--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 207 OS2 LAN Ref: EBC00000 Date: 07/02/97 From: ANDREW SEEGER Time: 02:08am \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Printing - 100% CPU Greetings All! Just a little hiccup i have here... Currently i have OS/2 Warp 4.0 set up with a dot matrix printer plugged in. The other machine on the lan is running Win95. The problem is, when i print from the OS/2 machine or send a job across from the Win95 machine, the CPU usage goes to 100% on the OS/2 machine. The setup is peer-peer and i have looked at as many printer options as i ould find on the os/2 setup, to no avail, can someone help me out here as how i an lower cpu usage when the job is printing... Regards, Andrew. --- FMail/386 1.22 * Origin: Enterprise, Langwarrin, Vic, Aust, +61-3-9776-7089 (3:632/158) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 207 OS2 LAN Ref: EBC00001 Date: 06/23/97 From: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD Time: 10:09pm \/To: COLONEL CLINE (Read 1 times) Subj: NT Network CC> It "sees" the CC> windows machines/servers and will allow mapping to their FAT drives, CC> but when I try to read these drives it locks up Merlin and I have to CC> cold boot. There was a bug in the _beta_ release of Windows NT 4 that caused this behaviour. It was a problem in Windows NT where it was simply not responding to certain SMB requests. This was fixed for the release version (or, at least, the bug that I discovered could not be reproduced on the release version -- which isn't _quite_ the same thing (-:). JdeBP --- FleetStreet 1.19 NR * Origin: JdeBP's point, using Squish (2:440/4.3) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 207 OS2 LAN Ref: EBC00002 Date: 06/30/97 From: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD Time: 09:31pm \/To: BERT SAINZ (Read 1 times) Subj: TCP/IP & Netscape BS> The problem is that the person who setup the web server is not BS> familiar with OS/2 at all, being a MS person. There seems to be a bit BS> of terminology difference on how to set this up. Which, to me, speaks volumes for the competence of the "MS person", since the terminology for that sort of thing (TCP/IP, DNS, hostname, ping, and so forth) is pretty much standard, and predates both OS/2 and Windows. BS> I am able to ping the server and have obtained an IP address for my BS> workstation. When I start Netscape, it complains that it cannot find BS> the server. I think it is just a matter of pluggin in the right IP BS> addresses and perhaps some names in the right places in the TCP/IP BS> configuration. You didn't say whether you were having trouble getting Netscape to run at all, or whether you were having "advanced" problems, such as with setting up an HTTP proxy server. Your post was ambiguous and could be read either way. I'll assume that you are learning to walk before learning to run, and are simply trying to bring up a web page from an HTTP server in your local domain. My OS/2 Warp 4.0 machine at work was very simple to configure to use our company LAN and thereby obtain access to the World Wide Web. The bare minimum you require is (1) an IP address for the machine; (2) a hostname and your local domain name; (3) the IP address of your local domain name server, so that you can perform hostname<->IP translations for other machines; and (4) a minimum amount of knowledge about your local LAN so that you can set up the routing correctly (such as routing all off-site IP packets to your LAN/WAN gateway). All of the above can pretty much be plugged into ones TCP/IP configuration notebooks in about ten minutes. Are you able to ping the server by name, or by IP address ? If only the latter, then you almost certainly have not configured OS/2 Warp with the information about your local DNS server. This would explain why Netscape is complaining (and you didn't give the exact text of the error message, so this is only an educated guess). Netscape is looking up your host _by name_ using the DNS, to obtain its IP address, and the DNS lookup is failing (since you haven't told OS/2 about any DNS servers that it can query, the best that it can do is look in %ETC%\HOSTS, and if the name isn't there, give up). JdeBP --- FleetStreet 1.19 NR * Origin: JdeBP's point, using Squish (2:440/4.3) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 207 OS2 LAN Ref: EBC00003 Date: 07/03/97 From: COLONEL CLINE Time: 09:37am \/To: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD (Read 1 times) Subj: NT Network -> CC> windows machines/servers and will allow mapping to their FAT -> drives, CC> but when I try to read these drives it locks up Merlin -> and I have to CC> cold boot. -> There was a bug in the _beta_ release of Windows NT 4 that caused The problem turned out to be a bad oem driver for a cheap ne2000 compatible NIC. I found a NE2000WC driver for warp connect and everything works fine now except Merlin will not read network cd-roms. See's the drives but returns an unknown error contact the author error. Any ideas?? --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 100 * Origin: BBSWORLD * TELNET bbs.bbsworld.com (1:170/309) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 207 OS2 LAN Ref: EBC00004 Date: 07/04/97 From: JOSEPH CARTER Time: 06:20pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: OS/2 Peer Setting up OS/2 Peer with NetBIOS is these days easy now that I know how it's done. However, now I am thinking of making a change or three. I want to change to TCP/IP if possible. This would make life LOTS easier, but the problem would be then NFS. I have seen NFS for OS/2 and it was probably even shareware or freeware, but not all the machines on the LAN are mine. One of them is Win95 and it needs to share a drive