Hi Netters, I'm pleased to tell you that one of our colleagues has provided me with 29 NetWare utilites he has written. They are already available on Compu$erve. I have now put them onto our ftp-server ftp.novell.de (193.97.1.1) into the directories %/pub/netwire/unsupported/nlm and %/pub/netwire/unsupported/workstation. Below you will find a description of these tools. Hope you enjoy using them! Peter --- snip --- snip --- snip --- snip --- snip --- snip --- snip --- snip --- 286386.ZIP Title : API Differences in NetWare 286 and 386 Keywords: PROGRAMMING API C LIBRARY This file lists about 380 NetWare APIs by their name and specifies if the API is supported in NetWare 286 or NetWare 386. Programmers can use it as a reference. Uploaded by author Wolfgang Schreiber ACCT.ZIP Title : ACCOUNT.EXE: Utility to view/set/charge user accounts Keywords: ACCOUNTING CHARGES ACCOUNT BALANCE PAUDIT SUPERVISOR UTILITY ACCOUNT.EXE is a utility to add additional features to NetWares internal accounting. ACCOUNT.EXE can view users' accounts, charge users, set account limits/ balances/holds, add notes to the accounting protocol (NET$ACCT.DAT). ACCOUNT.EXE can be used from the command line or from batch files to automate user specific accounting procedures. Public domain uploaded by author Wolfgang Schreiber. Lib 16 APRITE.ZIP Title : ApRite: Grant rights to applications (v2.0) Keywords: GRANT APPLICATION SECURITY RIGHTS JOB SERVER SUPERVISOR UTILITY ApRite (stands for Application Right) allows to grant rights to applications. A supervisor can allow users to run applications with pre-defined rights. User rights will change to those of another user while the specified application runs. Fully operational version for 2 months after inst. Written/Uploaded by Wolfgang Schreiber (NovLib 15) CLEANX.ZIP Title : Clean Up NetWare Mail/Queue Directories Keywords: BINDFIX NETWARE SUPERVISOR UTILITY MAILBOX QUEUE Utility to clean up unused queue and mailbox directories in NetWare v2.x/v3.x CleanX will find the subdirectories below SYS:MAIL and SYS:SYSTEM that have been used for mail/queue directories. CleanX will show owners of valid queue/mail directories. If the proper user/queue does not exist any more, CleanX will delete it after asking for your confirmation. PD - Uploaded by author Wolfgang Schreiber. DO-FOR.ZIP Title : Do-For: Execute commands for each user/member Keywords: BINDERY OBJECTS COMMAND SUPERVISOR UTILITY USER GROUP 'DoForAll.EXE' and 'DoForMmb.EXE' allow to issue any command for a specified set of users or groups. "DoForAll User=* NCOPY xyz.doc SYS:MAIL/%ID" issues NCOPY for all users. "DoForAll Gr=W* MD f:%name" creates a subdir for each matching group. DoForMmb.EXE does a similar function for all members of a specified group. New release with batch file support. PD written and uploaded by Wolfgang Schreiber. DOWN.ZIP Title : Utility to down a server from prompt or batch job Keywords: DOWN SERVER SUPERVISOR UTILITY DOWN.EXE will down a file server from the command line if you are supervisor or equivalent. Syntax: "DOWN ". If there are open user files, the server won't go down except when "!" is added as a second parameter ("DOWN !"). Help is available by calling DOWN without parameters. Can be used in batch jobs. (Uploaded by author Wolfgang Schreiber, corrects wrong error message in previous upload) DSKTST.ZIP Title : DskTst: Benchmark for NetWare Disk Channels Keywords: NETWARE DISK CONTROLLER PERFORMANCE BENCHMARK TEST Tool to Benchmark Disk I/O on NetWare Servers - DskTst will copy files within one server without transferring data over the wire. - It tests the components: server disk, controller, caching, CPU, cluster size optimization - Source and destination drive may be on different