We are running OSX 10.4.8 and Netware 6.5 SP5 nss5b.

The problem we are having is on the OSX side only. There is one user's
home directory that everyone can see, regardless of what the rights
are. They cannot view files inside the home directory. If these users
login on a PC, they cannot see that user's home directory.
Even users in a different container can see this home directory.
Also some users can sometimes see certain directories and volumes very
intermittently. They will login one time and see a volume, and login
another and no longer see it.

To get a better understanding, we have home directories for students
under four different folders. 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 under our
DATA/Users Volume.

I believe this is a problem with the way the macs process the file
rights given to them. I deleted that user account and home directory
and recreated them. After I did that, they can no longer see the home
directory. They can still see the 2011 folder it is under. I don't
really want to blow away that folder if I don't have to.

There are intermittent problems like this happening throughout our
district. I have no clue where to go from here.

Probably a password issue.
In order to be able to login through AFP, the user must either have the
simple password set or you must have universal password enabled so that
you have the same password for AFP as for Windows machines with a Novell
client.

Yet another possibility is to use the CLEARTEXT option as described in the
documentation here:

http://www.novell.com/documentation/oes/native/data/ac1pdri.html

On 18/01/07 Joe Bechler wrote:

There is no "conflict", whatever you mean by that. There may be a comms
problem, or a Mac OS problem, or an AFP problem on the NW servers.

We will need the Mac OS version. On any Mac go to the Apple menu (top
left usually), About This Mac.

What exactly is slow? Copying files to the server, from or both? Opening
data files on the server volumes from apps running on the Mac? Are the
apps running from the Mac hard disks or the server volumes?

What lan driver, date and version, on the NW server? Whatever it is,
make sure it and the switch/router port it is plugged into are both set
to autonegotiate, not hard-set to 100FD or anything else.
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Two Mac OSX 10.4 users have problems with copying certain files to our CIFS
volumes.

NW65sp4a servers - clustered.

Problem seems to be with .pdf files and .indd files. If we email the files
to a PC, they copy fine - at least with the Novell Client.

The Macs almost get done, then throw an "Unexpected Error Code -50"

My testing with SLES9 and NLD10 - no problems for the same files. Also no
problems for a Windows PC that did not have the Novell Client - using CIFS.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jim

Hi,

We have a PC with both the Novell & Windows client installed and when they
try and access a NW6.5 server with CIFS enabled via a UNC path it fails,
mapped drives are fine. When I remove the MS client it all starts working
again. Unfortunately they need the Ms client for an application on samba
server.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Matt

Hi

We're needing to troubleshoot our file opening from MAC workstations to
netware based volumes.

Scenario:

Mac based worstations PowerPC G5 3GB ram OSX 10.4.8

Netware 6.5 Sp 5 with Cluster services 1.6.

xserve G5 OSX 10.3.9 servers with 750 GB of disk capacity.

Issue: when we transfer a file from the netware based volume to the xserve
server all runs fine. Our problems begin when a final user wants to open a
file (i.e. a photoshop one) from the netware based volume. Volume
disconnects, the file opening is very long, etc.

ideas?

Tim

Thanks for your help,but we're using AFPTCP access with our MACs already.
Now we're interested in know which users are logged in using this protocol.
This is why I've asked about a command or option like CIFS CONN that shows
users accessing with that protocol.

regards

Andrew,

it's already installed. I have no idea what's wrong.

Regards
Klaus Tillenburg

To configure AFP you need to setup several items:

1. Edit sys:\etc\ctxs.cfg adding the contexts you want users to log in
contextlessly. One context per line.
2. Edit the sys:\system\afpstrt.ncf and add CLEARTEXT on the line after
the LOAD AFPTCP. This is temporary as with this setting the NDS
password will get copied into the simple password.
3. from the system console do AFPSTOP then AFPSTRT

Test from a MAC.
Open-apple-k enter the server IP or DNS name, login ,choose volume you
want to mount.