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From: 00csgunn@bsu-ucs.uucp (II Infinatum!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Beyond castoff
Message-ID: <54394@bsu-ucs.uucp>
Date: 6 Jan 91 19:31:25 GMT
References: <1991Jan2.194637.6709@momenta>
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Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's
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In article <1991Jan2.194637.6709@momenta>, gregpf@momenta (Greg Presedo-Floyd) writes:
> Our Novell 386 3.0/3.1 server broadcasts "serious" problem messages to
> ALL of our users, regardless of having run CASTOFF.EXE.
> 
> "PRINTER NAME out of paper" and "Volume VOL_NAME almost out of disk space"
> apparently cannot be stopped and interrupt code builds and other activities
> like Sytos server backup.
> 
> I don't want to buy the Novell Developer's Library and write code to stop
> these messages.
> 
> What should we use/do/try to get a really, really CASTOFF ?
>--

Greg,

Try CASTOFF ALL from the dos shell. That should disable all broadcasts
sent to the station from the server or another station.

Hope this helps.
 
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