Windows XP and Netware --- UGH

[GCC Consulting]

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> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Nancy Palmquist
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 5:34 PM
> To: filePro List
> Subject: Windows XP and Netware --- UGH
> 
> Well I was hoping someone might give me a little help on this.
> 
> The system had had a number of Windows98 boxes changed to 
> WindowsXP in recent weeks.
> 
> We are getting errors on the XP's that read as follows:
> 
> A system error has occurred ****
> 
> Cannot access menu
> P:/fp/menus/PA: Error Number-1
> Windows Error #53
> the network path was not found.
> 
> Now the file does, indeed exist, and the path is correct.  We 
> get variations of the filename that it can not find but it is 
> always a network path was not found.
> 
> My idea is that it is using the FILES=100, FPFILES=80 logic 
> and on a WindowsXP.They are not setting the FPFILES variable 
> at all and the FILES default seems to be 40.  In the past if 
> that was exceeded we got a too many open files error from filePro.
> 
>   I guess the default is FILES=40, in the
> 
> /Windows/system32/config.nt
> 
> file.
> 
> Does anyone know if the Native32 version uses the settings in 
> config.nt and autoexec.nt?
> 
> The other part is that Netware is licensed by connection and 
> if we are exceeding the number of connections, might the 
> error look like that? 
> (Since we took out a Win98 and replaced with WinXP, would the 
> count of connections increase for the XP machines, otherwise 
> it should not only happen on the XP computers.)
> 
> 
Make sure that all users have read/write/change permission on the server. (I am
not good with Novel my associate handles those problems).

I had a problem similar to this with windows server 2003. I had to do this in a
fairly small shop.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting