--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DAA00002 Date: 06/05/96 From: JEFF DUNLOP Time: 07:07am \/To: MARK WRIGHT (Read 8 times) Subj: Remote access basics MW> Also you might check out Citrix's new products Citrix allows multiple sessions on the host? Also, Notes would require rewriting the application, correct? Jeff --- GoldED/2 2.42.G0615 * Origin: DB/Soft Online - Sacramento, CA (916)927-2349 (1:203/16) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DAA00003 Date: 06/03/96 From: MIKE DE.PETRIS Time: 02:30pm \/To: KURT WEISKE (Read 8 times) Subj: Re: w95 direct ppp connection In uno strano messaggio del 27 May 96 Kurt Weiske (1:161/418) scrisse al povero Mike De.Petris: MDP>> connections via serial or parallel port. I remember I was able to MDP>> do this with Trumpet Winsock, how should I do it in W95 ?? KW> KW> Windows doesn't install it by default, but there is generic PPP/SLIP KW> support on the CD. If you go into control panels->add remove programs- >> Windows setup, there's a way to add it in. KW> KW> Works over my SLIP/PPP link to my ISP, and should work fine for a KW> dedicated link - just set your dialing string to ato or something like KW> that. The problem is I want the PC to be a server for ppp connection from another local computer with direct serial connection, they told me thi can be done with PLUS, any hint ?? Ciao, ** *Mike* ** www.interware.it/users/mike/ mike@interware.it -- Lines join in faint discord while the stormwatch brews... --- JetMail 0.99beta21 * Origin: Atarian ST - TS! [+39-40-768412] (FidoNet 2:333/608) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DAB00000 Date: 06/05/96 From: JASON KLOMPS Time: 06:50pm \/To: RICHARD SIDDERS (Read 8 times) Subj: My New Network? Cost is high but the performance is also better the the microsoft. Your looking at about a $ 700 product. --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: My Blue Heaven BBS (520)750-0716 (1:300/704) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DAB00001 Date: 06/03/96 From: BRUCE BOWMAN Time: 10:23pm \/To: JASON LAVOIE (Read 8 times) Subj: Re: Comm programs and virtual modems In a message to Bruce Bowman <05-31-96 00:42> Jason Lavoie wrote: JL> Terminate has doorway mode and fossil support, I have used it over my JL> network and it seems to work fine. I have to admit, with a little tinkering and using it with RLFOSSIL, it seems to be doing a *great* job. I like the way it automatically goes into DOORWAY mode. The new Telix (3.51), on the other hand, still didn't work even though it claims to support a fossil now. I may play with it some more because I have yet to figure out the following: 1) How do I turn off the status line and put it into a REAL 25-line mode? When it goes into DOORWAY mode the 25th line goes blank, but the program still doesn't write any text there...which seems rather pointless. 2) Does it support different config files passed on the command line (so I can use it for normal, modem communications in addition to the "fake" fossil)? 3) Does C-Kermit have a similar DOORWAY mode? If so, I don't need to be registering another program; but so far it doesn't appear that it does. $60 for a communications program is pretty outrageous. The shareware beg stuff is very annoying. I have to admit that the new Telix owners have made it just about impossible to exit the program, too (hit this key, wait 10 seconds, hit another key, wait again...). A sign of the times, I guess. No one is registering my doors, either. Later, Bruce --- QuickBBS 2.80 Ovr (Zeta-1) * Origin: ** The H.O.M.E. BBS (317)539-6579 ** (1:231/710) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DAB00002 Date: 06/06/96 From: MIKE BILOW Time: 10:58am \/To: JOE PICHE (Read 8 times) Subj: The not so exciting adventures of PCIP Joe Piche wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: MB> PCIP_PKT.ZIP 373K 1-08-90 CMU PCIP TCP/IP for MB> use with Crynwr drivers JP> I got that one. That one was missing the netdev.sys file. If JP> this is the one your using, how? I'm not actually using PCIP and have not used it in years. Personally, I am running OS/2 Warp Connect, which comes with a good, native TCP/IP stack in the box. However, if you want the full PCIP package for DOS, it is posted for FTP at HSDNDEV.HARVARD.EDU. I realized when I read the docs in the PCIP_PKT.ZIP file that the