Novell Client Windows 95/98

[tonymullen]

Hi, I hope somebody can point me in the right direction.

We have been running Novell 6 for several weeks now without anyproblems. However this morning all of our users that are running either windows 95 or 98 cannot log on. It is not their profile as I can log on to other workstations but not theirs. It comes back with the very helpful error message of "an unexpected error has occurred" followed by a hex number that appears to change (memory address?)

All of our windows 2000/xp clients work OK it is just the older machines. Any help much appreciated.

Tony

 

[tonymullen]

Have got around this issue by upgrading all of my old windows 95/98 users to XP but would still be interested to hear if anyone else has come across this problem as it has got me totally baffled.

Tony

 

[tcstudio]

Which version of the client are you using? Is your network totally IP or do you use both IP and IPX. If you use both is the client using true IPX or IP compatibility mode.

 

[terrenceemmanuel]

I had the same problem with our user. I solved it by changing the IP address.

 

[tonymullen]

thanks for the replies

Until recently we were running Novell 4.11 purely on IPX. I installed the Novell 6 server and the clients continued to use IPX. As this was working I have not seen the need to change it.

I did try connecting to the server using just the ip address from one of the problem PCs but still no joy.

Changing the IP address would cause too many problems as I have set up all of the printers using IP and given access across our VPN to other sites.

Still very confused as to why it just stopped working, but I suppose it did force me to finish our windows upgrades on the clients.

 

[tcstudio]

We had a similar problem which only happened to machine with very old 3Com network cards. So we simply changed the cards and re-installed the drivers and all worked fine. I Think removing the drivers and re-installing them as though the card has just been placed in the machine will fix this.