too.. Also, I have a 386 to add to the mess now. It will have OpenDOS in a few days. OpenDOS has Personal NetWare, which includes a server for the same, but much of the info I have found on it is mixed up and jumbled because so much of it is out of date mixed among what isn't out of date. ANY suggestions, besides tearing my hair out? -- Rev. Joseph Carter Renegade BBS FAQ Author --- Renegade v5-11 Exp * Origin: Kaat's Keep / Salem, OR USA / 503-375-0567 (1:3406/7) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 207 OS2 LAN Ref: EBC00005 Date: 07/04/97 From: SOEREN HEDEMAND Time: 05:32pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Merlin Hello everyone! I'm having a few difficulties setting up a Warp 4 machine in a Windows/Netware environment. The first problem is getting OS/2 peer to bind to NetBIOS over TCP/IP, but it seams to work now. I still can't connect to all the Windows machines though. It seems, that the machines I can see are those running NetBIOS over IPX, which I've also installed. Are there any special gotchas, that I should be aware of? How does WinS translate to Warp? The second problem is, that when I open the "File and Print Client Resource Browser" window, only my own machine shows up. I can do a NET USE from a command prompt, but I can't connct from the GUI. What to do? Bye, Soeren! --- Sir Vival * Origin: Jesus, Protect me from your followers! (2:235/306.3) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 207 OS2 LAN Ref: EBC00006 Date: 07/01/97 From: ERWIN HOGEWEG Time: 06:09pm \/To: BART VAN RILLAER (Read 1 times) Subj: Peer without PM Bart, Replying to a message of Bart Van Rillaer to Soeren Hedemand: [Tshell] BVR> Got it from the internet. The latest version is dated from '96. It's BVR> also on some local bbs here... What's your current problem with BVR> Tshell? Did you configure the network stuff within the WPS. BVR> Everything has to work correct in WPS. After that you can change to BVR> Tshell... Sorry for being off-topic but is your TSHELL really a '96 version? The latest version I can find (even on the IBM EWS site) is OCT 95 and this one crashes, as soon as it is loaded, on all my systems that have FP26 installed... Bye, Erwin Hogeweg fidonet : 2:500/120.6046 OS2NET : 81:431/520.6046 e-mail : e.hogeweg@dosgg.nl --- * Origin: Highway Express/2 (2:500/120.6046) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 207 OS2 LAN Ref: EBC00007 Date: 07/05/97 From: JOSEPH CARTER Time: 06:05pm \/To: SOEREN HEDEMAND (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: Merlin SH> The first problem is getting OS/2 peer to bind to NetBIOS over TCP/IP, but SH> seams to work now. I still can't connect to all the Windows machines though SH> seems, that the machines I can see are those running NetBIOS over IPX, whic SH> I've also installed. Are there any special gotchas, that I should be aware SH> How does WinS translate to Warp? What I was told while digging for this last night: TCP/IP alone in WIndoze 95 is TCP/IP with NetBEUI.. Now how to do it peer, I don't know. Windoze complains about DHCP not responding. -- Rev. Joseph Carter Renegade BBS FAQ Author --- Renegade v5-11 Exp * Origin: Kaat's Keep / Salem, OR USA / 503-375-0567 (1:3406/7) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 207 OS2 LAN Ref: EBC00008 Date: 07/05/97 From: MODERATOR Time: 07:26am \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: OS2LAN Conference Rules OS2LAN Conference Rules: ------------------------ 1) The OS2LAN conference deals with local area and wide area (LANs and WANs) network systems that involve the use of IBM's OS/2 operating system (its current version as well as predecessors). This includes the following: - LAN/WAN systems that have file servers based on OS/2 - LAN/WAN systems that support OS/2 based requestors (including DOS VDMs and WIN-OS2) 2) Allowed topics include those in 1) above, as well as hardware, software related items specific to the same. Announcements of software and hardware products are allowed if it is likely that such announcements will benefit the readers of the OS2LAN conference as a whole and not only for the good of the manufacturer or distributor of such products. Prices may be stated for the purpose of getting an idea of which environment (single user, small business, corporation, etc) the product is intended to be used in. Generic for-sale messages are not permitted - if you want to sell something, use an appropriate conference or netmail. 2A) (Added Jan 29/94) Since there are no backbone OS/2 TCP/IP or OS/2 Internet echoes, I will allow discussion on those topics since they do concern WANs. 2B) (Added Sept 4/95) The OS2INET echomail conference will soon be on the backbone. In view of this, I will be changing the conference rules slightly and will be as follows (subject to further changes depending on the reaction of the users of the OS2LAN conference): - subjects concerning OS/2 workstations and connecting them to Internet through a LAN network topology (ie ethernet cable, routers, TCP/IP, dial-up sessions on an OS/2 based LAN server, etc) are allowed. This includes providing Internet access to multiple LAN/WAN users. - subjects concerning the use of software by single machines which are not connected to a LAN to communicate with the Internet (ie Web Browser, FTP, Ultimail, and other similiar packages) are not allowed. This includes single home/office users of the OS/2 IAK (Internet Access Kit) using dial-up modems to access an Internet Service Provider. These new rules will not be enforced at this time. They will however be enforced at a future time when the OS2INET echo is widely available. 3) This conference is read by people all over the world. 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