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- From: dwatts@ki.com (Dan Watts)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: mac network copy from 4ddn 4.0.4 fails - machine type "dec" ?
- Keywords: dec macintosh network copy 4ddn 4.0.4
- Message-ID: <1230@ki.com>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 19:13:29 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.210725.18014@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <1992Aug5.205951.14880@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <1992Aug11.220507.26055@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
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- In article <1992Aug11.220507.26055@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> raymond@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz ( Raymond W L Martin) writes:
- |raymond@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz ( Raymond W L Martin) writes:
- |
- |>Has anyone noticed that 4ddn on irix 4.0.4 advertises itself as a system type
- |>DEC. When using "network copy" from a macintosh a users reports that he
- |>can list and select files on our 4d/240D but the copy fails.
- |
- |THIS IS NOT CAUSED BY kinet lat v4.3 R11 beta as I previously thought.
- |
- |OK for the sake of honesty I must now eat crow. We have removed kinet lat R11
- |v4.3 form our 4d/240 and the problem still stands. However we are leaving it
- |off because it corrupted our /etc/wtmp file. So the only factor to change was
- |IRIX 4.0.1 to IRIX 4.0.4. We hope the upgrade to IRIX 4.0.5 will fix it.
- |
- | Ray Martin
- | Computer Centre
- | University of Auckland
-
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- As a further followup to this posting, Ray Martin, Jim Greenslade and I have
- determined what the real cause of his problem is. The MAC NetCopy software
- [DECnet sold by DEC] is incorrectly identifying the Irix system as a VMS
- system. Because of this, it creates VMS style pathnames for it's file
- requests. The SGI 4DDN product however can't handle VMS pathnames. It
- appears that something in 4DDN changed in the upgrade to 4.0.4. If Ray had
- been using the kiNET DECnet product [openDNA] on the Irix system, he would
- not have had this problem. openDNA supports VMS pathname syntax in addition
- to standard Unix pathname syntax and would have worked just fine with the
- MAC NetCopy software.
-
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