SCO OpenServer Features and Limitations

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: New features
  • Additional products and components
  • Development system
    • Changes to C compiler and linker
    • New high-precision system clock
    • New strlcpy, strlcat
    • Enhancements to file(C)
    • Autoerase capability for tty
    • Support for UnixWare 7 packaging tools
    • Updated documentation
    • UDK and OSRcompat module
    • Developing device drivers
  • Documentation
  • Hardware support
    • UltraDMA support
    • Wheel mice
    • Mass storage devices
    • Support for disk drives over 8.5GB
    • Support for DVD
    • New network adapter drivers
    • New graphics adapter drivers
    • Flat panel digital monitor support
    • VESA VBE 3.0
    • Modem support
    • Improved Serial Manager
  • Installation and Licensing
    • In-place upgrades
    • Network installation
  • SCO Internet Services
  • Mail
    • sendmail
    • MMDF
  • Networking
    • Morning Star PPP updated
    • Improved PPP configuration
    • IP Filter with NAT
    • Protection from SYN flood attacks
    • Sample resolv.conf file
    • DNS and WINS server address negotiation
    • MSCHAP V1
  • Security
  • System administration
  • System software
    • New console driver
    • New pkgadd subsystem
    • New high-precision system clock
    • Support for Euro currency symbol
    • Displaying login licenses in use
    • Printing selected pages
    • Enhancements to ping command
    • Enhancements to df command
    • New recon command
  • Year 2000
• Chapter 2: Commands, system software, and graphical environment: limitations and workarounds
  • Commands
  • Documentation
    • Online help
    • Documentation errata
  • Files and filesystems
    • Filesystems
    • File size
    • File versioning and directories
  • Graphical Environment
    • X server and graphics adapters
    • Desktop
    • SCO Panner window manager
    • Graphical Environment utilities
  • Localization
    • Setting the system locale
  • Mail
    • scomail
  • System administration and configuration
    • SSO_GetSegmentRootPath support no longer in /bin/tcl
    • rcmd and rlogin appear to not work after setting up .rhosts file
    • SMP license count
    • k_trap warning
    • Group permissions for licensed products
    • SCOadmin
    • SCO Visual Tcl
    • SCODB
    • Security database file removal
    • Asynchronous Input/Output (AIO)
  • System startup and shutdown
• Chapter 3: Networking: limitations and workarounds
  • Client timeouts might require reboot
  • Non-SCO LLI driver compatibility
  • TCP/IP
  • SCO Gateway for NetWare
    • Printing NetWare files on SCO Gateway for NetWare printers
    • Printing to Altos NetWare for UNIX servers
    • Undefined symbols appear when trying to load NLMs on NetWare 3.11 server
    • NLMs may allow unauthorized access to files
    • NLMs may prevent access to directory
    • nwlogin/nwlogout fail if login connection is lost when SCO Gateway for NetWare is in use
    • Help button does not work for adding remote NetWare printer
    • Locale for NetWare auto-login window
  • IPX/SPX
  • NFS
    • Unmounting an inoperative remote filesystem
    • Invalid NFS client credential errors
    • Printing with pcnfs
    • NFS and symbolic links
    • Delayed errors from write() operations
    • Swapping to a file in an NFS mounted filesystem
    • Mounting local filesystems using NFS
    • lp -- remote printing failing
    • NFS -- defect when flushing memory-mapped files
    • Multi-user locking problems with ISAM
  • NIS
    • Cannot push NIS map to slave server
    • Cannot distribute home directory with Account Manager
    • Using rmuser with NIS
    • NIS passwords
    • NIS security
    • Inability to change password
    • Simultaneous password changes to distributed accounts
  • Network and remote printing
• Chapter 4: Internet Services limitations and workarounds
  • Internet Services system configuration limitations
  • Internet Services software limitations
    • Internet Manager limitations and workarounds
    • Netscape FastTrack limitations and workarounds
    • Netscape Communicator limitations and workarounds
• Chapter 5: Development system: limitations and workarounds
  • Custom Distribution Mastering Toolkit
  • Development System Release Note updates
• Appendix A: Supported mass storage devices
• Appendix B: Supported network adapters
  • Supported network adapters by manufacturer
  • Supported network adapters by media and bus type
• Appendix C: Supported video adapters
  • Graphics devices removed from SCO OpenServer