Have a strange issue that I've neve

[gromit01904]

Have a strange issue that I've never seen before with NW6, sp2. I had a user logged into a workstation that is now no longer working, so I gave him a replacement PC. The server has been rebooted a few times since this all took place. I have for some reason had to increase the number of active logins allowed for this user to 4 because he can't get in when it's anything less. I checked active connections for the username, and there were none, yet when he logged in he was told he was trying to log in too many times. Interestingly enough, I executed an nlist user /a command, and I see three connections for this user, all with his old workstation NIC address. If he's logged in when I execute the command, I will see four connections, the three old ones and his current connection. Anybody know why the old connections never cleared out, and how to clear them out? They should be long gone by now.

 

[sinwes]

Load Monitor on the server console. Choose Connections. Clear (hit Delete) the connections.

 

[gromit01904]

I probably didn't make myself clear--the used connections do not show up in monitor at all. But they for some reason show up if I run NLIST USER /A from a command prompt.
That's what's strange. The user was trying to log in and was being told they were trying to log in too many times, BUT when you looked at console monitor there were no active connections and only one NLIs for the user's workstation. I was stumped as to why they could not get in as clearly they were not showing up as logged in. When they are totally logget out, there are no active connetions for them via console monitor and no NLI's for their workstation, yet NLIST USER /A does show two connections for them. So I had to bump up their allowed connections to the two mysterious connections plus one. But (a) how come those connections are hanging around and (b) how to get rid of them? The server has been reboote a few times since I had first discovered them, and they are still there. Is this an NDS issues or something else that needs to be repaired?

 

[jsamples]

Try running "dsrepair -n1 -u" to clear all unused connections older than 1 day. I have this set up as an event that runs daily just to help clear things out.

 

[gromit01904]

Hey jsamples,

Thanks very much for that tip--it worked! Never in all my years with Novell have I had to do that one. Always run DSRepair with regular maintenance, but it never reported any errors.

thanks again!

Gromit