Well, it works when I run VMS 4.4 and DECnet 4.0 so I must have something wrong with the licenses under 5.4. I do have the VAX-VMS and DVNETRTG licenses installed under 5.4 so I was expecting it to work. Back to the drawing board I guess.
Thank y'all for responding with suggestions. - Peter On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM Antonio Carlini via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > On 02/12/2025 00:38, Wayne S via cctalk wrote: > > Decnet needed a license. > > I think that probably the license manager is called as part of running > any licensed product before you can do anything. > > If you want to verify that it’s a licensing issue run a version of VMS > before V5 and install Decnet. Licensing enforcement came out with version > five so anything before that is not enforced. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > On Dec 1, 2025, at 16:18, Peter Ekstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > It doesn't specify the symbols, just states some or missing. > > > > But I ran netconfig.com<http://netconfig.com> and specified the name > and decnet address and specified end-node. > > When I run startnet I get the following (I ran this manually but got it > from the startnet.com<http://startnet.com> script): > > > > NCP>set known circuit all > > %NCP-W-OPEFAI, Operation failure > > Circuit = SVA-0 > > %SYSTEM-F-NOLICENSE, operation requires software license > > > > What license is needed for circuits? > > > > - Peter > > > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM Wayne S <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> wrote: > > What symbols? Can you show some here? > > Maybe you have the wrong install script? > > Sent from my iPhone > > Firstly V5 checked the kernel considerably so anything tied deeply to it > (like DECnet) would need a new version, the V4.x stuff wouldn't work at > all. Although with DECnet, as has been pointed out that shipped with VMS. > > From V5.0 onwards you would need a PAK (licence PAK). You need one for > VMS too, but it at least lets you log in once or maybe twice, so that > you can enter the required licence PAK(s). > For DECnet you get (IIRC) nothing without a licence PAK. Same for > clustering and volume shadowing. > > So you are probably missing just a licence PAK for DECnet. > > Before V5 most things just ran, but both VMS and DECnet had licence > tapes that increased the number of users allowed (in the case of VMS) or > allowed DECnet functionality (in the case of DECnet). > > So even with V4 you had to do something extra to get DECnet running. > > > Antonio > > > > -- > Antonio Carlini > [email protected] > >
