Windows XP and Netware --- UGH

[Kenneth Brody]

Nancy Palmquist wrote:
> 
> 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.

Note that error 53 ("network path not found") is different from
error 3 ("path 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?

filePro neither knows nor cares about anything called "config.nt" and
"autoexec.nt".  The question is not whether filePro uses them, but
whether Windows uses them.

In any case, I would have to check if the Windows version uses PFFILES,
as the 20 file limit was a DOS thing.

> 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.)

Since the error is specifically network-related, I would start looking
there.  If you copy things locally and point PFPROG there, do you get
the error?

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