FTP site mentioned was out of date, but I recognized the ancient address and knew the new name. I can see that most people would not! I'll drop them a note and suggest that they set up a CNAME alias for the old name, since it is circulating in the old docs so widely. Anyway, the modern site is: ftp://hsdndev.harvard.edu/pub/pcip Source and docs are there, but in tar.Z form. You can find netdev.sys in: ftp://hsdndev.harvard.edu/pub/pcip/bin/general I made up a distribution package from this FTP site, although I translated he archives into ZIP format instead of tar.Z for convenience under DOS. You can get this package by FReq (1:323/107) or download (+1 401 944 8498) as file PCIP_ALL.ZIP. It is about 2.7 MB with all the source and docs. MB> You are trying to run things like PCIP on OS/2?! Don't do that. MB> Upgrade to OS/2 Warp Connect: you will get a full MB> TCP/IP stack (although NFS is an extra cost option) MB> and the OS/2 Peer which interoperates with a JP> No.. I've got TCPIP v2 for OS/2 which handles everything. Be sure and apply all of the services for TCP/IP v2.0 if you run it on Warp, especially UN64092. JP> I'd like to have the other machines run tcpip so I can have JP> an OS/2 native network (instead of only a dos session) An OS/2 native network is not so bad. If you had OS/2 Warp Connect, you could set up OS/2 Peer and run the free Microsoft Client for DOS on the DOS machines. I do agree that TCP/IP is better all around if you are willing to take the hit for the more complicated administration. JP> Thanx for your help so far... (This lack of manuals or JP> directions thing is a real drag). I can see that PCIP is not quite the hot stuff it was in the late 1980s, but it should not require a scavenger hunt to find all the pieces. -- Mike --- * Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 V.34/V.FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DAB00003 Date: 06/06/96 From: MIKE BILOW Time: 12:20pm \/To: KURT WEISKE (Read 9 times) Subj: 2 Network Cards & IPX Kurt Weiske wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: MB> ROUTER.EXE has major limitations. It lacks several important MB> features that are essential to real routing, and which would be MB> supported by an internal IPX router. One could even make an MB> argument that it is deliberately crippled. KW> Besides the fact that it only routes IPX and acts more like KW> a bridge, what other problems does it have? Saying that a router that acts like a bridge seems enough of a criticism! KW> It's worked like a charm in the past, in Netware-only KW> environments. Nowadays, in a modern, multi-protocol KW> environment, it's of dubious use. It can cause serious grief in multiprotocol environments, especially where different (non-IPX) protocol IDs are in use with 802.2 frames. For example, in a situation where you have APPC in use for mainframe connectivity, your IPX routing will stop. KW> I used router.exe to isolate an Arcnet segment with a 2.15 KW> SFT server that was crashing a 3.11 token ring machine used KW> as a server and an internal router. The 2.15 server went KW> away, the data was transferred to the 3.11 server, and then KW> all hell broke loose - the arcnet segment experience a KW> packet storm, utilization would peg at 99%, requiring a KW> restart. KW> We later found out that the Arcnet segment was cabled with KW> RG58, 59, and 62 cabling, with a mixture of incorrect KW> drivers. Although it worked FINE for years under 2.15. KW> Kooky. Well, 2.15 sent packets a lot more slowly. The segments were probably ringing, and this was harmless until packet burst got turned on. -- Mike --- * Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 V.34/V.FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DAB00004 Date: 06/06/96 From: WENDELL KENNEY Time: 11:18am \/To: JEREMY LAINE (Read 8 times) Subj: HP850C and LAN printing JL>Hello! JL>I am the owner of a HP850C printer which I use on a Pentium 120 under Window JL>95. I also have a 10Mbit/s LAN JL>(NE2000 clones) connecting me to a 386DX40. The printer works fine on the JL>Pentium and the LAN is working very JL>well for file sharing (I regularly transfer files over 10mb large), however, JL>printer sharing does not work JL>between the computers. I get a transfer rate of about 50 bytes (not kilobyte JL>per second! I am currently Per HP Tech support the new 600 