Problems accessing files on netware drives

[tfrost]

I have just installed an Intranetware 4.11 server with 2 win95 and two win 3.1 pc's attached to the server. The Win95 users have no problems. The Win 3.1 pc's periodically can't open word files on their home directories. You can view the files and select them but an error message tells you that the file can't be accessed(It shows the location H:\word\...). Meanwhile, their printer connection fails and trying to reconnect it results in an error message "insufficient rights to this object." Rebooting the PC's will solve the problem. The problem is intermittent. I installed two new Win98 PC's with different NIC's and the latest Client 3.0 from Novell's website. Still a problem. The 4.11 server is running Frame type 802.2 and I believe has the latest patches. Help.

 

[6pack]

A little confused. The win95 stations work, the win3.1 stations sometimes fail and the win98 stations also sometimes fail. Is this correct??? Are you running Zenworks and need the latest client? It seemed that v2.2 was a pretty strong client with minimum problems for win95 and win3.1. v3.00 has a fair amount of problems with win98. The latest is actually v3.02 which Novell "says" has solved most of the win98 problems but some of the win98 problems have to be corrected by Microsoft updates. To get v3.02, you have to Find file - w95302.exe. For some reason they don't list it in the client updates??? Might want to spend some time on Novell's support site looking at client 98 TIDs.

 

[sas]

Well- There might be several reasons for that. If u use Off97', there are many problems with Netware access to files. Do you have am anti-virus running an agent on the server ? Do you have LongNameSpace (long.nam/os2.nam) added to the volume ? Do you have temp files folder defined as a remote drive ? <br>
All this information is important.<br>

 

[tfrost]

I'll try to answer both responses at once. We were running Office 97 on the two Win95 PC's and just Word 97 on the Win98 PC's. No anti-virus software is running on the Netware server. The office manager loaded Dr. Solomon anti-virus in all of the workstations.(without my recommendation) LongNameSpace is not running on the volume and there are no temp file folder defined on remote drives. All of the netware clients were upgraded to V3.01(downloaded the w9530e.exe file). Our problem had spread to all of the PC's on the network. The Compaq Prolinea server had a Compaq Netelligent 10/100 NIC (the ones that are really an Intel card with the Compaq name and probably a Compaq tweak).Using a Compaq driver didn't work, so we used the e100bodi driver from Intel. We were suspcicious of this card and replaced it with an old-school 3c509b NIC (with 3c5x9.lan driver). Our problem seems to have disappeared completely since we made that change last Friday, Jan 22nd.

 

[6pack]

Wow, probably would have been found earlier if you had some type of packet reader and decoder. I've found that most of these type of problems can be solved quicker if you have a way to capture packets off the wire and analyze them. In your case, there were probably lots of simply bad packets....