volumes/controllers. PD written/uploaded by Wolfgang Schreiber EQUIV.ZIP Title : EQUIV.EXE finds who's equivalent to somebody else Keywords: SECURITY EQUIVALENCE SUPERVISOR UTILITY This little program allows to get a list of all users (or other bindery objects) that are security equivalent to any other user (or other object). Find who is SUPERVISOR equivalent, or who's equivalent to another user or group. Output can be redirected to file or printer. Help available by entering command without any parameters. Written in Turbo Pascal. Uploaded by author (Wolfgang Schreiber, Novell Germany) GENCON.ZIP Title : GENCON: Edit Print Servers' Account Restrictions Keywords: SUPERVISOR UTILITY SECURITY STATION TIME RESTRICTIONS BALANCE GENCON allows a supervisor to view and edit account restrictions for users, print servers, job servers or other bindery objects. Increase security by defining restrictions for print servers. Changes account balance, account restrictions, time restrictions, station restrictions. SAA style interface - use mouse. Public domain written and uploaded by Wolfgang Schreiber MAPSAV.ZIP Title : MAPSAVE: Save and Restore your Current Mappings Keywords: MAP MAPPINGS SAVE RESTORE DRIVES MAPSAVE allows you to store your current mappings (or a subset) to a batch file that can be run whenever you need to restore those mappings. Standard and search drives can be stored. Simple source code is included (PASCAL). Written and uploaded by Wolfgang Schreiber. Lib 14 MONITO.ZIP Title : MONITOR.EXE: Show User Activity on Workstation Keywords: NETWARE SERVER CONNECTION INFORMATION FILES SUPERVISOR UTILITY MONITOR.EXE will display connection information on the screen of a supervisor's or operator's workstation. MONITOR will display user names, station addresses, open files and the file access status (read/write/lock/TTS). MONITOR can handle up to 8 file servers with up to 256 connections. Public domain written by Wolfgang Schreiber. NWP.ZIP Title : Sample: Use NW*.DLLs with Turbo Pascal for Windo Keywords: PROGRAMMING PASCAL DLL NETWARE WINDOWS A little demo program shows how to call the NetWare DLLs that come in WINUPx.ZIP from Borland's Turbo Pascal for Windows. It's VERY easy. To use more DLL APIs you need to purchase the "NetWare C Interface for Windows (SDK)". Written and uploaded by Wolfgang Schreiber. OVER32.ZIP Title : OVER32: Handle up to 1000 Security Equivalences Keywords: GROUPS TRUSTEES SECURITY EQUIVALENCE RIGHTS SUPERVISOR UTILITY NetWare can handle a maximum of 32 security equivalences. To allow proper indirect trustee assignments, users should not be member of more than 32 groups. The preferred solution is to rethink the server's security structure. If >32 groups are definitely needed, you can use OVER32.EXE - it handles up to 1000 security equivalences. Disadvantage: it has to be run whenever group members/rights change. Written and uploaded by Wolfgang Schreiber. Lib 14 PAUDIT.ZIP Title : PAUDIT2: replaces NetWare's PAUDIT.EXE Keywords: ACCOUNTING SECURITY ANALYSIS USER CHARGES SUPERVISOR UTILITY The other PAUDIT: Compact summary of NET$ACCT.DAT; selectable criteria: User, group (bug fix), network, station, date, warnings, charges; optional semi-graphical or database output, handle corrupted NET$ACCT. v1.34b. New features: exclude items, rebuild accounting file, Btrieve output. Over 2000 previous DLs with older versions. PD by Wolfgang Schreiber. PRTPRB.ZIP Title : Printing: Tips, Problems, Solutions Keywords: PRINTING PSERVER CAPTURE RPRINTER PROBLEMS TECH TIPS This text file can help in troubleshooting printing problems. It gives an overview and hints for any kind of printing problem (CAPTURE, PSERVER, RPRINTER, PostScript, Plotters, ...) that goes beyond the manuals. This text