pfluegl@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Manfred J. Pfluegl) (10/12/89)
I am in pretty bad mood right now. In our lab we installed a network
of IBM AT's and compatibles. As networking software we choose Western Digital's
package called VIANET. The hardware boards are also coming from Western Digital
(WDC 8003, WD8003E, and WD8003 plus). Over the last year I experienced several
major problems:
1) Frequent crashes when the networking software is running.
It seems that crashes in applications like editors (XYWrite, MS Word) are
are the most common ones.
2) We also get the error message 'General Failure on drive Z:' from time to
time when we use 'xcopy' over the network.
3) Our PS/2 model sometimes crashes during the execution of 'nonet'.
4) We cannot open more than 15 files although the description claims that
up to 255-x (where x is a small number around 30) files can be opened
concurrently. Without VIANET running it is working properly.
I am also in contact with Western Digital directly. They are very helpful
but couldn't give me any explanations for the above problems.
My question now is: Are there any other VIANET users out there?
If so, do you also experience problems? Could you overcome any of these
problems?
Additionally, I am getting interested in other software products especially
MircoSoft Networks. Can you give me general information from the user
perspective? How convenient is it to install, to use, ...? Are there also
software bugs? ....
Any help is more than welcome.
Thank you, Manfred
PS: Since I am cross-posting please respond either via email or post in
newsgroup comp.dcom.lans only.
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***** M MP pfluegl%balboa.eng.uci.edu@RELAY.CS.NETharper@rigel.uucp (David Harper) (10/13/89)
In article <3433@orion.cf.uci.edu> pfluegl@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Manfred J. Pfluegl) writes: >I am in pretty bad mood right now. In our lab we installed a network >of IBM AT's and compatibles. As networking software we choose Western Digital's >package called VIANET. The hardware boards are also coming from Western Digital >(WDC 8003, WD8003E, and WD8003 plus). Over the last year I experienced several >major problems: > > (descriptions of various forms of grief deleted) > >PS: Since I am cross-posting please respond either via email or post in > newsgroup comp.dcom.lans only. > Please post to comp.dcom.lans if you have any experience with VIANET - I have it on order now and, based on the above, am beginning to wonder what I have got myself into. I made my purchase based on two separate reviews in PC Magazine, since it was the only thing I saw (in my price range) that had the features I was looking for. Did I $crew up? Dave Harper - Convex Computer Corp. E-mail address: 3000 Waterview Pky. Richardson, TX 75081 harper@convex.COM (214) 497-4525 (W) (214) 727-4206 (H)