Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!canterbury!cctr127 From: cctr127@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Jason Haar, NEWS Manager) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Re: Help setting up ANU NEWS access via DECNET! Message-ID: <1991Jun18.120942.1121@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> Date: 18 Jun 91 00:09:41 GMT References: Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Lines: 33 In article , "May we be forgiving of our faults and tolerant of our differences." writes: > Help! I have been trying to set up NEWS for some time with > no success. I was using NEWS for a while as a diskless > client, reading NEWS off a remote site via TCP (we use > DEC's UCX V1.3). Everything worked fine. However, I need > to stop using the remote site's disks to read news, so I > have to set up a local NEWS database on one of our nodes > and then read NEWS via DECNET from our other nodes. > > > NNTP$SERVER account: > ------------------- > > Username: NNTP$SERVER Owner: NNTP$SERVER default > Account: DECNET UIC: [376,377] ([NNTP$SERVER]) > CLI: DCL Tables: > Default: NEWS_ROOT:[NNTP$SERVER] > LGICMD: NL: > Flags: DisCtlY DefCLI Where is NNTP_DEC.EXE run?? I think you'll find that NNTP_DEC.EXE needs to be put in the NNTP$SERVER account, and a LOGIN.COM created that runs it. You'll then need to change the LGICMD line under AUTHORIZE to LOGIN Hope that helps -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jason Haar. Network Consultant, CSC, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Email j.haar@csc.canterbury.ac.nz Ph: 64 3 642336 Fax: 64 3 642999 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------