file condenses experience from technical support for NetWare printing and information from TIDB/NSE. (compiled by Wolfgang Schreiber) PWD.ZIP Title : Use password encryption with CLIB Keywords: CLIB API PASSWORD ENCRYPTION PROGRAMMING Workaround: Until Novell provides an interface for other programming languages to use password encryption there is a (bad but operational) workaround to call the 3 encryption API's (ChangePWD, VerifyPWD, LoginObj). This file collection demostrates a Turbo Pascal v6.0 unit using encryption. It can easily be modified for other TP versions, or for other languages. Uploaded by Wolfgang Schreiber.[75730,1051] QUICK.ZIP Title : QUICK: Management Tools for NetWare LANs (v1.16) Keywords: SUPERVISOR UTILITY BINDERY MANIPULATION SERVER DOCUMENTATION Supervisor utility: Complete server documentation; create/delete/ show/copy/hide/rename users/groups/subgroups/queues/...; dump bindery; check server configuration; SYSCON/FCONSOLE/PCONSOLE features from batch/prompt; check/repair bindery. NW v2.x and v3.x. Fully operational 60 days DEMO. Uploaded by author Wolfgang Schreiber (over 1200 prev downloads) RC.ZIP Title : RC: The Alternative RCONSOLE Keywords: SUPERVISOR UTILITY REMOTE CONSOLE OPERATOR RCONSOLE RC is a quick and easy alternative to RCONSOLE. It allows you to enter any NetWare v3.x console command from a DOS workstation. You can for example mount volumes ("RC mount VOL4"), un/load NLMs ("RC unload monitor"), or enter any other console command. RC shows the resulting server console screen on the workstation, and allows redirection to files or printers. Public domain by Lubor Ptacek and Wolfgang Schreiber. SAVEUS.ZIP Title : SAVEUSER: MAKEUSER upside down Keywords: BINDERY SUPERVISOR SECURITY MAKEUSER UTILITY SAVEUSER is a revision of MAKEUSER: it reads the bindery and creates an ASCII file in MAKEUSER format. You can use SAVEUSER to document security structure, or to transfer users to other file servers, or to use existing users as a model to create new ones. The resulting ASCII file can be edited before submitting it to MAKEUSER. Help is available by entering "SAVEUSER" without parameters. (Uploaded by author: Wolfgang Schreiber) Lib 14 SHIPS.ZIP Title : Battleships: 2 User Game for NW (v2.x, v3.x, Lit Keywords: NETWARE GAME MULTIUSER FUN SHIPS is a two user game similar to the battle ship game we used to play during math lessons. This new version uses NetWare and runs on any NetWare version - including NetWare Lite. Public domain written and uploaded by Wolfgang Schreiber. SHODOT.ZIP Title : SHOWDOTS changes/shows "SHOW DOTS" shell paramete Keywords: SHOW DOTS SHELL SHELL.CFG NET.CFG SHOWDOTS.EXE has two functions: Show the current setting of the "SHOW DOTS" parameter of the rev. 3.xx shell, or change this parameter to 'ON' or 'OFF'. Easy syntax: "SHOWDOTS ON" or "SHOWDOTS OFF" changes the setting; "SHOWDOTS" displays current setting; "SHOWDOTS ?" gives help. (Written by author Wolfgang Schreiber (haha)) SUPER.ZIP Title : SUPER: Switch Supervisor Equivalence on/off Keywords: SUPERVISOR EQUIVALENCE RIGHTS SECURITY UTILITY SUPER.EXE allows you to switch SV equivalence on/off when needed. Do your daily work as normal user, and be SV only when needed. Includes DOS and Windows version. No security gap, since you have to be SV equivalence to initialize SUPER for you. New features. Replaces SUPER.ZIP/WSUPER.ZIP (1400+ previous DLs) PD uploaded by author: Wolfgang Schreiber SWATCH.ZIP Title : SWATCH: Server Watch for NetWare v2.1x/v2.2x Keywords: SUPERVISOR UTILITY MONITOR CONSOLE OPERATOR Supervisor/Operator management/diagnostic tool for NW 286. Watch, trace, protocol server statistics: real-time check of system, LAN I/O, volume usage, user activities, open