Intermittent saving??

[charel]

Hi, We use Novell 4.11 with Client 2.5.0.0 and when a group login sometimes they are able to save to their drive, sometimes they get an "invalid file name" error, when everything looks valid.. their login script looks right, they have sufficient rights to the drive, and i'm not sure where to look next..
any ideas?

 

[Technochick]

Since you didn't specify what drives people are saving to(because I've known people to use there local drives to save their work instead of the network drive), I'm gong to assume it maybe a network problem otherwise its a Microsoft problem.

What type of file names are you using. when saving files you can't have any dashes or slashes in the names. At times in my company people try to save files using invalid file name characters ex.” financial reports 11/1/01". what they should have used is "financial reports 11-1-01".

If that's not the case, try running "vrepair" on the server. The long file name support funtion (if your using it) maybe corrupted.

 

[charel]

Yeah, they're trying to save to a network drive. They are trying to use long file names, but sometimes they work, and i tried saving test.doc which to me looks very valid, but i get this is not a valid filename error message.
But i just noticed when they log in and the login results window pops up, there is a drive mapping which doesn't exist in nwadmin, and thats just completely thrown me. The login in supposed to be:
MAP ROOT L:=SYDHB_BO_USER\GU\GS_GRP\RESERVATIONS (that could be a long name problem) but instead there is an error message for:
LOGIN-4.21.00-470: The specified drive mapping is an invalid path:
MAP ROOT L:=SYDHB_BO_USER\GU\GS_GRP\RESV
Now, there is a folder in the reservations folder called Resv, but nothing points it to the login script. Where is it coming from??
Any ideas greatly appreciated and thanks in advance..

 

[TheLad]

Try the following Novell TID for the saving problem, may be the cause:

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10022417.htm

As for your L: problem, check ALL container login scripts including the users login script. -----------------------------------------------------
"It's true, its damn true!"
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[yvfwc]

I believe there is a known problem with login scripts & long folder names although I cannot find it specifically. We had it a couple of years ago & simply changed the folder name to an 8.3 format which worked fine. Try this and see if applies:

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10023982.htm

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2930485.htm

Cheers,

Mark ;-)

 

[Technochick]

Check all container login scripts. your problem might be there.
If not and none of the suggestions listed above works, try installing the service pack 9 for NW411.

here's the link.

http://support.novell.com/servlet/tidfinder/2957945