On Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 12:18:29 PM UTC-5, g00r00 wrote:
> te> However, this doesn't appear to be automatic? In the Mystic documentation
>  te> (Mystic BBS Sysop Documentation - By James Coyle), it mentions under the
>  te> section "Installing Multiple Nodes of Mystic BBS", "Load EACH node you
>  te> wish to setup in local mode" (
>  te> Example mystic -N2 -L).
> 
> If you see that then you are reading the documentation from the DOS version
> from the mid 1990s.
> 
> For documentation the wiki and YouTube (search MysticGuy) are good places to
> go as well as asking here of course.  fsxNet is where most of the action is
> regarding Mystic discussion these days but there are people all over who will
> try to help you.
> 
> Here is some informatino from the Wiki:
> 
> Q: How do I configure the number of nodes Mystic will accept?
> A: The first step is to set the "Max BBS Nodes" in your System Configuration
>
>   Servers > General Options section in the configuration.  This defines the
>   max number of nodes you will allow at one time.  However, there is slightly
>   more to consider.
>   
>   BBS Nodes can be spawned by any number of built in Mystic servers, or also
>   from external sources for things such as dial-up modems, local logins from
>   the console, etc.  The max BBS nodes is a limit to the sum of all possible
>   ways Mystic can accept BBS node connections.
>   
>   In the Servers > Configure servers configuration you will see options to
>   modify or create TELNET, RLogin, and SSH servers.  You can create any
number
>   of these servers on any ports, and each one can have a limit of the number
of
>   connections they will accept.  If you want to have 20 nodes but 3 of them
>   available by SSH and 17 by Telnet, you would configure a Telnet server for
>   17 max connections and a SSH server for 3 max connections and set your Max
>   BBS nodes to 20 or more.
>   
>   The settings do not have to add up to Max BBS nodes.  If all BBS nodes are
>   busy when a user connects, the user will simply be displayed a message
>   informing them that all nodes are busy.  This means you can setup a 20 node
>   BBS and then set up 3 different Telnet server and a SSH server all of which
>   each allow 20 connections, and Mystic will allow any combination to fill up
>   the BBS nodes.

Thank you! The documentation I was referring to was written in 2014 and comes
with the latest Mystic download 1.12a36 (/mystic/docs/ folder). So just to
clarify, I don't need to execute/load mystic for each node (i.e. mystic -N2 -l)
 as cut/shown in the 
section below:

     "How to setup Mystic BBS to run Multi-node:

         (1) Load Mystic BBS and enter "System Configuration".  From there
             select "General Settings".  Set the "Max # of Nodes" option
             to the maximum number of incoming nodes that you plan on
             loading.  Exit Mystic BBS.

         (2) Load EACH node you wish to setup in local mode.  This can be
             done by running Mystic BBS with the -Nx and -L command lines.
             For example, the command line for loading node 2 in local mode
             would be: "-N2 -L".

             Enter "System Configuration" and select "Modem/Node Settings".
             You will need to setup each node so it finds the correct modem.

     You're done!  That's it.  The only difference in your setup will be
     that you MUST specify the node number now when loading your BBS. This
     is done with the "-N" command line option.

     So loading your BBS would work something like this:

          (1) Create new DOS task.
          (2) Load Mystic BBS with -Nx option.
          (3) Repeat for each node."

Thanks again,
Terry

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