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From: doelz@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: TSSnet (Mac VAX connectivity)
Message-ID: <1990Aug6.122623.861@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 6 Aug 90 11:26:23 GMT
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Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
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In article <1292.26b6d99b@gp.govt.nz>, martinh@gp.govt.nz (Martin D. Hunt) writes:
> Is anyone running TSSnet? It is a program which enables a Macintosh to 
yes we are running TSSNET for more than one year now. 
> We have had a problem with this product for the last 3 1/2 months, since 
> upgrading our VAX to VMS V5.2, and have not had any joy from the New 
We didnt have problems with this. Currently we are running VMS 5.3. 
> initiated from the VAX. We are running TSSnet V1.2.
We are running the same version under a Mac II with the original NuBus 
card, running 6.0.4 US Version. 
> I would appreciate hearing from anyone else who is running this product, or 
Problems I encountered are : 

Incompatibility with some cdevs on the Mac. Mine is running Decnet, TCP/IP, 
EthertalkI, EthertalkII and TOPS. Gives rise to some problems with older 
versions of SuperClock, some security cdevs, all kind of appletalk-affecting 
inits, and some fkeys. 

Wrong setting of circuits, buffers, etc. on the MAC executor side. 

Have heard of IICi running into trouble, and other cards don't seem 
to run smoothly. 

Try to reset the ethernet board (there is a utility provides by TSSNET). 

Try to run TCP/IP and see whether the ethernet connection is fine. 

Use decnet tests to check functionality of the listeners: 
ncp> tell mac show exec status 
should work. 

Maybe this is of some help. 
regards 
Reinhard 

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