I have 3 NetWare 6sp3 servers that various users have drive mapings to different directories. Some uses have mappings to directories on all three servers.
Clients are 483sp2 or 490.
OK, SOME clients are starting up and at the Login Script, are saying it cannot find one of the servers. IT is the same server each time on the same clients. I checked the server and everything "Looks" ok. Once the client ok's the error, and gets past the login script, the user is able to right click on the red 'N' in the system tray and go-back to Novell Login, re-login, and this time the script will go without any problems.
Map Root N:=Server/vol\:directory
Above is the line in the script I'm using to map the servers. Has worked for long time, just recently it has stopped.
Just a note to add, one of the servers is a GroupWise 65 server. And I have also been having trouble with TCP/IP Read Errs. NO error code, just errors accumulating in the SMTP screen thru-out the day until GWIA shuts down for backup. This is NOT the same server which is having the login trouble, but I thought I would mention this fact.
I have checked the switchs and made sure spanning tree was turned off. The servers are New Dell servers which were migrated from old Dell's. The new servers have Gigabyte NIC's, going to a Dell Gigabyte Switch, then out to the Cisco switch's to the users workstations. NO LOOPS.
The Gigabte NIC's don't have a Force full Duplex mode, and my Cisco Switches gigabyte uplink ports don't have Force full duplex either. But I'm not totally convinced this is the problem, because as far as the login issue goes, two of the three servers consistantly are recognized by the login scrips without issue. Just the one server, which it's function is NDPS, and file server for a specific application.
Well that's the scoop. Really appreciate if anyone has any ideas on what I'm forgetting here. What i've done in the interm is in the script for the problem server, instead of using the server name, I replace with server IP. seems to fix the issue for now. But strange how this is happening all-of-a-sudden.
Clients are 483sp2 or 490.
OK, SOME clients are starting up and at the Login Script, are saying it cannot find one of the servers. IT is the same server each time on the same clients. I checked the server and everything "Looks" ok. Once the client ok's the error, and gets past the login script, the user is able to right click on the red 'N' in the system tray and go-back to Novell Login, re-login, and this time the script will go without any problems.
Map Root N:=Server/vol\:directory
Above is the line in the script I'm using to map the servers. Has worked for long time, just recently it has stopped.
Just a note to add, one of the servers is a GroupWise 65 server. And I have also been having trouble with TCP/IP Read Errs. NO error code, just errors accumulating in the SMTP screen thru-out the day until GWIA shuts down for backup. This is NOT the same server which is having the login trouble, but I thought I would mention this fact.
I have checked the switchs and made sure spanning tree was turned off. The servers are New Dell servers which were migrated from old Dell's. The new servers have Gigabyte NIC's, going to a Dell Gigabyte Switch, then out to the Cisco switch's to the users workstations. NO LOOPS.
The Gigabte NIC's don't have a Force full Duplex mode, and my Cisco Switches gigabyte uplink ports don't have Force full duplex either. But I'm not totally convinced this is the problem, because as far as the login issue goes, two of the three servers consistantly are recognized by the login scrips without issue. Just the one server, which it's function is NDPS, and file server for a specific application.
Well that's the scoop. Really appreciate if anyone has any ideas on what I'm forgetting here. What i've done in the interm is in the script for the problem server, instead of using the server name, I replace with server IP. seems to fix the issue for now. But strange how this is happening all-of-a-sudden.
