--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DG300001 Date: 12/02/96 From: MALCOLM CAMPBELL Time: 09:48am \/To: ALL (Read 8 times) Subj: how to defeat CTL-C, CRL-BREAK On our network at the office, at login time, I force each workstation to run a virus check of their local hard-drives as part of the login script. Unfortunately, many of the users have found that CTL-C or CTL-BREAK will abort the virus checking, which takes about 30-40 seconds. Is there any easy way to turn off this ability, at least for the duration of the virus check? I've tried BREAK ON|OFF, which doesn't work. Our workstations are running DOS 6.2x, the occasional oldie on DOS 5.00. The server is running Novell 3.12. Many thanks for any suggestions! --- QM v1.30 * Origin: Why_Am_I_here_at_Work? (1:163/307.3) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DG300002 Date: 12/02/96 From: CHARLES TOPINKA Time: 05:00pm \/To: TORE HANSEN (Read 8 times) Subj: NETWORK HELP > That is very interesting, considering that the maximum size > license for > NetWare 3.1x is 250 users, and that there has never been a > version 3.2 > of NetWare. It is true that we only have a 250 user license for NetWare v. 3.12, (I missed the one when I was typing), but we support an extra 50 nodes on our Navy SNAP III system with MRMS interface. The NetWare does only support 250 users, a problem we constantly run into, due to the fact that more people want to get on the lan. We are currently changing to Windows NT v 4.0, due to limitations with NetWare. Sorry for the confusion. Chuck Topinka, CET Spectrum Entertainment Sysop ... Back up my hard drive? I can't find the reverse switch! --- -=TechSupport=- * Origin: -=FuzzyLogic=- BBS, 804.722.9949, 1:271/210 -=TechSuppo (1:271/210) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DG300003 Date: 12/02/96 From: DARRELL BOWMAN Time: 12:14pm \/To: TOM MAHONEY (Read 8 times) Subj: mail system //Just before the photon torpedoes from the Excalibur destroyed //his ship, Tom Mahoney bellowed about mail system: >Tom, what OS are you running under? (I'm guessing Unix, but not sure.) >there are a bunch of mail servers at various sites across the net, so t >sure to be one available. TM> - Tom Mahoney replies: TM>we're using Novell Netware 3.12, with about 60 workstations running dos TM>6.20 and netscape 2.02. Currently we have Mercury(.nlm) loaded in the TM>server and it is not very security tight (ie: allows people to send TM>anonymous email or email with sender userid's that do not exist). And TM>we are looking to Unix for a mail server, but the person who can connect TM>everything with Unix will be leaving for college in spring. Since this TM>is a school, they do not want to pay (or not pay much) for anything. TM>Any suggestions, thanks. Put in a PC, load Linux and a pop3 mail server, run a TCP/IP stack on the workstations and Eudora for a mail client. All the software is free (except if you buy Linux on a CD, you pay for the media, and I'd suggest it) You can even get SCO Unix now for free in an academic environment, call SCO and you can order a CD from them also, it's about $20.00 or $30.00 or some such. Excalibur a.k.a. Tanis Leatherwood a.k.a. Jerle Langthorn a.k.a. The Raven Knight of the Courtyard Knight of the Realm of Ravenwood Watcher and Protector of the Outer Rim * 1st 2.00 #6680 * Due to inflation, all clouds will now be lined with zinc. --- Renegade v5-11 Exp * Origin: Cer'rin BBS - Hickory NC - (704)328-2217 (1:3666/113) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DG300004 Date: 12/02/96 From: DARRELL BOWMAN Time: 12:14pm \/To: TOM MAHONEY (Read 8 times) Subj: mail system //Just before the photon torpedoes from the Excalibur destroyed //his ship, Tom Mahoney bellowed about mail system: >Tom, what OS are you running under? (I'm guessing Unix, but not sure.) >there are a bunch of mail servers at various sites across the net, so t >sure to be one available. TM> - Tom Mahoney replies: TM>we're using Novell Netware 3.12, with about 60 workstations running dos TM>6.20 and netscape 2.02. Currently we have Mercury(.nlm) loaded in the TM>server and it is not very security tight (ie: allows people to send TM>anonymous email or email with sender userid's that do not exist). And TM>we are looking to Unix for a mail server, but the person who can connect