Vision FS Broadcast - how to limit?

[Stuart H]

Hi,

I have recently upgraded to SCO 5.05 and am using Vision FS 3.0 to
utilize the system for file and print sharing.
Everything is running great except that the server broadcasts throughout
our network and is resident in every workgroup.
I would like this server to be present within the one workgroup. It has
been specified which group the server belongs yet it still broadcasts
throughout.
How do I limit this?
Any suggestions would be greatly apreciated.

Thank you

[Matt Schofield]

Stuart H wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have recently upgraded to SCO 5.05 and am using Vision FS 3.0 to
> utilize the system for file and print sharing.
> Everything is running great except that the server broadcasts throughout
> our network and is resident in every workgroup.
> I would like this server to be present within the one workgroup. It has
> been specified which group the server belongs yet it still broadcasts
> throughout.

VisionFS can either broadcast on a network, or not broadcast at all. It
cannot be set up to only broadcast to a certain subset of machines i.e.
a workgroup. VisionFS can be configured to appear in a particular
workgroup by running (Profile Editor -> Server Properties ->
Identification.

The only surefire way of stopping VisionFS from broadcasting on a
network is to turn Windows naming off (Profile Editor -> Server
Properties -> Advanced -> Disable Naming). This will stop VisionFS from
appearing in any workgroup and will limit communications to TCP port 139
(nothing on UDP 138, 139). This will require all clients to have
VisionFS configured in their lmhosts file and users will only be able to
access the server by running '\\servername', or using premapped network
drives.

Hope this helps

Matt Schofield
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If you have multiple physical networks you can limit which nics VisionFs
will use.
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