NDS replica Problem

[Guest_imported]

I am having a problem where I ran an nds repair on a server which was giving me "synthetic time is being issued".

Two problems:
1. The print server on which I did the ds repair was not working today: no users could print. I tried a ds local database repair and now the server reports it cannot open the local database.

2. May or may not be related:
Today I noticed that the various replicas are not synchronizing with each other (we have 7 rw replicas on 7 servers). I an not sure when this occured, but in tryng to work around (1) I wanted to assign the users to another printer and I could not give them user rights to the queue.
Running Dsrepair on the various servers gives 603 and 614 errors.

What can I do to get the replicas synchronizing again?

 

[tlcscousin]

I am just taking a course on NetWare 4.11 so take the advice I am about to give with a grain of salt but if you have only 7 servers and all are running read/write replicas one of them has to be a master.This could explain synchronization problems.

 

[TheBoySmith]

Going to need a whole lot more info about this one.

Which server is Master?
Are all the other servers Read/Write replicas?

Sounds like a schema problem. Try a dsrepair, advnaced options, Repair local ds. Select rebuild operational schema and run until clear, save reapired database anb exit dsrepair.(Run on master, then on each server)

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks for the responses. I ended up opening an incident with Novell. I had to remove all servers but the master from the replica ring, delete the read/write replicas on each of the servers except the master, and add the replicas back to the other servers. Then we spent a day clearing up some individual user problems which were in the master replica.