Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!mvb.saic.com!dayton.saic.com!ake From: ake@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Re: Help setting up ANU NEWS access via DECNET! Message-ID: <1991Jun17.153608.1690@dayton.saic.com> Date: 17 Jun 91 19:36:08 GMT References: Organization: Science Applications Intl. Corp., Dayton, Ohio Lines: 51 In article , SEAN@CLARKU.BITNET (May we be forgiving of our faults and tolerant of our differences.) writes: > OLLIE's Object Volatile Summary as of 15-JUN-1991 19:43:43 > > Object Number File/PID User Id Password > > NNTP 0 NEWS_MANAGER:NNTP_DEC.EXE NNTP$SERVER > > > JACK's Object Volatile Summary as of 15-JUN-1991 20:37:00 > > Object Number File/PID User Id Password > > NNTP 0 NEWS_MANAGER:NNTP_DEC.EXE NNTP$SERVER > > $ nntp_client > Node: jack > Channel (DECNET, UCXtcp)? [DECNET]: > Decnet NNTP Objects are commonly of the form: > TASK=NNTP used by most VMS NNTP server implementations > NNTP= used by Ultrix NNTP servers > NEWS= used by some VMS NNTP server implementations > Decnet Object string? [TASK=NNTP] : > Use DECnet stream input calls (normally only with Ultrix NNTP server)? [N]: > %SYSTEM-F-LINKEXIT, network partner exited > > DECNET (NCP) gurus: I have not seen ANY NCP error messages > at all. I have seen no timeouts or > circuit/line problems at any time. If in fact nntp$server is getting logged in, then there should be a netserver.log file in the NEWS_ROOT:[NNTP$SERVER] directory. Check that to see what might be happening. I have the NNTP_DEC.EXE installed as: $ install add news_root:nntp_dec/priv=(sysprv,syslck) exit I have a version working just fine. -Earle _____________________________________________________________________________ ____ ____ ___ Earle Ake /___ /___/ / / Science Applications International Corporation ____// / / /__ Dayton, Ohio ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet: ake@dayton.saic.com uucp: dayvb!ake SPAN: 28284::ake