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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

1232.0. "Access to GPC, impact of cluster alias" by KORU::SCHRODER (Wellington - where wet wind whistles worst!) Thu Aug 13 1992 00:43

Hi,

My customer has recently upgraded to ALL-IN-1 V3 and defined a cluster alias
for their system. They have encountered the following problems:

1. Users who used to be Moderators of conferences are no longer able
   to perform moderator functions. Their attempts are rejected with an
   access denied message.

2. After a user reads a note, exists GPC, then re-enters GPC, the note is still
   in an Unseen state, that is, comes up on an index of Unseen Notes.

3. Previously the author field in the note contained only the author's username.
   Now it contains alias-name::username. My customer would like to display
   only username. (Note the cluster alias was only required to implement 
   an X.400 Message Router gateway. All users are in fact on the same node) 

Any ideas?

- Rob
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1232.1PAJERO::RHOTONJohn Rhoton @TNO - DTN 871.7947Thu Aug 13 1992 09:5734
    Re: .0
    
>My customer has recently upgraded to ALL-IN-1 V3 and defined a cluster alias
>for their system. They have encountered the following problems:
>
>1. Users who used to be Moderators of conferences are no longer able
>   to perform moderator functions. Their attempts are rejected with an
>   access denied message.

    This sounds normal to me. You will need to change the access lists for
    all the members in all the conferences to use the cluster alias.  By
    the way, this is VAX Notes (or actually, I think it is DECnet) and not just
    GPC.  If you use one of the other interfaces you should see the same
    phenomenon.
    
>2. After a user reads a note, exists GPC, then re-enters GPC, the note is still
>   in an Unseen state, that is, comes up on an index of Unseen Notes.

    I am not sure about this one.  Do you know if the conference is being
    closed when the user exits GPC?
    
>3. Previously the author field in the note contained only the author's username.
>   Now it contains alias-name::username. My customer would like to display
>   only username. (Note the cluster alias was only required to implement 
>   an X.400 Message Router gateway. All users are in fact on the same node) 
    
    Can you check this out with one of the other VAX Notes interfaces (e.g.
    the TPU interface).  I doubt that it is GPC which is doing this, since
    we do not have control over the authour's name.  Maybe it is a newer
    version of VAX Notes which accounts for the change.
    
    I hope this helps,
    
    John
1232.2Disable alias for Notes object?IOSG::PYEGraham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer's ApprenticeThu Aug 13 1992 11:5610
    3. If you disable cluster aliasing for the notes object in NCP this
    might fix this problem.
    
    Actually it might fix all the others too.
    
    But as John says, this is almost certainly not a GPC problem. In fact
    it probably isn't a notes "problem" either, but the way that Notes
    works.
    
    Graham