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  • OES2018 to OES 23.4: Trustees defaulting to full access rights on nss volumes after upgrade

    I recently updated our standalone Server from OES 2018 SP3 to 24.3 using Media upgrade and online updates. After the update the effective trustee rights for users have become full access rights for the entire file system on our NSS volumes, regardless…

  • IPCServRequest errors in ncpcon.log

    Do we have a list somewhere of IPCServRequest errors? I'm seeing IPCServRequest clientErr=-4999 when running 'ncpcon connection' from a bash script, on just some connections I am tracing some very intermittent corruption issues, and there appears…

  • ERROR mapping NSS Volume, LOGIN-LGNWNT32-400

    Hello, My headache with the NCP/NSS continue. We have an off-site server running SLES 11 SP4. The purpose of this machine is to be used as a local file server for the people working in the office. Installed on it is eDirectory, NSS and all packages that…

  • ncp exclude ip addresses

    With NetWare there was a NCP setting to exclude an IP address from NCP traffic. Is there a similar setting in OES 2015? Need to add a second NIC on a OES 2015 server that will be bound to an IP address/network that has no other OES/eDir servers. This…

  • NCP volumes lost

    SLES 11 SP4 We are randomly running into an issue where users can no long reach mounted volumes. The only fix so far has been to totally restart the server, which is inconvenient and takes forever. Any suggestions? In the log file var/log/messages : Jan…

  • ncp volume directory listing

    I have several ncp volumes on an OES 11.2 server on suse 11.3 that when I connect to them the explorer window just keeps going. It will list each file/folder 1000's of times if just let it run. The properties / size does the same thing. This happens if…

  • I get an error -626 and ndsconfig returns a value of 78.

    Hello guys, Here is a brief summary of the network design. We have a School server in the Network A. The Main eDir is in a Network B. The school server to access the Main eDir goes through a DNAT configured on our firewall. During the different steps…

  • Bad performance using ncp mounts under Linux, using ncpfs

    Hi there, we are in process of migrating a few NFS mounts from one server to NCP. We want to set the same protocol for accessing our file system in all of our servers. But, we are discovering that the performance using NCP is poor thant using NFS. For…

  • NRM options suddenly missing on ALL SLES servers

    We use remote manager often to free file locks, and have about 5 SLES10 and 1 SLES11 servers. All of a sudden a few days ago, when any user logs in with their own account the only option we are presented with is the root file system with the option 'View…

  • NSS issues and can't do any administration

    Hello all, I hope this is not a re post, I have searched on the forum and Google and can not find anything and am in dire need of some help! I have a SLES 10 SP4, with OES 2 installed on it. It also runs Groupwise 2012. I have NSS setup and configured…

  • unknown error with NCP

    Since the last OES11 updates, i have the following error in logfile of 2 servers: adminus daemon: Error -672 from NCPLocalTreeName Can someone tell me the meaning of the message. i didn't find anything on novell support or forums.

  • Another Strange NSS problem

    I am not sure how to fully explain this... I have a NSS volume mounted at /srv/group which I can access via NCP or Samba (i.e. \\NCPNAME\GROUP or \\SMBNAME\GROUP) or from the server command line. I see all the same files regardless of which way I view…

  • Unable to copy from mapped NSS volume unless write enabled

    I am trying to setup a new SLES OES2 server. File permission on the old netware server were "everyone" r,f. Users were able to copy the folder. Duplicating the permissions on the new server the users are able to read and filescan however if they attempt…

  • Incoming NCP packets dropped.

    On a few Netware 6.5 SP5/6/7 servers at several locations within our global eDir tree we've been experiencing following console error message for few weeks: "Incoming NCP packets have been dropped due to IP fragmentation. NCP packets received are being…

  • tcp keep-alive packets on sles

    Question: Will setting the first_watchdog_packet to 5 on a SLES OES server cause it to send tcp keep-alive packets every five minutes (just as it does on a NetWare server)? If so, then why aren't my SLES servers sending out tcp keep-alive packets? If…

  • Savin copier no access cluster volume

    I have 10 Savin and Ricoh copiers and I am able scan documents to a cluster volume folder on Netware 6.5 sp 6 server. The logon is using NCP protocol. When the cluster volume is moved to another Netware server, I receive an error Cannot find specified…

  • Symlinks under NSS don't show up in client 32

    Hi, I've an NSS volume with bunch of symlinks created. These symlinks point to either: another file on the same NSS volume, or to another file on Linux (Reiser) volume, or to a file on mounted CIFS share. When I do "ls -l" on the linux console, these…

  • NCP connexion

    Hello, I use ncpmount to create a remote connexion. When i use ncpumount command, unmount works. So i see my NCP connexion in "Remote manager".I can see all my old connexion (made with ncpmount). Ncpumount don"t close connexion... and i close this manually…

  • Trying to start a second DNS server

    I have an existing Netware 6.5 SP8 DNS server running on our main server. I have another Netware 6.5 server that I would like to run as a second instance that can resolve when the other server is down. I added the DN-DHCP services to the second server…

  • Default to use CIFS instead of NCP for file access

    We currently run OES 1 with the NW kernel...essentially NW 6.5 with the latest SPs. For file access, we only support CIFS for file access. This is especially important as we utilise WAN acceleration devices that optimise CIFS traffic but the NCP optimisation…

  • NCP volumes not available due to ndsd failing

    Hello, We are getting intermittent problems with NCP volumes becoming unavailable due to ndsd stopping. If I restart ndsd the volumes become available again. I see in another thread someone recommends "Check in your /etc/nam.conf for preffered-server…

  • Reboot Hangs / unmounting volumes

    Hello Everyone, It seems when I use ncp to mount volumes, I can almost never get the machine to reboot. It will hang at the message "umounting filesystems" . I don't use ncp on most of our servers, but once in a while I will. Even if I unmount the filesystems…

  • Can't save files to NCP volume

    I have OES2 SP1 running on SLES 10 SP2 and have created a NCP volume. From a Windows client I can connect to the volume and can create directories. I can save files into the directories directly out of GroupWise but if I try and copy any files using windows…

  • Files Missing via Novell Client Appear via AFP

    I have a user who, creates and saves a file on a Windows XP PC with the latest Novell client, he then logs out. He then logs in again and cannot see the file on a Windows PC with the same Novell Client. However, he can see it on a Mac via AFP. This is…

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