| I've recently installed DCE on a Alpha VMS (v7.0) system, using UCX (
think it was version 4, don't really recall, but it is recent) , it
also has DECnet running.
UCX is up and running (ping, telnet etc. all work) and the "_ack"
parameter is disabled. There are no error messages.
When I configure DCE to be a server all goes well, provided I don't
allow DCE to search for cells (The DCE com file runs
SYS$SYSTEM:DCE$GETCELLS.EXE to accomplish this). On my other VAX
systems I can "run getcells.exe" and it returns results, however on the
Alpha system the getcells.exe goes off into never-never land and does
not return. I can control-C out of it.
Anyone have any idea around what getcells.exe uses to gather cell
information? I assume it does UCX calls to go out and do its tasks?
What should I look for, I've tried everything?
Thanks for any ideas.
Dennis
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| 'getcells', at least on Unix, uses broadcast RPC's to send out a
request for all cells to report themselves back to the originator. The
originator build a list from the responses and presents the list to the
user.
My only advice is to make sure you have you netmask set correctly. If
you were on a network with netmask 255.255.0.0 but you had set your
machine to 255.255.255.0 then best case you wouldn't hear back from
some of the machines. If the reverse was true, and you were trying to
broadcast to more machines than were on your LAN then perhaps it could
hang, but that's just speculation.
-- brandon
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