Dear Fellow Developers and Most Esteemed AREV Guru's,

This email was originally submitted on 3/7/02 in the Network Catagory as NLM 5.0 - NSS -

FS481 & ME (I don't know why I added the ME part… it was a spur of the moment thing). My

hope is that by putting this in the AREV Catagory, you may be more inclined to respond.

Thanks in Advance!

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We have been attempting to implement NLM 5.0 on our Novell Netware 5.1 SP3 Servers, however

our attempts have been unsuccessfully. The files are currently being stored on NSS (i.e.

VOL1).

I was wondering if any one out there has successfully implemented NLM 5.0 and Netware 5.1 SP3

w/NSS mounted Volumes?

Software Product: AREV 2.12

Workstations: DOS 6.21/6.22, Windows 95/98/NT/2000

Server Model: IBM Netfinity X Series 350

The Errors I Get:

Error occurs when multiple (more than one) workstations attempt to access the same file.

At Workstation Boot Up, we'll get a "Can't execute a program because the program has not been

cataloged"… The program(s) are cataloged.

Occasionally, just to add spice to my life, we'll get a file error to a file that doesn't

exist… (For example, Fatal Error Reading FS481 OROV\DCCS\BILLING\REV510001.PR, Linear Hash

Client/Server - Server File Open Error. File name REV510001.PR…)

The Little I know:

NLM_Stats reveals nothing (The FS481 error seems to occur before the "secondary"

workstation(s) attempts to access the file… not during. Which means as far as the NLM_Stats

is concerned the "secondary" workstation is not making an attempt to access the errant file.)

TTS doesn't run on NSS so that's out… right?

None of my volumes are greater the 12.

My plea:

Any suggestions, even the obvious, would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Originally submitted 3/8/02 in the Network Catagory.

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We've copied our Arev Product to a Traditional Volume in one of our Novell Netware 5.1 Service

Pack 3 test server and thus far it appears to be working… So it's definitely looking like a

NSS Volume w/ Service Pack 3 - Revelation NLM 5.0 issue. (NSS Volume w/ Service Pack 1a works

fine).

My Network Development group is strongly opposed to moving our Arev Product to a Traditional

Volume and we have to install Service Pack 3 to all of my data centers…

Any suggestions, would be greatly appreciated!

For S&G…

Revelation was able to successfully test AREV 2.12 on a NSS Volume SP3. Revelation was also

kind enough to provide their Server Configuration. There is no significant differences between

both Anacomp and Revelation Server configs….

Novell Error Message we are getting (note, this only occurs when more than one user is

accessing the same file) - Netware Error No 136, which, according to Novell, could either mean

FFFFFF7D=DSERR_INVALID_FILE_HANDLE or

FFFFFF78=DSERR_NO_SEARCH_PRIVILEGE

My question are:

Does anyone know,

1) the low level definition of these error messages?

2) What is the cause of this type of error?

3) Why this error is occurring when more than one workstation is accessing the same file?

4) How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll of a Tootsie Roll Pop?

We are currently at an impasse… any help would be appreciated.

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