                               NETGLASS
                       Copyright (c) 1996 Emil Totev

NETGLASS is an useful utility for NetWare users, and especially for NetWare
administarators. Its most important features are:

1. It lets you view connected workstations by a descriptive name that you
   assign based on their unique network addresses, so you are able to see from
   which station a user is logged-in. Your descriptive names will be read from
   an ANSI text file, which must be in the directory of the .EXE file and must
   have the same name with extension .DAT. If you don't rename the executable,
   it's NETGLASS.DAT. Each line in the file must be in the format
   network_address=description,
   where network address is 12 digit hexadecimal network adress as shown by
   the program or returned by USERLIST /A. (No spaces and all uppercase.) If
   this file is not found, and for any workstations that are not listed there, 
   the program displays the hexadecimal network addresses in the "Station" column.

2. If you have console operator privileges, you can see the files opened on
   the server by each connection, so you know who's working on what. This list 
   can be dynamically updated every 5 seconds.

3. You can send messages to users by picking-up them from the list. I believe
   you'll apreciate that if you are already using Windows 95 with its built-in
   NetWare client.

You can view different servers on the network, but you must be attached to
them. You can also see Windows 95 peer servers, but the "View open files"
fuunction returns an error. Open files on Windows 95 servers can be viewed
with Microsoft NetWatcher.

NETWARE 4 NOTES:
NetWare 4.10 does not return the proper number for maximum available connections,
but instead returns the number of maximum simultaneous connections reached during
the server up-time. As a result, the 'available connections' number may be greater
 than the licenses of the server allow, since it counts there variuos non-licensed connections. (e.g. the NOT-LOGGED-IN, server-to-server connections etc.) 
This is caused by the nature of NetWare 4, not by NetGlass.

Another problem, coming with NetWare 4 is the definition of 'console operator'.
You can add your user or group to the NetWare Server object 'Operator'
property, but as Novell say, 'This list is for your reference only and
doesn't affect who can use the object.' The only working solutions I found
was to make myself a trustee of the server object with 'supervisor' object
right. Note however that this means supervisory rights to the whole file
system on this server, and that may be unacceptable for security reasons.
If you have a better solution, please let me know.

WARNING: I have not used any official Novell technical documentation,
so this program is provided AS IS. You can use it entirely AT YOUR OWN RISK.
If it will make you feel better, I myself have been using it at the same risk
for two years with no problems.

INSTALLATION: 
No special installation is necessary. Just copy the file somewhere and create the 'NETGLASS.DAT' file in the same directory.

DISTRIBUTION: 
The program can be freely used and distributed, as long as the copyright notice
remains and only in the original ZIP file you downloaded. If you like the program
and start using it regularly, please send me an e-mail!

CONTACT: 
If you have any questions, suggestions, as well as information that may
help implement them, please contact the author, Emil Totev at emilt@unacs.bg
You may also want to look at the author's home page, http://www.unacs.bg/emilt
