[comp.sys.hp] multiple users on HP9000/300

thollowe@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Tom Hollowell) (05/03/91)

I am a newly appointed "baby-sitter" for an HP 9000/300, and
have some questions about setting the system up for 
multiple users. It is currently running HP-UX 7.0  

We have an ether net for the system, but only one person at
a time is able to log in through the net at a time.
One perosn can also use the console, while another can user  
a hardwired terminal, which makes a max of 3 users at a time.

I am new to networks and as such am not very knowledgeable about
them yet.  This LAN seems to be the problem with my system, but I 
don't know how to fix it quite yet.    If this posting show too much
of my ignorance, I apologize.
 
How do i configure this system, or the net, so that more than one
user can access it through the network.

]If I can get this working, then I will advance to System Administrator,
so my future lies in your hands.  Any help will be
greatly appreciated..

Tom Hollowell.
-- 
"My uniform is leather, and my power is my age.
I'm getting it together to break out of this cage"
                  "Flaming Youth", KISS
Tom Hollowell Ohio University, Athens  

franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC) (05/10/91)

  Your system has probably only a 2-user license (I won't go into why
you  can get 3 logged-in users on a 2-user license). A Series 300 7.0
2-user license allows two non-LAN (i.e. console and RS232 ports) users
*or* one non-LAN user and any number of LAN users.

  You can check your license with "uname -v". If it says "A" then you
have a 2-user license. See uname(1) and (uname(2) for details and talk
to your HP salesrep if you need a license for more users.

Frank "Your future is probably only a question of money." Slootweg,
HP Dutch Customer Response Center.

Working but not speaking for HP.

P.S. HP did not invent this "A LAN user is not a real user." thing, we
     only allow our customers to benefit from this <deleted by News
     (or HP? :-)) police>.