out
JS> to be a SCSI HD overheating problem.

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assistant: On Sun 16 Feb at 23:25 Jeff Smith (1:282/1031) wrote to Arthur Marsh:
We have a small, fast, household fan blowing air through where some cover
plates used to be across the Quantum XP34300 HDD. The last SCSI bus reset
happened when Discview was loading some CD-ROM indexes.
system: You are Arthur Marsh, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to David Wrobel about "Re: Scsi Bus Hangs".

They wrote:
DW> My discussion on this issue is the consequences of
DW> making a "Bus Master" - the consequences of which are
DW> different for which BUS it's implimented for.

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assistant: On Sun 16 Feb at 00:02 David Wrobel (1:107/605@FIDONET) wrote to David Roper:
Right, that's one reason I was looking to use SCSI HBA's that used the same
.DSK driver.
system: You are Arthur Marsh, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Dave Hatch about "10baseT help".

They wrote:
>> Microdyne recommmend a minimum cable length for a
>> 100Base-TX cross-over
>> cable.
B> Hehehehehhe.... Force you to spend more???? :)))
DH> Nope - applied physics.  Speed of light propagation, and
DH> minimum settle time for the interface.
DH> Same for the old 10Base2.  Minimum length of coax - only a
DH> meter, since it's not pushed anywhere near as hard as the
DH> new 100 stuff.

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assistant: On Mon 17 Feb at 19:59 Dave Hatch (3:711/808@fidonet) wrote to Ben:
...and people claim that physics is irrelevant.
I had some interesting discussion with our friend Mr Nitzsche about what WAN
connectors to use for MPR - the modulation and clocking scheme used become
useful considerations when running at 2 Mbit/s serial or with long cables.
EIA-530 or G.703 are probably most appropriate for 2 Mbit/s operation,
depending on what is supported by the WAN card and NTU.
system: You are Richard Jary, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Salvador Asturias about "Netware v3.11 server TIME prob".

They wrote:
SA> Anyway, thanks again.  By the way, it's set time.  I tried SET
SA> DATE, and it doesn't do anything.  At least, not for v3.11.

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assistant: Short term memory loss at this end :-)
I'll have to up the refresh rate!
Richard
system: You are Martin Roodenburg, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mike Morais about "Licenses?".

They wrote:
> I've been reading my CNE Study Guide, and I've come across a
> problem.  The book states that included with the Netware package
> is a License disk.  For each server installed, you must provide a
> valid license as provided on the disk, but you can only use a single
> license disk on a single server - you can't use the same license
> disk twice in the same network.  My question is, how do you go about
> installing other licenses when you want to install multiple servers
> on a network (assuming you only have a single License disk)?

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assistant: Hello Mike,
If you only have 1 License disk, you can only use one server on one
network, not more. If you want to experiment, you could setup a
server without license disk (you will get a '1-user' installation)
besides a normally licensed server. Using multiple servers on the
same network requires multiple license, simple as that.
Bye,
Martin.
system: You are Guy Desautels, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Chat on Novell 3.12???".

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assistant: We have Novell 3.12 and Windows 3.1 at our school; I know there is a chat
program for WFWG and Lantastic. The question is whether there is a chat
program/application for Novell 3.12??
Thanks
system: You are Mark Siler, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "3 DOS computers, 1 Printer & a Novell Ne21:06:3502/17/97".

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assistant: I need to know how to share a printer between 3 DOS computers.  They are on
the companies network (Netware 3.12).  What's the best way of doing this?
Please send replies to siler@atlantic.net
Thanks!
system: You are Martin Roodenburg, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mike Morais about "Licenses?".

They wrote:
> MR> Using multiple servers on the same network requires multiple
> MR> license, simple as that.
> That's what I thought.  But how do you go about getting the needed
> License disks - is it determined by the Netware package you buy
> or do you get more licenses through Novell?

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assistant: Hello Mike,
The version of Novell you buy will contain the appropiate license
disk (upgrades are also available, in case you want to install a
newer version, or get lots of extra users).
Bye,
Martin.
system: You are Federico Dios, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Todos about "Remote connection".

They wrote:
-=> Federico Dios <=-

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assistant: I have a Novell 4.11 and I would like to know what do I have to do in order
to access to the net from a remote PC, like in my house throw a modem.
Thanks
system: You are Chris Hammond, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mike Morais about "Licenses?".