TM>everything with Unix will be leaving for college in spring. Since this TM>is a school, they do not want to pay (or not pay much) for anything. TM>Any suggestions, thanks. Put in a PC, load Linux and a pop3 mail server, run a TCP/IP stack on the workstations and Eudora for a mail client. All the software is free (except if you buy Linux on a CD, you pay for the media, and I'd suggest it) You can even get SCO Unix now for free in an academic environment, call SCO and you can order a CD from them also, it's about $20.00 or $30.00 or some such. Excalibur Darrell Bowman bowmandl@smoky.dhr.state.nc.us * 1st 2.00 #6680 * Due to inflation, all clouds will now be lined with zinc. --- Renegade v5-11 Exp * Origin: Cer'rin BBS - Hickory NC - (704)328-2217 (1:3666/113) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DG300005 Date: 12/02/96 From: JAMES NERLINGER Time: 08:05pm \/To: GEORGE FLIGER (Read 8 times) Subj: Re: HP LaserJet 5L & Netw -> Because you don't have to install 6 diskettes worth of monitor and fancy -> bi-directional Print Manager software that just wastes drive space and slows -> down your printing functions. Sounds like a pretty good reason to me. Thanks for the tip. James --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 5 * Origin: Access! Information Services (1:108/155) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DG400000 Date: 12/02/96 From: BRUCE LANE Time: 10:45pm \/To: KANE GUY (Read 8 times) Subj: Re: NCD Monitor/Workstation Kane Guy woke half the neighborhood at 03:12 by yelling at All about NCD Monitor/Workstation... KG> I have recently aquired an NCD badged 15" monitor with a workstation KG> type base which contains 4mb RAM. When switched on it displays the KG> message Looking for Network Not surprising. That's an X-windows terminal, intended to hook straight up to a DEC VAX or similar host system. It's pretty much useless without it. KG> What I would like to do is convert it to a straight 15" monitor, or if KG> forced, connect it to my existing network. Neither is possible that I know of. The monitor uses customized sync rates, and the protocols used to run the thing are proprietary to NCD. At the bare minimum, you would likely need a good-sized minicomputer, running Unix, and custom software from NCD, to make the thing useful. I hope you didn't pay too much for it. ;-) ==Bruce ... Defining filk is like finding the last digit of Pi......... --- Blue Wave/RA v2.21 * Origin: No drones allowed... (1:343/272) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DG400001 Date: 12/03/96 From: GARRY WALKER Time: 12:50am \/To: TORE HANSEN (Read 8 times) Subj: Network Help * On 11-30-96, Tore Hansen said to Charles Topinka: CT> I am one of four lan administrators for a 300 node network using CT> Windows 3.11 and Novell Netware 3.2. TH> That is very interesting, considering that the maximum size license for > NetWare 3.1x is 250 users, and that there has never been a version 3.2 > of NetWare. Hmm... where did you get this? According to my info, the max is 1000. Wild guess, but I suspect the 3.2 is a typo for 3.12... > ... An expert is someone from out of town. I'm from out of town, but I'm no expert -- I'm working on it though. :> -- SRP 2.00 #1380: Old MacDonald had a computer, with EIA I/O... --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Network Dynamics Metro 817.243.7493 (1:393/4) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DG400002 Date: 11/28/96 From: PETER LANE-COLLETT Time: 02:21am \/To: MATTHEW JOHNSON (Read 8 times) Subj: BASIC 2 PC LINK MJ> Do you need the T-pieces and Terminators? You can't just connect a cable MJ> with a plug on each end, when connecting just two computers? Yes, you need the terminators at each end and therefore the T-pieces. --- Squish/386 v1.11 * Origin: JabberWOCky BBS +61 7 3868 1597 (3:640/305) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DG400003 Date: 11/28/96 From: LEWIN EDWARDS Time: 09:25pm \/To: MIKE BILOW (Read 8 times) Subj: APPLETALK TO PC ? LE>> anything about Apple's modern server technologies, I've only LE>> used small Mac workstations, and never for TCP/IP stuff. MB> The MacOS TCP/IP implementation is idiosyncratic at best. It's better than MB> the one in NT, but that's not saying much. I've joined the Certified Apple Engineer program in order to learn about this