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Re: Getting SOSS running on a PC.

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From: Isidro Vila Verde
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:48
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In article <1993Jan13.180001.3604@reed.edu> bob@reed.edu (Robert Ankeney) writes:
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>From: bob@reed.edu (Robert Ankeney)
>Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.ethernet
>Subject: Getting SOSS running on a PC.
>Message-ID: <1993Jan13.180001.3604@reed.edu>
>Date: 13 Jan 93 18:00:01 GMT
>Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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>     I am trying to install the SOSS file server on my 386 PC, with no
>luck.  I have a WD8013 board in the machine and have it successfully
>running CUTCP Telnet.  The only other machine on the network at the
>moment is a MicroVax II running Ultrix 4.2.  Anyway, I've configured
>NETDEV.SYS and added it to my CONFIG.SYS file.  I've loaded the
>packet driver, WD8003E.COM, which works fine for Telnet.  But when I
>run SOSS, I get the message:
>
>     Error: PC IP address not known.
>     Use BOOTP or CUSTOM to set your IP address.
>
>I've set the IP address in NETDEV.SYS, so I'm at a loss as to what the
>problem is.
>
>     Anyone have any ideas?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Robert Ankeney
Yes. That alredy have happen whit me, because I set 'number of subnet mask 
bits'to 8. Setting this parameter to 0, SOSS work fine, for me.
I hope this Help

Isidro
jverde@animal.inescn.pt
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