From: waw3@ix.netcom.com (BillW)
Subject: Re: Novell Home Directory problems
Date: 1999/03/17
Message-ID: #1/1
References:  
Organization: Netcom
Newsgroups: comp.os.netware.misc,fido.novell,news.admin.os.netware.misc,swnet.lans.novell

Nwnp32.exe can be found at
HTTP://support.microsoft.com/download/support/mslfiles/Nwnp32.exe

BillW  CNE  MCSE


On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:50:19 GMT, nshlanta@sprynet.com (^NAS^) wrote:

>On 11 Mar 1999 14:09:23 +0600, "loren kiefer" 
>wrote:
>
>>I am having a problem with my users and there netware home directories. 
>>Every once in a while (random) and user (random) will go to save a document
>>(usually Microsoft word 97) to their home directory and it will be in a
>>read only mode.  All rights and priviledges are correct and if we wait a
>>day the user can normally save again without any other intervention. 
>>Everything appears to be random, but appears to get worse the longer the
>>server has been up and running.  If we shut the server down, the problem
>>doesn't really start to appear again for about 2-3 days.
>
>Stupid question but... are you sure they are not sharing these files
>out of thier home directories (security permitting)?
>>
>>We will also begin to have problems with maintaining print ability to our
>>HP 4000 networked printers.  They are on-line but the printer is greyed out
>>within the windows 95 printers area.  If we restart the pc it will normally
>>come back to life and be able to print, other times we need to reinstall
>>the printer within 95.  All printers are setup as print servers with HP jet
>>direct cards and they all exist on the same server in the same tree in the
>>same context.
>
>This problem is fairly common, the fix is not. Microsoft has a TID on
>this, don't have the number handy, but try searching MS knowledge base
>for nwpp32.dll. The fix is to install the Novell 32bit client or
>update the nwpp32.dll, which so far I can't find (read the amusing
>note at the bottom of the TID). We have been upgrading to Client 32.
>>
>>Any possible reasons for this?  Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Nathan Shlanta, CNE
>nshlanta@sprynet.com