Conference jamin::pathworks32

280.0. "MS Winsock2 RC1 problem with DECnet/Excursion" by STKHLM::IVAN () Wed May 07 1997 15:27

    There is a new Beta Release Candidate 1 of MS Winsock2 (WS295RC1.EXE,
    01-MAY 1997, 1284 KB) on the MS FTP server, mentioned in note # 252
    (ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winsock/winsock2). After installing the
    software, following the documentation on the same location and running
    PWS2INST.EXE, WSAENUM.EXE reports the three DECnet entries, exactly as
    specified in note # 252. DLOOPST.EXE runs correctly and loops and the
    VT320 emulator runs over DECnet. Installing Excursion V3.0 (on Swedish
    language W95) gives just before start copying the Excusion files from
    the CD to the hard disk error message
    
    	Error in COMMON\LIST1.C, line 1018, please report to Microsoft ,
    
    but the installation continues and finishes with success message.
    
    After configuring an X terminal application over DECnet to a VMS host 
    (with PCX$SERVER object configured) and running it from the Excursion 
    Control Panel, an error message claims that DECnet is not installed on
    the local side and recommends use of another transport (while NCP LOOP 
    and VT320 CTERM  session to the same VMS host work problem-free). 
    Issuing on the host side the command 
    
    $ CREATE/TERMINAL/DETACH/DISPLAY=NODENAME::0 
    
    results in opening terminal window on the W95/Excursion side over 
    DECnet (the host has no TCP/IP stack). Unfortunately at this customer 
    site there was no single TCP/IP host, running X client, so I was not 
    able to check if Excursion and the new Winsock2 were working properly 
    over TCP/IP.
    
    I wonder if Engineering has tested the new RC1 MS Winsock2 with PW32 
    and Excursion V3.0 over DECnet? What might be wrong in my case?
    
    With thanks in advance,
    
    Ivan Ivanov, MCS, Sweden    

    Issuing on the host side the command 
    
    $ CREATE/TERMINAL/DETACH/DISPLAY=NODENAME::0 
    
    results in opening terminal window on the W95/Excursion side over 
    DECnet (the host has no TCP/IP stack). Unfortunately at this customer 


Since you were able to run an X application using DECnet, it appears that
the problems may not be caused by Winsock2.  There may be some configuration
problem on the eXcursion side causing the "DECnet is not installed..." message.
Could you turn on logging from the eXcursion control panel and see if there
is any more information to help track this one down. 

    I wonder if Engineering has tested the new RC1 MS Winsock2 with PW32 
    and Excursion V3.0 over DECnet? 

We have successfully run eXcursion on Win95 with winsock2 and have encountered
no problems.

    Installing Excursion V3.0 (on Swedish
    language W95) gives just before start copying the Excusion files from
    the CD to the hard disk error message
    
    	Error in COMMON\LIST1.C, line 1018, please report to Microsoft ,

I haven't seen this error on installation before - I'm not sure what problems
this may cause.  I'll look into this some more.

- Andrew deBlois
  eXcursion development

    Just for another data point.  I've run this sucessfully as well. (On US
    Win95.  Is that winsock 2 kit just for US W95?)
    
    As an aside... .0 mentions that a customer is involved. Should we be
    offering this to customers? Seems like a bad idea until MS goes gold
    with Winsock 2.
    
    #Gary