Win95 and SAP

Keith McCammon

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Jul 19, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/19/96

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Is there any documented problems with using File and Print
Services for Netware in Win95 with SAP enabled?

It seems to be messing up RCONSOLE in Netware 4.01. I get
hieroglyphics instead of servers but I'm not sure if these two
issues are related..

David Gersic

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Jul 22, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/22/96

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In <31EFB4...@asymetrix.com>, Keith McCammon <kei...@asymetrix.com> writes:
>Is there any documented problems with using File and Print
>Services for Netware in Win95 with SAP enabled?

Yes. It can, given the right set of circumstances, cause a "black hole"
effect on your network. This was pretty well documented in the trade rags
about nine months or so ago.

>It seems to be messing up RCONSOLE in Netware 4.01. I get
>hieroglyphics instead of servers but I'm not sure if these two
>issues are related..

That shouldn't be related, no.

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Sam Karim

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Jul 23, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/23/96

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I get the WIN95 SAP's and whatever changes they have broadcasting in
my servers all the time. Do ya'll know how to turn off that option in
WIN95.

Please e-mail to: ka...@utdallas.edu

--Sam

Keith McCammon <kei...@asymetrix.com> wrote:

>Is there any documented problems with using File and Print
>Services for Netware in Win95 with SAP enabled?

>It seems to be messing up RCONSOLE in Netware 4.01. I get

Gordon Fecyk

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Jul 28, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/28/96

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: I get the WIN95 SAP's and whatever changes they have broadcasting in

: my servers all the time. Do ya'll know how to turn off that option in
: WIN95.
:
:
: Please e-mail to: ka...@utdallas.edu
:
: --Sam

One or two machines SAPing might not cause a problem, but a whole LAN full
of Win95 machines SAPing can kill routing on an inter-network.

Novell noted this in their latest patch sets for NW 3.12 and 4.1. If
you're afraid of Win95 machines killing your servers, get the latest patch
set for your server.

Now, one annoying thing I did see, is Win95 SAP will show up on NetWare
4.1's console all the time. That's part of how SAP works, it's just
annoying that Novell turned on that notify feature by default in 4.1. The
best bet is just don't use SAP on the Win95 machine. If you have to use
SAP for non-Win95 clients to see it, try this:

Make sure this machine also has "Workgroup Advertising: Enabled: Preferred
Master". As the browse master role changes from machine to machine, you'll
see the annoying message on the server console. If one machine's the
preferred master, browse master will stay on that machine and no more
messages should pop up. Also, set the other machines so they have
workgroup advertsing set to "Enabled: May NOT be master". Also check to
see that everyone's Workgroup setting is the same (or if you have more than
one workgroup, see that each has one "preferred master" only.)

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