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Visionfs



Network Neighborhood, Visionfs, Samba Authentication and all that Unix and Linux machines have been able to provide Network Neighborhood style file and print services for some time now, but I constantly see confusion and problems due to misunderstanding of how these things work.


Title Date Comments
Overview of Visionfs   1998 08 
- Visionfs puts your SCO box into the Network Neighborhood of your Windows machines -
Why can't my other sub-net browse the Visionfs or Samba shares?   2009 09 
- That's the way Microsoft wants it to work. First, if all you want to do is ACCESS the shares, you can, even though they don't pop up in Network neighborhood -
Visionfs licensing expires message   2005 10 
- No licenses were located so VisionFS ran as a 30-day evaluation. The evaluation period has run out. Contact SCO to obtain a valid license, or uninstall VisionFS now. -
WinPopup   2004 02  2010/02/11 anonymous
- This is a perl script that sends out a SMB Message to all users via "WinPopUp", using SAMBA. -
Visionfs and Samba   2003 08 
- Visionfs and Samba -
Network Neighborhood, Visionfs, Samba Authentication and all that   2003 05 
- Unix and Linux machines have been able to provide Network Neighborhood style file and print services for some time now, but I constantly see confusion and problems due to misunderstanding of how these things work. -
Visionfs Printing to LaserJet- J.P. Radley   1999 12  2011/01/05 BigDumbDinosaur
- This is a diff format file, suitable for use with patch. -
Visionfs Printing   1999 03 
- Vision Printing -
How do I get the latest version of Visionfs for Unixware 7 and SCO_OSR5 5.0.4 or greater?   1997-2003 
- latest visionfs? (sco) -
How do I convert Visionfs to encrypted passwords?   1997-2003 
- visionfs encrypted passwords -
How can I send WinPopup messages to Windows machines?   1997-2003 
- How can I send WinPopup messages to Windows machines? -
How can I add a formfeed or other control to jobs sent to a Visionfs printer?   1997-2003 
- How can I add a formfeed or other control to jobs sent to aVis -
 
 
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How can I mount Windows shares on the SCO server using Visionfs?   1997-2003 
- How can I mount Windows shares on the SCO server using Visionfs? -
visionfs -->Re Mounting WinNT Shares using VisionFS SMBClient   1997-2004 
- visionfs -->Re: Mounting WinNT Shares using VisionFS SMBClient -
Visionfs issues -->Re NT PDC and Visionfs   1997-2004 
- Visionfs issues -->Re: NT PDC and Visionfs -
visionfs line ending lineending convert conversion cr lfcr/lf line feed linefeed character epson printer -->Re SCOVisionfs & Epson C80   1997-2004 
- visionfs line ending -
visionfs line ending lineending convert conversion cr lfcr/lf line feed linefeed character -->Re I can't findsomething!   1997-2004 
- Windows and UNIX use different styles of line endings in files. If a Windows user views a file saved from UNIX, or a UNIX user views a file saved from Windows, the user may not see line breaks in the correct places, or may see spurious characters at the end of lines. Converting UNIX-style line endings to Windows-style (and back again) solves this problem. -
windows xp and visionfs   1997-2004 
- windows xp and visionfs -
visionfs -->Re NT admin needs help (WINSclient)   1997-2004 
- The Visionfs docs (which are easily found on the web in pdf format and are also on the server itself) more than adequately cover configuring it to be either a Wins server or a client of another server. You just run "profedit" logged in as the Administrator on a Windows machine, click Server Properties, and click the Wins tab, the "Register with these Wins servers" (or something close to that. -
visionfs shares access shares from Unix -->Re writing to local FD driver using telnet ?   1997-2004 
- You'd need to share the device or directory on the user's drive. You have to use the client-admin features of Visionfs to setup a directory on the SCO machine that actually refences the shared drive on the user's PC. -
Bridging vs. Routing -->Re Visionfs over a Cisco 1600router   1997-2004 
- When you connect two networks, you have two basic choices: bridges or routers. If the networks are small, and the connection is not low speed, then a bridge makes sense because it just passes every bit of traffic to both sides: the bridge really joins the two networks together transparently. -
samba visionfs slow   1997-2004 
- If that takes forever but using the IP address is instantaneous, you have a mess somewhere between HOSTS and LMHOSTS probably on the Windoze side.` -
Windows XP network neighborhood firewall browsing   1997-2004 
- I have seen that when you change the name of an account. It sends the old name and the new password if I remember right. -
visionfs across routed wans lan -->Re windows filesharing   1997-2004 
- visionfs across routed wans lan -->Re: windows file sharing -
Microsoft Word visionfs -->Re VisonFS3.00.925 and WinWord 2000 trouble, Answer from SCO   1997-2004 
- A peek at how the inner workings of Word can slow down network opens.0 -
Visionfs AIX -->Re VisionFS Client will not start on AIX 4.3.3   1997-2004 
- Can't start Visionfs client on AIX, failed to mount SCO VisionFS SMB Client, stopping... -
visionfs licensing -->Re Found Answer to Lost Drive Mappings with VisionFS   1997-2004 
- Is Visionfs licensed in tandem with the operating system user licensing? 0 -
Windows 2000 security policy passwords unencrypted -->Re W2k passwords and VFS   1997-2004 
- Windows 2000 security policy passwords unencrypted -->Re:W2k passwords and VFS -
visionfs over internet -->Re VisionFS access thru the internet   1997-2004 
- Running Visionfs over an internet or VPN link, using LMHOSTS -
Visionfs and ppp -->Re SCO 5.0.5 ppp to ISP   1997-2004 
- Phone line called every 5 minutes by nsmsrv requesting nonexistent domain name. - yes, it still talks about "phone" rather than "ppp" or even the more generic "network link". -
Visionfs broadcasting -->Re Vision FS Broadcast - how to limit?   1997-2004 
- Forcing SCO Unix visionfs to appear in specific domains or workgroups, limit Visionfs to one specific workgroup only - or have it not be in any workgroup at all. -
Printer aliases in Visionfs -->Re VisionFS, networked printers and sharing in SCO 5.0.5   1997-2004 
- Clashing printer names create confusion in Visionfs printing. Hiding printers from browsing is part of the fix.0 -
Visionfs printing -->Re Network Neighbourhood and VisionFS   1997-2004 
- Using VisionFS to print from UNIX to a shared Windows printer *DOES NOT* use the remote print/LPD printer mechanism that the SCO remote print manager provides. That mechanism uses standard TCP/IP printing to pass a job from an LPD client on the SCO box to a Windows based LPD server on the PC. -
 
 
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