and 800 series printers are not LAN compatable, unlike the older 500 hundred series. sorry. OLX 2.1 TD RainTree BBS-Home of Spitfire in Richmond-804-740-2413 * LAKOTA v1.5 --- FreeMail 1.10 alpha-3 * Origin: RainTree BBS - 804-741-1208 - 300-28.8 (1:264/323) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DAB00005 Date: 06/05/96 From: CHRIS MADDOCK Time: 06:56am \/To: JIM GUNDEL (Read 8 times) Subj: Request for help On Jun 02 18:50 96, Jim Gundel of 1:110/69 wrote: JG> I am having a problem installing Lantastic 6.0 on my Pentium computer. The JG> Computer I am have a problem with, is the third node of a small network. JG> The other two nodes have been running Lantastic successfully. The major JG> difference between the machines is that this matching has a Adaptec 2940 JG> PCI W/UW SCSI controller and PCI video card. JG> The problem I have is when Install "REDIR.EXE" with the proper flags, the JG> Machine Locksup with no error messages. I have a Artisoft AE-2 Network JG> Card Sounds like a memory problem. Shared memory perhaps ?? JG> AEX and AILANBIO load with out errors. I have all the updated Lantastic JG> files. I have tried different IRQs. I have Changed Iobase memory. I JG> have tried using DMA channels. I have tried using just DOS rather than Win JG> 95. I have reinstalled the Control Dir. JG> If I switch the W-8 Jumper to the B setting (for non standard PC buses), JG> all the Network drivers load without error, But I cant get it to pass the JG> Lancheck test. The other two computer work fine and I have switch position JG> on the network so I know it not a cabling problem. This network card was JG> in another computer and it worked fine there. Sounds more and more like a shared memory problem. Does the card have shared memory ?? I am unfamiliar with the Lantastic cards but very familiar with Lan software. JG> Right Now Im out of Ideas, any help would be appreciated. Okay Jim, heres a few things to try; Boot windows to a DOS prompt. Rename CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT if you have to and reboot back to DOS. Run STARTNET.BAT If it runs, then shared memory is the problem. EMM386 or the equivalent will not be loaded (it doesn't here), and the memory between 640K and 1M will not be re-allocated to RAM. The next step, assuming that worked, is to find and exclude the shared memory in Windows. Obviously, Windows can't find it and in all probability isn't even looking. Run up Windows95 in "Safe Mode". Run "Install new Hardware" from the System folder. Ensure it's allocates the correct shared memory addresses. I'm not sure, but even that might be difficult. From memory, it won't run the program because it is in Safe Mode. Hmmmm. In that case (again ), run the Network program in the System folder and re-install the network adapter to reflect the true values. Reboot and it may work. If it doesn't work, I'm out of suggestions. :-( Regards, Chris Maddock chrism@softtech.brisnet.org.au --- MsgedSQB 3.30.02 * Origin: Diagnostic CBBS - BN QL AU - (3:640/302) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DAB00006 Date: 06/06/96 From: JASON LAVOIE Time: 07:12pm \/To: BRUCE LANE (Read 8 times) Subj: Re: nwlite errors BL> You just touched on one of the biggest reasons I dumped NetWare Lite. BL> Its 'fault tolerance' is a joke. BL> BL> I don't know of any fixes, but LANtastic is a lot more robust. You BL> might want to give it a try. hmm, sounds good.. how much is lantastic, and what kind of trial packages do they offer? Jason Lavoie --- Renegade v5-11 Exp * Origin: Cranial Disturbance (613)723-9841 (1:163/572) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DAB00007 Date: 06/05/96 From: JASON LAVOIE Time: 03:14pm \/To: BRUCE BOWMAN (Read 8 times) Subj: Re: Comm programs and virtual modems BB> Before I get too far with this, what did you use as a stream/ip packet BB> converter? I downloaded Terminate 4.00 yesterday. I'm not quite sure what you mean by stream/ip packet driver, but I use terminate in fossil mode with stomper to use the modem across the network, then when I use the modem I can still use doorway wherever I log into (whether it be my own BBS on another computer or someone else's BBS) I don't have Terminate 4.00 yet though. let me know if this clarifies anything. Jason Lavoie --- Renegade v5-11 Exp * Origin: Cranial Disturbance (613)723-9841 (1:163/572)