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- From: edm@harpo.dev.uga.edu (Ed Maioriello)
- Subject: Weird Problem at Login...
- Message-ID: <BxvtEs.BoM@harpo.dev.uga.edu>
- Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:35:14 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- Hi,
-
- A department at our University is trying to set up a LAN and its
- got a problem thats baffling me. I can attach to the server (using
- either old ipx or via ODI) and actually do a dir listing of the
- LOGIN dir. But generally when I try to login it hangs the system. The
- console shows a connections - not logged in. Occasionally I've been
- able to log in, but the errors were being flashed as if the default
- login script was being misread. Then the weird part - I ran the login
- program off a floppy disk and it worked fine, but then later on we had
- subsequent problems reading the NFO databases in NFOLIO (Netware Help).
-
- This is an isolated lan - the workstations are 486/25 boxes running DOS
- 5.0. The server is as follows:
-
- 486/50 ISA bus AMI Bios.
- 16Mb RAM
- DOS 5.0 on 10MB DOS partition.
- Ultrastore Ultra 14F 16 bit SCSI controller
- 2 - 105Mb Quantum Prodrive 105's
- Advance Lan Product NE2000 Compatible NIC (I'm starting to hate
- *compatible* NICS).
-
- The startup.ncf file loads the u14_31x.dsk (920626) driver which auto
- loads aspitran.dsk (911111). The autoexec.ncf is pretty bare bones with
- only one logical board defined - using 802.3 frames with IPX bound to
- it. They are using the NE2000.lan driver rather than the one that comes
- with the NIC.
-
- Does anyone have any ideas? I reckon I'm gonna start swapping out NICS
- and SCSI controllers, probably gonna use SMCPLUS NICs and Adaptec 1540
- controllers.
-
- Thanks in advance for any help.
-
- Ed Maioriello edm @ harpo.dev.uga.edu
- University Computing & Networking Services edm @ aisun1.ai.uga.edu
- University of Georgia ----------------------------------------------------
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