Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato.ac.nz!hamish From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: LoginToFileServer Missing! Message-ID: <1991May17.100214.3720@waikato.ac.nz> Date: 16 May 91 22:02:14 GMT Article-I.D.: waikato.1991May17.100214.3720 References: <1991May8.162427.3631@waikato.ac.nz> <740@svcs1.UUCP> <1991May16.041501.9859@momenta.com> Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Lines: 33 In article <1991May16.041501.9859@momenta.com>, tecot@momenta.com (Ed Tecot) writes: > jims@svcs1.UUCP (Jim Serwer) writes: >>In article <1991May8.162427.3631@waikato.ac.nz> hamish@waikato.ac.nz writes: [Deleted] > >>There is a Login example in the book "NetWare Programmer's Guide" >>by John T. McCann, M&T Books. Page 271-272. > > That's a VAP login example; it's not the same thing. The code for > LoginToFileServer is not included because it contains "secret" password > encryption code, according to Novell Technical Support. Don't waste your > money upgrading to v1.2; I've got it, and it's pretty poor. > > _emt Thats a pretty poor excuse (IMO). The passwords for netware below 3.0 weren't even encripted on the wire. The file server does it. Even the Netware for DOS lists the Logintofileserver call. They could have just left out the encription part nd put a note in there. Instead its simply missing. GGGGRRRRRR!!!! -- ============================================================================== | Hamish Marson | | Computer Support Person, Computer Science Department | | University of Waikato | |Disclaimer: Anything said in this message is the personal opinion of the | | finger hitting the keyboard & doesn't represent my employers | | opinion in any way. (ie we probably don't agree) | ==============================================================================