Windows XP and Netware --- UGH

[Nancy Palmquist]

Robert Haussmann 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.
> 
> 
> Nancy--first and foremost, can you supply the following:
> 	1) version of netware (including service pack level)
> 	2) version of client (including service pack)
> 
> I've seen this error on very early versions of the client for
> netware services, as well as some *very* specific client/OS 
> combinations (specific to the type of network card in the
> server).
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
>>Does anyone know if the Native32 version uses the settings in 
>>config.nt 
>>and autoexec.nt?
>>
> 
> 
> We haven't had to set the files/buffers since the 95/98 days.  I
> believe these are dynamically allocated in 2000/XP.
> 
> 
>>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.)
>>
> 
> 
> A license error would *not* look like this.  Instead, you would
> never get the drive mapping.
> 
> Is the error sporadic?  If so, after it occurs, can you get
> to the drive where the filePro files are stored?  (e.g., if you
> have F: mapped to the server, after the error occurs, can you
> still browse to the F: drive?)
Bob,

Your suggestions had us looking for service pack installations.  We 
found that one is available for the client.

A service pack 4.9 for the client is currently being installed on all XP 
boxes.

It looks to improve the network performance.

After the error occurred, a quick look with the browser indicated that 
the drive was still mounted and browsable.

One such error locked an entire file for the time it took to resolve to 
the error message. (About 4 minutes)

We are hopeful the service pack is the solution so we will be waiting to 
see if there is any difference before changing anything else.

I will have version numbers and such if the service pack does not solve 
the problem.

Thank you as always for the suggestions.
-- 
Nancy Palmquist
Virtual Software Systems
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