stuff (OK, OK, the real reason is I want a cool logo to put on my business card and promo material ;-). Not as expensive as a CNE.. but I guess not as useful either. LE>> My bits are being written on Warp 4.0, pending a transition to LE>> Warp Server when it arrives (how long should it take a parcel MB> You are making a mistake here, since Warp Server is currently a reversion MB> to Warp 3 as a base OS. That is a temporary situation following the I realize this. But what is the actual difference between the various versions of IBM TCP/IP? The reason I am writing on Warp 4 is because that's what all my x86 PCs run, not because I'm aware of any new and cool and special features in Warp 4's TCP/IP. My app is very, very, very vanilla in terms of what it does to the network. This is a distributed processing application. We are using TCP/IP networking because it's the doorway to a relatively cheap means of distributing a job all over the Solar System. The information which goes down the line is (a) sync packets which let the various nodes in the system know who is up to what stage of which problem, and keep the databases at all ends synchronized as nearly as they need to be, (b) finished result packets, and (c) control/query packets which originate from workstations and query the entire engine (via a gateway daemon run on the nearest processing node to the requesting workstation, or a machine connected to one of the node by a high-bandwidth link). LE>> probably need to write a book about it. I guess this is the LE>> zenith of that cross-platform standards capability the LE>> intranet guys are always foaming at the mouth about. MB> If you really need this kind of cross-platform capability for a networked MB> application, you ought to take a serious look at writing in Java. I'll take a serious look at it once (a) I have the full sourcecode to the Java runtime libraries that are being used on the platforms I intend to support, (b) I can prevent my applet/application from running on any platform I DON'T intend to support [requiring disassembly to a machine code level to remove this protection], (c) it runs at the speed of native-compiled C code, (d) my source is not readable by a human accessing the applet/application, and of course (e) I have time 8-). Don't get me wrong. I believe x-platform standards like Java are the wave of the future. I am just uncertain that Java itself is the one which will emerge as dominant. And I want to ensure that there is no possibility that a Windows user will be able to make use of the products I release, short of MS writing an OS/2 or Mac emulator, until Windows market share is below 25% of home and business desktop computer installations in any market sector. -- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards [Team OS/2] Tel 0412809805 * http://www.zws.com/ --- MsgedSQ/2 3.35 * Origin: ZWSBBS +61-3-98276881 (V.FC)/+61-3-98276277 (V.34) (3:634/396) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DG400004 Date: 11/29/96 From: SAM MCDANIEL Time: 08:55pm \/To: ALL (Read 8 times) Subj: MEMORY PROBLEMS Hello all, I have setup a new Novell 4.10 2 25 user system. File server Intel P-133 128 mb ram 512 pipline burst cache 2-2.2 gig scsi hds setup to mirror tts is on hot fix off Work stations Intel P-133's 32 meg ram 256 cache pipeline burst 1.2 gig ide hds. Network 3com fast eithernet 100 M wire cat-5 twisted pair rj45 connectors 2-12 port Data Link hubs setup in a 2/star confg's. Each hub has its own card in the server. problem At 64 meg ram the system functions very nicely for weeks. When I install the other 64mb of ram, the systems comes down hard with paging out of bounds errors or similar paging errors, or may not even finish the novell load. This is not consistant. May do it on bootup and volume mount or may run for a few hours or 20 hours before it happens. When I installed the additional 64meg of memory and reboot the system the mem check recognizes and verifys the full 128 meg. Highmem.sys verify's the 128 meg. By adding the line "register memory start address/offset address" command to the autoexec.ncf and rebooting Novell still only reports 64meg. Ive changed chip sets and made sure of matched sets of simms. What am I missing here? Thanks Sam --- FMail 0.94 * Origin: Data Resource BBS Indep., Mo. 816-254-8146 (1:280/112)