I am still having a hard time setting up a QWK network.
What are the correct pack and unpack commands?
According to the documentation it should be:
%!pkzip %f %s
%!pkunzip -o %f %g %s
But there does not seem to be a copy of pkzip in any folders....I even tried downloading an old 204 ver and putting it in the c:\sbbs\exec folder with the zip.exe and unzip.exe.
I also found another pack and unpack commandline:
%@zip -jD %f %s
%@unzip -Coj %f %s -d %g
As my friend and I struggled with getting this setup last winter thru firewalls and port forwarding etc....decided to setup 2 win10 boxes locally.
I have 2x BBS's setup on seperate boxes one as a hub(BBS1) and one as a node(BBS2)
Still having issues.....
When I do a Force callout from BBS2 to BBS1 I get the following message in the terminal event screen on BBS2:
QNET Upload of C:\sbbs\data\DTOM.REP failed: Error: STOR DTOM.REP failed: 553 Invalid directory.
QNET Call-out to: DTOM returned 1
and the following in the FTP server log on BBS1:
<bbs2> !attempted to upload to invalid directory
I feel like it has to be something silly....just pulling my hair out (whats left of it)....Any help would be much appreciated. ;)
Re: QWK Network Issues
By: dogbreath to All on Sun Jan 01 2023 07:18 pm
As a node or as a hub?
That must be old/outdated documentation you're referring to (?).It is from:
In Synchronet v3.19+, ZIP file creation and extraaction support is built, so those can be blank. See https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dove-net for an example QWKnet node configuration.
Those are valid examples for Synchronet v3.18 and earlier, using Info-Zip (instead of PKZip), but like I said, with v3.19 and later, you don't need either.
Is "DTOM" the QWK-ID of "BBS2"? If not, then correct that.
Sounds like an incorrect QWK-ID setting.
Re: QWK Network Issues
By: dogbreath to All on Sun Jan 01 2023 07:18 pm
As a node or as a hub?
Both.....BBS1 would be hub....BBS2 would be node.
At some point though....I would imagine BBS1 would be a hub and a node.
That must be old/outdated documentation you're referring to (?).It is from:
file:///C:/sbbs/docs/networking.html
In Synchronet v3.19+, ZIP file creation and extraaction support is built, so those can be blank. See https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dove-net for an example QWKnet node configuration.
Those are valid examples for Synchronet v3.18 and earlier, using Info-Zip (instead of PKZip), but like I said, with v3.19 and later, you don't need either.
Is "DTOM" the QWK-ID of "BBS2"? If not, then correct that.
Sounds like an incorrect QWK-ID setting.
Yup....since then have reinstalled again using setup.exe from sbbs319b.zip.....which wiped out all the message groups and Network settings. The QWK-ID settings seem to be good as I can see the FTP server connecting when I force a call out.
BBS2 forced callout to BBS1:
FTP log on BBS1 shows:
1/2 01:10:00p 2428 <bbs2> logged in (14 today, 37 total)
1/2 01:10:00p 2428 <bbs2> PASV DATA IP address in response: 192.168.86.132 (subject to NAT)
1/2 01:10:00p 2428 <bbs2> !attempted to upload to invalid directory
Just a side note....when I telnet into BBS1 as a new user...I don't get the prompt:
"Is this account to be used for QWK Networking (DOVE-Net)?"
Again, I think yoiu have the hub's QWK-ID configured wrong in SCFG->Networks.
That's expected, unless you set [newuser] ask_qnet=true in your ctrl/modopts.ini file:
Again, I think yoiu have the hub's QWK-ID configured wrong in SCFG->Networks.
You were correct on that one ;)
That's expected, unless you set [newuser] ask_qnet=true in your ctrl/modopts.ini file:
Changed that...now it works.
Getting the following ion the ftp log:
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1/3 10:44:11p QNET Call-out: BBS1
1/3 10:44:11p QNET Downloading QWK Packet: BBS1.qwk
1/3 10:44:14p QNET Downloaded BBS1.qwk (1.0KB) successfully
1/3 10:44:14p QNET Done.
1/3 10:44:14p QNET Call-out to: BBS1 returned 0
1/3 10:44:16p QNET Importing QWK Network Packet: C:\sbbs\data\BBS1.qwk
1/3 10:44:16p QNET !Message from BBS1 on UNKNOWN QWK CONFERENCE NUMBER: 7002 1/3 10:44:16p QNET Finished Importing QWK Network Packet from BBS1: (0 msgs) in 1 seconds (0 msgs/sec), 1 errors, 0 dupes
1/3 10:44:16p QNET C:\sbbs\data\BBS1.qwk renamed to C:\sbbs\data\BBS1.qwk.63b4f610.bad
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Checked the conference #'s on both BBS's they were set to dynamic in the message groups....changed them to static....still the same error message.
Did a lot of reading on the wiki....did not find anything indicating what might be making the bad packets.
Any ideas?
Yes, the conference numbers set in the node's SCFG->Networks->QWK->Hubs->yourhub->Subs *must* match the conference numbers on yourhub's SCFG->Message Areas.
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