From: "Glenn A" 
Subject: Re: HELP with intermittent lockups
Date: 1999/10/15
Message-ID: #1/1
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Organization: iPass.Net
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 17:06:00 EDT
Newsgroups: at.novell,fido.novell

After a few test I have decided the problem lies in the discview software
that controls the procom cd server.
As a test I remed the discport command in the autoexec.ncf, downed the
server,  powered off the procom tower, and restarted the server.   All ran
great for a day and 1/2.   I then reconnected the procom cd server and
started the discport software on the server.  All is well.  Now, it is time
to mount a new cdrom.  while trying to mount the cd  discview can not find
it.  Discview will loose all the cd's in the tower if I refresh.  After I
get the cd's mounted and mapped, about 10 min. later the clients can login.
The win95 stations freeze and the only way to correct the problem is to down
the server and bring it back up.  It I don't do anything else all the cd's
mount and all is well until I try to use discview.



Glenn A  wrote in message
news:dK7N3.561$A3.911@news.ipass.net...
> I too have these problems.  IBM Netfinity 5000, Raid5, Sisco Switches:
> For no reason I can find all at once the users can not log in, work
stations
> freeze, and all stops.  When the login problem starts, I can't kill
> connections at the console because when I try, monitor freezes.  After
that
> if I try to down the server, it gets to the point of notifing stations and
> then the only way out is to turn off the power.  Reboot the server and all
> is well for  who knows how long.
>
> This is happening on four servers at four locations.  The only common is
> that all four have a discview cd server attachached.  Other servers in the
> system don't have this problem.
>
> As a test I disonnected the cd server on one server.  After a reboot all
> went well for about 2 hours.  Then the same problem.
>
>
>
>
> Herman  wrote in message
> news:s071f78rbhk73@corp.supernews.com...
> > We have:
> > -Netware 4.11
> > -100mbit card in the server
> > -3com ss2 24 port full switched 10/100 hub
> > -workstations with a mix of older 10 and newer 10/100 3com cards
> > -win 95
> > sporadically and without any apparent commonality i.e time of day, 100%
of
> > the users affected, etc.
> > Out of 20 workstations 8 seperate pc's will sporadically lock for up to
> > 30sec one has even received the client message to wait while it retries
a
> > request to the server.
> >
> >
>
>