Hello, NetWare pros:
I recently started a job for a NetWare 6.5 shop and I'm relatively inexperienced with the OS.
We have a server that used to host home directories for all students K-12. Recently, the box began to misbehave. It would first begin to run very slowly, then it wouldn't allow users to access resources, then it would stop responding to commands at the CLI. I didn't know of another way to bring it down other than to hold the power button. After it would come back up, I'd run dsrepair and get the time synced back up. I moved some of the student files over to a new server I built to spread the load, in case the troublesome box was overburdened.
Now, we have various files that we are unable to delete, either from a Windows workstation (CMD and Explorer) or from the server itself through nsninit/nsnshell. Windows says it "cannot read from the source file or disk" and NetWare just says it cannot delete it.
Have any of you run into this before? Are their any health checks/repairs I can run on the volumes if there are corruptions? Is it somehow possible to remove these "gunk" files?
Thanks in advance!
I recently started a job for a NetWare 6.5 shop and I'm relatively inexperienced with the OS.
We have a server that used to host home directories for all students K-12. Recently, the box began to misbehave. It would first begin to run very slowly, then it wouldn't allow users to access resources, then it would stop responding to commands at the CLI. I didn't know of another way to bring it down other than to hold the power button. After it would come back up, I'd run dsrepair and get the time synced back up. I moved some of the student files over to a new server I built to spread the load, in case the troublesome box was overburdened.
Now, we have various files that we are unable to delete, either from a Windows workstation (CMD and Explorer) or from the server itself through nsninit/nsnshell. Windows says it "cannot read from the source file or disk" and NetWare just says it cannot delete it.
Have any of you run into this before? Are their any health checks/repairs I can run on the volumes if there are corruptions? Is it somehow possible to remove these "gunk" files?
Thanks in advance!