Part of NS/3000 is included with FOS (the FTP and other ARPA services) but
the full-blown NS/3000 is a separate product which costs about $19,500 for
unlimited user license. I always thought the price was too steep!

Pat Sarkar

-----Original Message-----
From: Russ Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 8:10 PM
Subject: NS3000


>A few weeks back we submitted a question about using DSCOPY to copy PRIV
>files from one HP3000 to another and got some very good feed back on how to
>do that. Thank you. Anyway, we tried to do the copy as it was explained. It
>turns out that our HP987 has NFT and our HP937 does not. At the time we
were
>running MPE/iX 5.0 on the 937 and 5.5 on the 987. We thought that was the
>problem, so we upgraded to 5.5 on the 937. Still no luck.
>
>Does anyone know if  NS3000/iX must be purchased (all or part) or is it
part
>of FOS? By the way we purchased the 987 used with 5.5 preinstalled so I am
>not sure how it was installed that machine.
>
>If it is included, is there some special trick to get it installed on our
>937? Below is the differences in our two systems using NSCONTROL
>STATUS=SERVICES command.
>
>
>:nscontrol status=services
>
>SERVICE TYPE SERVER DESCRIPTION
>
>SERVICE STARTED FEATURES (This is our 937 - Missing NFT)
>-----------------------------------------------
>SIASQL YES
>VTA YES
>HPIP YES
>IASQL YES
>NSSTATL YES
>NSSTAT YES
>LOOPBACK YES
>RPML YES
>RPM YES AUTOLOGON ON
>VT YES
>
>
>SERVICE STARTED FEATURES (This is our 987 - Notice NFT which is required to
>us DSCOPY)
>------------------------------------------------
>SIASQL YES
>VTA YES
>HPIP YES
>IASQL YES
>NSSTATL YES
>NSSTAT YES
>HCS YES
>LOOPBACK YES
>RPML YES
>RPM YES AUTOLOGON ON
>PTOPL YES
>PTOP YES
>RFAL YES
>RFA YES AUTOLOGON ON
>NFTL YES
>NFT YES AUTOLOGON ON
>VTRL YES
>VTR YES
>VTL YES
>VT YES
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Russ Johnson
>HMA, Inc.
>Cottonwood, Az
>