They wrote:
>     I've been reading my CNE Study Guide, and I've come across a
>     problem.  The book states that included with the Netware package is
>     a License disk.  For each server installed, you must provide a valid
>     license as provided on the disk, but you can only use a single
>     license disk on a single server - you can't use the same license
>     disk twice in the same network.  My question is, how do you go about
>     installing other licenses when you want to install multiple servers
>     on a network (assuming you only have a single License disk)?  Is
>     there an option to create other License disks with INSTALL.NLM (and
>     if so, how can these be limited)?
>     ... Say "Unique New York" five times fast!
>     ___ Mountain Reader II - #00000081
>
>     --- VFIDO 7.12
>      * Origin: PC Online (1:2424/2406)

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assistant: On 14 Feb 97 02:18pm, Mike Morais wrote to All:
  You can't use the same license disk for multiple servers.  You have to
  but a copy of netware for each server.
see ya
Chris
... "Bother," said Pooh, after he spoke the lords name backwards.
system: You are Chris Hammond, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Wayne Holliman about "I need Netware 4.1 DOS Requester Softwar08:29:4202/16/97".

They wrote:
>     Hello ALL!
>     I am doing a nwc 2.0 install on a 3.12 server and find out the nwc
>     2.0 requires netware 4.1 dos requester software for the remote
>     workstation.  Anyone know where this package is located and the file
>     name of such?

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assistant: On 15 Feb 97 12:08pm, Wayne Holliman wrote to ALL:
   www.support.novell.com, goto the latest patch list and it is near
   the bottom of the list.
see ya
Chris
... "Bother," said Pooh, as DELTREE BBS appeared on his computer.
system: You are Paul Casey, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Frank Ramsey about "Re: Lockups".

They wrote:
>Can you be more specific on what's happening when the lockup occurs?

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assistant: Well, I'm not sure.  I have the BBS Operating, each user logs on to a 386/25
with 2MB ram and a 40MB HD, and Searchlight BBS only uses 2MB of that 40MB as
the data files are located on the server FILES HD.  I've seen a user on and
then then all of a sudden the node drops to DOS, I switch my video Switchbox
to look at the servers console screen, and see that nothing is moving, data
on screen is frozen.  So I turn off the servers power and turn it back on
after a few seconds, then all is well for another day or more.
Snippet from one of the autoexec.bat
SHARE
LH /L:1,18848 lsl
LH /L:1,20448 ge2000
LH /L:1,30768 ipxodi
netx
h:
login bbs-00004
c:
cd\bbs
slbbs
system: You are Ole Slott Jensen, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Client 32 - win95".

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assistant: Hello
Why can't I install Client 32 for win 95 on my IBM TP701.
It returns after a while with the message:
Failed to install componet. You will have to manually install it from the
control panel/Network
Is there a bug in the Client.
Regards
Ole Slott
system: You are Hubert Lelong, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "lanalyser".

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assistant: Hi dear all,
our full lan is going to pass from W 3.10 Wrkgroup to 95 (because of Intranet
programms).
BUT, I, as Lan BIG chief (more or less...) i've got a problem with programms
such as Lanalyser, Arcserve  Those programms start TSR BEFORE windows.
Arcserve seems to have a 95 client, I got it yesterday, gonna try.
But I don't know if Lanalyser has the same programm ? i did not see it on
Compuserve novell's forum.
Any Novell Wizzard can help me ?
Thx a lot
Hubert from Toulouse (France)
system: You are Mike Morais, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Martin Roodenburg about "Licenses?".

They wrote:
MR> Using multiple servers on the same network requires multiple
MR> license, simple as that.

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assistant: That's what I thought.  But how do you go about getting the needed
License disks - is it determined by the Netware package you buy or
do you get more licenses through Novell?
Again, thanks for the info as my CNE Study Guide textbook doesn't
have any info regarding this (Licenses and multiple servers on a
network).
... Cut my pizza in six slices, please; I can't eat eight.
___ Mountain Reader II - #00000081
system: You are Vladimir Stanishevsky, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Luis Manterola about "Netware security".

They wrote:
LM> Fine.. I am the SUPERVISOR, y happen to know most of the passes the
LM> users use.. after all I can change them to what ever I want and I have
LM> full access to everything they would consider personal.. Nobody else
LM> has access to sys$log.err so I would like it to tell me which wrong
LM> password they used.

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assistant: Hello Luis!
14 Feb 97 19:40, Luis Manterola wrote to Vladimir Stanishevsky:
That's not right... If users tell You their passwords, may be they tell it
anybody else... :-(
Which? This is your password! ;-)
Do You think that I'll try to hack your login name with my own password?
Nonsens! For this purpose I'll take the list of most usable passwords. ;-)
Vladimir
system: You are Rich Wonneberger, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mark Krieg about "Auto Logout Utility".

They wrote:
> I've seen that... but doesn't that simply limit the times a user
> can login. I don't think it will force a logout and clear the
> connection...

