Losing Drive mappings to a Novell server

[TOuellette]

I am running Windows server 2000 on a DellGX620 simply being used as a gateway for non Novell useres to access Novell Network drives. My problem is the drive mappings about 2 times a week delete from the GX620, keep in mind no reboot has happened. The only thing i notice is in the Event Viewer, error is as follows;

Source: Svc Event ID: 2000
The server's call to a system service failed unexpectedly. Viewing by "words"
0000: 00040000 00540001 00000000 c00007d0
0010: 00000000 c000000f 00000000 00000000
0020: 00000000 00000000 05290328

Any Ideas if the 2 are even related?

 

[LawnBoy]

How are you creating this mapping? From Windows utilities, Netware utilities, windows login script, or Netware login script? Or are you trying to run this mapping as a service?

Windows will create a netbios mapping, Netware will create an NCP mapping.

I would recommend doing it from the Netware login script. If your problem is being caused by a network hiccup, Netware does a much better job of reconnecting any NCP channels that were in use.

 

[TOuellette]

Here is what we have going on. I have a Novell Server with all the shared drives on it. Most of my user's log on using a Netware login and have Netware logon scripts to map the drives. this works great!...

I have some sattelite offices that for other reasons can not use the novell client and are on a seperate network scheme; but still need access to some drives on the Novell server...
Therefore i created this GX620 running Win2K server as well as a Novell Client. On this system i have NCP mappings to my Novell Server.

In order to give these Sattelite offices access to the drives on my Novell Server i put those users in an Active Directory group and created a Windows Logon script to map them through the GX620(basically a gateway into Novell), which in turn maps to the Novell Server.

I hope i explained this well enough for you.

Thanks

 

[TOuellette]

P.S. The mapping(s) i am losing are from the GX620 to the Novell Server, which was created using netware utilities.

 

[LawnBoy]

Odd. Which version of Netware client? If NMAS is enabled on the client, turn it off. You should only need the Novell client for Windows and NICI.

Is this a pure IP environment?

 

[TOuellette]

Novell Client ver 4.83 w/SP2

NMAS was enabled , i will try disabling that and see if it will make a difference.

Also we are using both IPX and IP; IPX on our server side,IP for all of our clients.

Thanks again!

 

[LawnBoy]

If still no joy, try a newer client. I'm not well versed in IPX, but there's some guys in the Netware 5 forum on Tek-Tips who are. IPX was great in it's day but is pretty dated now.

Since your clients are IP, and this Win box is basically acting as a client, you could try turning off IPX on the Win box and see if IP only is more stable.