Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!decuac!decatl!shlump.nac.dec.com!clo.enet.dec.com!coburn From: coburn@clo.enet.dec.com (John T. Coburn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: Vax to Sun mail problem Message-ID: <10202@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 12 Apr 90 02:51:22 GMT Sender: newsdaemon@shlump.nac.dec.com Organization: DEC - EIS Cleveland, Ohio Lines: 54 In article , giacobbe@pilot.njin.net (Jeff Giacobbe) writes... : :Here is a problem that has been bugging me for some time. I am really :not an expert (by ANY stretch of the imagination) on either VMS or :SunOS, but here goes: : [problem description removed] :I am now running Ki Research Deknet/LAT software on the Sun machine. :If I go over to a dec terminal and type 'show nodes all' at the local :prompt (I assume this is the Dec LAT prompt) it lists all of the Vax Yes, 'Local> ' is the prompt that all DEC terminal servers use by default. :nodes : apollo, gemini, euhler, gauss etc,etc, INCLUDING logos !! : :I can type 'connect logos' from the local prompt and connect to the :Sun machine with no problem. HOWEVER, when I try to send good 'ol :Vaxmail to the 'node' logos using the address: logos::username I get :an 'unknown node' message!!! : :ARGHHHH!!!! What's the deal? If logos shows up as 'reachable' Decnet :node from the Dec LAT prompt, why the heck is it an 'unkown node' when :I try to mail something to it???? : The deal is that LAT does not equal DECnet. They are completely different protocols. Because you can 'connect' via LAT says nothing about DECnet running on either system. It would appear that either you don't have a complete DECnet implementation or the node's name and number have not been defined using the DECnet utility NCP. Since the node doesn't show on the DECnet node list then mail won't work. Also, if DECnet is running you must define the node name and number relationship for remote nodes in order to access them by name. Use NCP to do this. :Any help would be *greatly* appreciated :-- :@xxxxx{==============- giacobbe@pilot.njin.net -==============}xxxxx@ :| or | :| giacobbe@apollo.montclair.edu | :| | :| "There can be only one..." - (Highlander) | :@xxxxx{==============- -==============}xxxxx@ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Coburn !Email: Digital Equipment Corporation ! coburn%clovax.enet.dec@decwrl.dec.com Enterprise Integration Services ! Cleveland, Ohio ! ...!decwrl!clovax.enet.dec.com!coburn ================================================================================