files, file access alerts. Get usage profiles over time. Allow statistics trace over time with output to printer, file. New features: Set alarm thresholds, full help. Public Domain written and uploaded by Wolfgang Schreiber TRACK.ZIP Title : TRACK.EXE - Display SAP and RIPs on PCs (v1.2) Keywords: MONITOR ROUTING ROUTER SAP RIP CONSOLE TRACE UTILITY After entering "TRACK ON" on any workstation with IPX loaded, it will display routing information on the network similar to the information that can be displayed with the console command "TRACK ON" on a file server or router. Output can be redirected to files or printers. 955 prev DLs. Uploaded by author Wolfgang Schreiber - Lib 14 TRUST.ZIP Title : TRUSTEES.EXE displays all trustee assignments Keywords: TRUSTEES RIGHTS DIRECTORY UTILITY TRUSTEES displays all trustees of all directories of a file server running NW v2.x/v3.x. It allows comprehensive overview over the server's security structure. "TRUSTEES /?" gives help; "TRUSTEES n" displays only dirs with trustees, or more (see NW v3.10 bug & DELFIX). TRUSTEES is directory oriented, QUICK.ZIP (LIB 14) is user oriented. (Uploaded by author Wolfgang Schreiber) (Replaces previous corrupted upload) Lib 14 UNLOCK.ZIP Title : UNLOCK.EXE -- Releases Printer Server Lockouts Keywords: PRINT SERVER LOCKOUT RELEASE If intruder detection is active, a print server can be locked out after entering invalid passwords. There is no chance to release the print server (like SYSCON does with users) until the lockout time has passed. This file releases print servers (and users) accounts. Help is available by entering UNLOCK without options. Lib 12 VSPACE.ZIP Title : VSPACE.EXE - Show Users' Volume Usage/Restriction Keywords: VOLUME DISK RESTRICTIONS USER DSPACE SUPERVISOR UTILITY VSPACE - list volume restrictions and volume disk usage for all volumes and all or selected users. VSPACE scans all (or selected) users and checks their volume usage and restrictions on a NetWare 386 file server. Output can be redirected. (Written and uploaded by Wolfgang Schreiber) WHOHAS.ZIP Title : WhoHas a File ? Runs on NetWare 286/386 Keywords: NETWARE FILE ACCESS OPEN SUPERVISOR UTILITY WhoHas shows the connections and names of users who currently access a specified file. This workstation based tool works with NetWare v2.1x, v2.2x, and v3.x (Public domain uploaded by author Wolfgang Schreiber) WINDOT.ZIP Title : SHOWDOTS.EXE (for Windows): Change 'Show Dots' S Keywords: DOTS SHELL ENVIRONMENT WINDOWS UTILITY SHOWDOTS.EXE previously existed as a DOS version (see SHODOT.ZIP) and now has been rewritten as a Windows utility. It allows to change the shell variable 'SHOW DOTS' on-line. Until now the setting could only be modified while loading the shell and using the NET.CFG configuration file. Now the setting can be changed anytime. Public domain written by Wolfgang Schreiber. XFER.ZIP Title : XFER.EXE: Copy users/groups between file servers Keywords: COPY TRANSFER USERS GROUPS BINDERY SERVER SUPERVISOR UTILITY Utility to transfer/copy selected users or groups between file servers. Users/groups can be selected by names (with wildcards allowed). NetWare 286/386 supported. You must be attached to source and target server. Written and uploaded by Wolfgang Schreiber Lib 14 XREN.ZIP Title : Rename weird directory/file names Keywords: INVALID NAMES DIRECTORY FILE NETWARE 386 SUPERVISOR UTILITY XREN allows to rename files and directories that cannot be renamed by other DOS/NetWare tools. XREN should not be used as a day-to-day tool, but only as last rescue for visible, but inaccessible directories or names. It uses NetWares AFP APIs to allow greater flexibility in directory and file names. 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