Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcnc!ece-csc!ncrcae!usceast!still From: still@usceast.UUCP (Bert Still) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.org.decus,comp.unix.questions Subject: ULTRIX-11 question Message-ID: <2416@usceast.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 00:32:21 EDT Article-I.D.: usceast.2416 Posted: Tue Jul 21 00:32:21 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 04:27:52 EDT Lines: 28 Keywords: ULTRIX-11, PDP, DECNet, login from terminal servers(?) Xref: mnetor comp.sys.dec:290 comp.org.decus:190 comp.unix.questions:3266 Author: Bert Still (usceast!still) Greetings Netfolk, First, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those that responded to my queries on the shell$xxxx calls and .DIR file formats. I tried to thank each person that sent me mail, but our BSD system (which runs all mail :-) was undergoing the upgrade to 4.3, and we were having some problems with mail and news for awhile (I think it's now fixed...); so, if you didn't receive a thank you, please accept my thanks now. Now, I have another question: much easier I believe. I am an assistant systems manager for the Math/Stat Computation Center (and using the Computer Science Dept's BSD VAX as a guest) which has a VAX 11/750 and VAX 8300, both running VMS 4.4 and DECNet. We have been given a PDP 11/34 which we would like to upgrade to an 11/84 class machine and use with UN*X, both for faculty accounts and for communications purposes. The users of the PDP accounts need to be able to log in from DECNet (DECServer 100s on the Ethernet), and they need to be able to initiate dialouts. It would be nice if a user could do remote logins (like SET HOST :-) between the PDP and the VAXen, but this is not necessary. Here is the question: it seems our best choice is ULTRIX-11, but the information I have gotten is rather nebulous about DECNet access to/from ULTRIX-11 (saying that there has to be an ULTRIX-32 node around in order to SET HOST from the PDP, and that going the other way is impossible :-( ). Does anyone know if ULTRIX-11 will allow access from a terminal server running on the Ethernet (hello, any ULTRIX-11 system managers out there?) ? Can anyone give me a better understanding of exactly what the restrictions on DECNet access are? Are there any other options? (We need the PDP to be able to "talk to" VMS and UN*X machines, and I don't think we can convert either of the VAXen to ULTRIX-32 without endangering our lives with our users... ;-) Many thanks in advance.