gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.) (02/13/89)
In article <2046@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> obb130t@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes: >We understand that if we use DecNetDos running on a PC on the Novell net, >it can be connected by asynchronous line to the MONET (which can be taken >to behave as a fast bit of wire, we hope) and thence into a VAX and DecNet. >Ethernet, Austpac and other fancy solutions seem to be ruled out by cost. >The PC can then (with a modest amount of programming) act as a primitive >gateway, automatically copying files left in agreed directories from one >net to the other. I've tried to use DECnet-DOS and Novell on the same ethernet controller on a PC, and they didn't like each other. This won't work. I haven't tried it with async DECnet (it sounds like it might work). For other than this config, DECnet-DOS worked really well. There's folks at a site I do a lot of work for that use it constantly. They're using the SETHOST facility as a VAX terminal, the NFT program to transfer files (likely what you will use), they have several "remote" disks, and I have used it to transfer VMS files to messy-dos diskettes for reading on my UNIX-based machine at home (via FAL, I actually directly accessed MS-DOS floppies directly from a MicroVAX). This has all been via ethernet links, but I've seen OK performance on a 9600 baud async line (for file transfers). The only bug I've seen (and two different bugs in the same thing in two different versions of DECnet-DOS): when you try to SETHOST via LAT to a password-protected service on a terminal server, SETHOST chokes on accepting the password. I haven't been able to figure out why yet, nor have I notified DEC simply because we don't use it for that. If someone's gotten this to work, let me know (please!). I've never done any programming using DECnet-DOS with the C-programming interface. I try to keep to my VAXen and leave the PCs alone! ;-) ------- Gil Kloepfer, Jr. U-Net: {decuac,boulder,talcott,sbcs}!icus!limbic!gil ICUS Software Systems Voice: (516) 968-6860 [H] (516) 746-2350 x219 [W] P.O. Box 1 Internet: gil@icus.islp.ny.us Islip Terrace, NY 11752 "Life's a ... well, you know..."