From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 00:04:03 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 732 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Thursday 27 November 2003 Number 732 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 WS4eB: network applications et-al : Daryl Pilkington 2 Re: WS4eB: network applications et-al : John Angelico" 3 OT, error messages, was 'TV & MPEG Video input to OS/2' : Ian Manners" 4 'TV & MPEG Video input to OS/2' : Ed Durrant 5 Cheap OS/2 compatible digital camera : Ed Durrant 6 Re: WS4eB: network applications et-al : Daryl Pilkington 7 Re: WS4eB: network applications et-al : Daryl Pilkington **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:07:01 +1100 From: Daryl Pilkington Subject: WS4eB: network applications et-al Hi All, Q1: How do you create a DOS network application with a custom DOS environment? There must be some way to invoke a DOS *.bat file that includes custom DOS box settings. The client is CP2FP3. Q2: Using the GUI, there appears no way to assign lpt ports to a network application. However, using the command-line, to define the network application, it is possible, reading the documentation. Q3: Using the command-line, it appears it is not possible to assign network applications to a group, you will have to find out who is in the group & individually add them. The GUI allows you to drag & drop a network application onto a group, it then displays a list of users in that group:- neat! Can you use the command-line somhow to add a network application to a group? Q4: What issues are there using WS4eB with roaming profiles with W2k & WinXP clients? Anything different from roaming profiles on any sort of file server? Q5: Has the resource hogging bug in W2k & WinXP with SAMBA & WS4eB servers been fixed in W2k,SP4 & WinXP,SP1? This is where logon sessions from W2k/WinXP to the WS4eB server are not closed at logout, eventually consuming all file sharing resources. I am looking for specific answers to this one, like "I have 5 W2k clients SP4 with WS4eB & I do not have this problem." Graham, do you have any W2k boxes connected to your WS4eB server? Do you have to reboot your server because people cannot logon? Q6: What fax server software is available for WS4eB that will integrate with email & also W2k & WinXP clients? I'd like incoming faxes to be manually routed to email & W2k & WinXP clients to seamlessly fax to the LAN. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:41:12 +1100 (AEDT) From: "John Angelico" Subject: Re: WS4eB: network applications et-al On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:07:01 +1100, Daryl Pilkington wrote: >Q6: >What fax server software is available for WS4eB that will integrate with >email & also W2k & WinXP clients? >I'd like incoming faxes to be manually routed to email & W2k & WinXP >clients to seamlessly fax to the LAN. If the Win boxen can see the OS/2 fax object, then I suggest the PM-Fax LaN product. This also has Fax-To-Email functions which I have never used (address a fax to an email address and it will drop the fax as an attachment to an email into your outbox.) Start at www.cds-inc dot com as PM-Fax formerly Faxworks for OS/2 is now a part of the BackAgain stable. There is also a Win version called PrimaFax. Best regards John Angelico OS/2 SIG os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or talldad at kepl dot com dot au ___________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 15:18:28 +1100 (EDT) From: "Ian Manners" Subject: OT, error messages, was 'TV & MPEG Video input to OS/2' Rather interesting.... This email was rejected on 22/11 by vic.australis dot com dot au as it identified it as containing a virus. I'm also getting a lot of "unknown user" errors from other list members, even though I know they do exist, (hey, mpeters, your one of them, I've resubscribed you about 5 times so far..) Sigh... The internet is slowly going to pot.... Each mailout returns an average of 5 error messages now, all seem to be false, looks like various ISP's really dont know how to setup filters and software properly. On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 10:29:35 +1100, Ed Durrant wrote: > RESEND: (Corrected web references for Hauppauge cards underscore was > missing previously) > > > Nick from Perth and myself have been looking into what is available > for Video editing under OS/2. > > Some old products, or the cards they support, are no longer available, > so it's time for something new. > > Whether for video conferencing or to view TV or home videos or > to produce SVCDs or DVD Movies, OS/2 needs the capability of getting > video in to the system and compressed into MPEG. > > The product I have located is "Emperoar" which is a product from s&t > (http://www.s-t.de/) that was demonstrated at the recent European > "Warp-Weekend" event > http://OS2.mensys.nl/rwklein/warpweekend/index.html > > Here is a translation of the response I got to my enquiries: > > The main part of Emperoar consists of a so-called Personal Video > Recorder . The supported hardware are mainly the PCI-cards Hauppauge > WinTV PVR250 and PVR350. Please refer to: > http://www.hauppauge dot com/html/wintvpvr350_datasheet.htm > http://www.hauppauge dot com/html/wintvpvr250_datasheet.htm > http://www.hauppauge dot com/html/wintvpvr250mce_datasheet.htm > > There are a few less well known manufacturers in Asia who produce > cards with the same chip set (e.g. Yuan MPG160 or ProVideo PV256Pro). > These cards are supposed to work as well, but have not been tested. > > In the future we are planning to support the ATI eHome Wonder > (http://www.ati dot com/products/ehome/index.html). This will however take > more time as this card is quite different from the others. > > At the moment some people are testing the Beta 1 of our software > which includes the following functions: > - Watching, recording and reproducing TV-programmes or similar video > sources in MPEG1- and MPEG2 format > - Listening to, recording and reproducing radio programmes in > MPEG1/Layer2 format (of course only if the card contains a FM-tuner). > - Reproducing TV-recordings via the hardware-decoder of the PVR350. > This allows the output of MPEG1/2-Video-recordings on to an external > video-recorder. > - Support of the remote control which is supplied with the card > - Preset timed recording of TV and radio programmes. > > We hope that the first public release will happen in the near > future. I would not want, however, commit myself to a precise date. > > Cheers/2 > > Ed. > > *********************************************************************************** > > NOTE: If transfering this post to another Newslist - please include > the following text: > > This information was first posted on the OS2GENAU newslist at > www. - the Australian OS/2 portal. OS/2 alive and kicking > like a kangeroo down-under in Australia ! > Why not join the OS2GENAU list, simply go to > http://www.os2site.com/list/index.html to register ! > *********************************************************************************** > > > > > > Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site dot com/ "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality." -- George Bernard Shaw ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:36:34 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: 'TV & MPEG Video input to OS/2' > RESEND: (Corrected web references for Hauppauge cards underscore was > missing previously) > > > Nick from Perth and myself have been looking into what is available > for Video editing under OS/2. > > Some old products, or the cards they support, are no longer available, > so it's time for something new. > > Whether for video conferencing or to view TV or home videos or > to produce SVCDs or DVD Movies, OS/2 needs the capability of getting > video in to the system and compressed into MPEG. > > The product I have located is "Emperoar" which is a product from s&t > (http://www.s-t.de/) that was demonstrated at the recent European > "Warp-Weekend" event > http://OS2.mensys.nl/rwklein/warpweekend/index.html > > Here is a translation of the response I got to my enquiries: > > The main part of Emperoar consists of a so-called Personal Video > Recorder . The supported hardware are mainly the PCI-cards Hauppauge > WinTV PVR250 and PVR350. Please refer to: > http://www.hauppauge dot com/html/wintvpvr350_datasheet.htm > http://www.hauppauge dot com/html/wintvpvr250_datasheet.htm > http://www.hauppauge dot com/html/wintvpvr250mce_datasheet.htm > > There are a few less well known manufacturers in Asia who produce > cards with the same chip set (e.g. Yuan MPG160 or ProVideo PV256Pro). > These cards are supposed to work as well, but have not been tested. > > In the future we are planning to support the ATI eHome Wonder > (http://www.ati dot com/products/ehome/index.html). This will however take > more time as this card is quite different from the others. > > At the moment some people are testing the Beta 1 of our software > which includes the following functions: > - Watching, recording and reproducing TV-programmes or similar video > sources in MPEG1- and MPEG2 format > - Listening to, recording and reproducing radio programmes in > MPEG1/Layer2 format (of course only if the card contains a FM-tuner). > - Reproducing TV-recordings via the hardware-decoder of the PVR350. > This allows the output of MPEG1/2-Video-recordings on to an external > video-recorder. > - Support of the remote control which is supplied with the card > - Preset timed recording of TV and radio programmes. > > We hope that the first public release will happen in the near > future. I would not want, however, commit myself to a precise date. > > Cheers/2 > > Ed. > > **************************************************************************** > > NOTE: If transfering this post to another Newslist - please include > the following text: > > This information was first posted on the OS2GENAU newslist at > www. - the Australian OS/2 portal. OS/2 alive and kicking > like a kangeroo down-under in Australia ! > Why not join the OS2GENAU list, simply go to > http://www.os2site.com/list/index.html to register ! > **************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 22:52:25 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Cheap OS/2 compatible digital camera If anyone is interested. A Sydney importer is selling several EMPREX DSC 2200V digital still / short movie 2.1 / 3 (interpolated) MP cameras on eBAY Australia. They're going for prices between AUS$100 and AUS$175, depending upon how lucky you are with your bids. these are brand new cameras and while not the big name brand, construction seems reasonable for the price and most important to us - simply plug the USB cable into your OS/2 or eCS system with IBMs latest USB drivers installed and it sees the camera as a mass storage device and you are able to access the pictures (JPEG files) from OS/2. You can also delete the picture files you don't want just as if they were on your local disc. The camera also has NTSC/Video out for viewing pictures taken and can also shoot short "movies", work as a webcam (not under OS/2 yet) and takes the standard SD/MMC expansion memory card to add to its internal 8MB memory. Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 23:45:38 +1100 From: Daryl Pilkington Subject: Re: WS4eB: network applications et-al Thanks Graham, I'm using the IBM Co-ordinated logon client, what is the Camtaris client like? What makes it better than the IBM one? DOS box, yes I remember your accounting program, a good example of DOS working well. Still supported by Quock?, (apologies if the name is mispelt). Sounds like this could be a tricky one, will post my findings here once I find a solution. Graham Norton wrote: > Hi Daryl > > we have a W2000 client and have the German Log on software (Comtaris) which is stable and the machine sees the WSEB > box and has no issues... no need to reboot server > > As to the DOS issue - now I am not an expert in this but you may recall that we have an DOS accounting software and share it on > the Server and I have attempted to set up the DOS environment but it seems impossible ! > SNIP ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 7 ==========================** Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 23:50:57 +1100 From: Daryl Pilkington Subject: Re: WS4eB: network applications et-al Great Graham, Are you using InJoy Firewall at both ends? Alternatively are you using a hardware router with VPN at home & IJF at the office? Do you have WS4eB file-sharing between the office & home using the VPN? I'm using Smoothwall gateway, a cut-down version of Linux, installs in 15min. on a spare P100/32MB PC. Haven't setup the VPN side of it yet, though. What are you using for a http & DNS cache or don't you bother? Graham Norton wrote: > we now have VPN setup on the server and now that I have broad band at home, have the VPN via Injoy Firewall/gateway - > seems very stable ! > SNIP ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------