matthew@ooc.uva.nl (Matthew Lewis) (11/07/90)
Hello, I just installed PC/NFS 3.0.1 and Lifeline Mail. We are not running NIS. I tried the mail part, after getting NFS up and running, and got it to send fine. But, even with the POP2 daemon that Sun supplies, reading did not work. It keeps telling me that the user name and password are incorrect. I can not find anywhere to enter such information. Anybody out there know? Also, I have seen some discussion about this, but is there a packet driver for PC/NFS? The telnet in PC/NFS is not of the best, as far as I can see, and we would like to be able to run other telnets (or tn3270, for instance). Thanks in advance. Summarizing of course if necessary, Regards, Matthew Lewis -- Matthew Lewis, University of Amsterdam Grote Bickersstraat 72 +31-20-52 51 220 1013 KS Amsterdam Internet: matthew@ooc.uva.nl The Netherlands UUCP: uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!uvabick!matthew
pilger@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Eric Pilger) (11/08/90)
In article <15418@slice.ooc.uva.nl> matthew@ooc.uva.nl (Matthew Lewis) writes: >I just installed PC/NFS 3.0.1 and Lifeline Mail. We are not running NIS. >I tried the mail part, after getting NFS up and running, and got it to send >fine. But, even with the POP2 daemon that Sun supplies, reading did not >work. It keeps telling me that the user name and password are incorrect. >I can not find anywhere to enter such information. Anybody out there know? > This may not be your problem, but bear in mind that POP will not work if your password has spaces in it. This was a new one to the folks at Sun when I called them. The person I talked to didn't realize you were even allowed to have spaces in passwords. To be entirely fair (now that I've had my chance to be nasty) this is apparently intrinsic to POP, and no fault of Sun's. I have just been forced to use underscores, etc. in place of spaces. Threw me for a loop for quite some time till the good folks at Sun helped me track it down (see, I can be nice if I want to.) An interesting method I have for reading my mail is to mount the mail spool directory, and directly browse my system mail spool file. This allows me to view my mail on my PC, and still have it available from Unix. This is a neccesity for me since it allows me continued access from multiple machines. Eric Pilger Systems Programmer NASA Infrared Telescope Facility