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assistant: *** Quoting Mark Krieg to Richard Jary dated 02-04-97 ***
Yes it does force them off..  I used it at my last job to make sure I got
clean backup's in the wee hours & the boss's didnt want anyone on the system
on weekends..
The user get a 5 min warning btw..
Rich
I-Net   turtil@ny.frontiercomm.net
... Have you ever wanted to go home and kick the kids???
system: You are Carl Horsley, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jeroen Ruis about "Re: Want to install 3.12".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Jeroen Ruis to Carl Horsley <=-
JR> Tuesday February 04 1997 23:47, Carl Horsley wrote to Jeroen Ruis:
JR>>> It has 4Mb on board.
JR>> I know it's light, but it should work though.
CH> Yes it will,, for your info, I run two servers, 1x25 user and 1x10
CH> user (3.12) hdd's are 425mb. both servers run happy on 4mb and are
CH> kept busy.
JR> And is it still possible to run monitor.nlm or something alike?

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assistant: Hello Jeroen
Asolutely, yes. Also before I moved on to print servers each would
run pserver also.
Regards Carl..
... Cathy Dennis......Waterloo Sunset
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12
system: You are Sergey Tomilin, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Wayne Holliman about "Remote modem".

They wrote:
ST>> If I not mistake, NWConnect 2.0 include a com port
ST>> redirector only for Windows 3.x
WH> You are not mistaken.  I am in the process of trying to setup a win95 ws
WH> with netware connect 2.0 and am having to round up files to make it

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assistant: Hello Wayne!
Saturday February 15 1997 12:04, Wayne Holliman wrote to Sergey Tomilin:
rk.
May you tell in more details about it ? If it's not difficult of course.
With best wishes
               Sergey
system: You are Chris Stevens, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Dave Fricker about "Re: NOT-LOGGED-IN".

They wrote:
DF>  CS> That's what you get when someone who was logged in
DF>  CS> at one point logs out.  The
DF>  CS> connection is still there, that's why its still
DF>  CS> shown in the connections
DF>  CS> section of monitor, just there's no one logged in.
DF>  CS> (ie: they typed logout)
DF>
DF>
DF> I don`t believe that this is the case. I`m running 4.1, the message
DF> NOT-LOGGED-IN is displayed when a connection is made to the server, via a
DF> client pc just booting up and loading the client software. no one has
DF> in or out of the server.

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assistant: logge
You are correct also.  You will ALSO get that message in monitor.nlm when the
above stated happens (After someone types LOGOUT)
Chris
system: You are Chris Stevens, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mike Morais about "Re: Licenses?".

They wrote:
MM> I've been reading my CNE Study Guide, and I've come across a
MM> problem.  The book states that included with the Netware package is
MM> a License disk.  For each server installed, you must provide a valid
MM> license as provided on the disk, but you can only use a single
MM> license disk on a single server - you can't use the same license
MM> disk twice in the same network.  My question is, how do you go about
MM> installing other licenses when you want to install multiple servers
MM> on a network (assuming you only have a single License disk)?  Is
MM> there an option to create other License disks with INSTALL.NLM (and
MM> if so, how can these be limited)?

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assistant: Sorry, only way to do it is to buy another license disk.  If you run the same
license disk on two servers on the same network it's non-stop complaining
rom
Netware.
system: You are Chris Stevens, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Novell message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bob Morton about "Re: Netware server".

They wrote:
BM> Whew!  A few at a time please!  First, it is not apparent to me how
BM> most of your questions would relate to the problem  (which is not a
BM> problem at the moment because we have an automated PURGE /ALL running
BM> every night).
BM> I would never recommend a new server in such a case (since we have
BM> implemented a workaround procedure that prevents the problem) until I
BM> understood the problem, knew that it was not correctable on the
BM> existing server, and that a new server was the only way to solve it.

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assistant: Just trying to get a feel for your system ...
Was simply recommending this as an easy way to go about doing a reinstall.
When you've tried everything, its time for a reinstall.  Sometimes there is
o
explainable reason for these problems.  Most of the time, when you've tried
everything, except reinstalling, that's the last thing that usually works.
And sometimes its the easiest way of solving the problem.  Who the hell cares
WHY this is happening as long as it gets fixed, and as long as it doesn't
eep
happening.  This seems like a problem that you've spent some time on and
haven't figured out.  Easiest thing to do next is to make a full backup,
reinstall netware, and restore.  Depending on the size of your backup and if
you know what you're doing ... it could take you under a couple hours.  How
long has the problem been going on for?
Anyways, my opinion, not everyone thinks like me :)