Visionfs issues

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From: mrsmiley@hotbot.com (Kenneth McCormick)
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Subject: Re: NT PDC and Visionfs
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 14:06:31 -0700
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Recentky, chad@lemmen.com said...
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|Jim Richardson wrote:
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|> Hey SCO Folks
|>
|> Boy it would be nice if some of you folks that know lots more than I
|> could give a short course on the relationships of Vision Logon Servers
|> and NT PDC servers.  This will become increasingly important as we move
|> towards single logons.
|>
|> Sure hope you're out there.
|>
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|I've posted twice asking for help on getting VisionFS to act as a logon
|server for my Win98 machines, but I haven't gotten any replies.  I guess no
|one is doing it or maybe they aren't having any problems.  I really don't
|want to have to turn the NT server back on, but it looks like I'm going to
|have to since I can't get VisionFS to work.  That sucks

Suck or suck not, there is no try.  I am taking your evil crosspost put of
my To:.  Ahhhh, you see, I've solved one of your problems just like that :)

>From the vfsintro.pdf file,

'  Network logon services let you configure what happens when Windows users
 log onto the network. When you enable network logon services, users�
 Windows profiles (personal Windows settings, such as desktop icons and
 program groups) are stored centrally, on the VisionFS server. A VisionFS
 server can use one of its server names to provide network logon services to all
 the Windows PCs in a particular workgroup.
   Once you�ve configured the VisionFS server and users� PCs correctly, then
 whenever a user logs onto the network from a Windows PC, Windows
 retrieves their profile and user environment information from the VisionFS
 server. Retrieving profiles from a central location like this is called roaming
 profiles. Roaming profiles let users log onto different Windows PCs, yet
 always see the same, consistent Windows environment�the same icons on
 their desktops, the same applications started, and the same drive letters
 mapped.
   SEE ALSO �Network logon services overview�, in the Help index. '

 It worked for me, so I disabled it.  Many users of vision would do well to 
prove to themselves that every comp on their LAN can ping every other comp 
by node name, by full domain name, and by IP addy.  This simple test helps 
evoke any errors in Netbios and/or tcp config.

What specific problems do you all have? 

Do you have vfs encrypted passwords and vision file locking 
(both defaults) working properly?

What strange dns do you all have lurking about?

Do you realize that you can keep the windows side of names and finding 
computers rather simple with just a few text files?

Do you realize that vision and windows use netbios for almost all
name and logon duties?

Have you been sure to enable File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks
etc, etc, etc ?

Have you read, at the vision web site, the help documents, faqs, and tips that
are nowhere to be found on the ta site?  I admit that I've been using visionfs
for a few years, very happily, but I still have all the problems that 
everyone else does with the initial configuration.  I have to read all the
docs at the vision web site every time I install a new version, then deja
news, the crowbar vision profile to run and read all the docs that are
available through there.  It's wierd, but truely amazing when it works.
You can do it.

Ken 

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