I have an OI 8.0.8 installed in W2008 Svr 64 bits to work with Arev32, the databases (volumes) are in another W2003 Svr 32 bits.

There are several work stations that have two map network drive units (Application Arev32 in W2008 and the data W2003), since here everything works perfect.

The problem is in the W2008, I have a map network drive unit (the data W2003), I execute the Arev32 and I cannot see (Attach, ListVolume, Pdisk) the data unit, the error is: "FS109 Open or Create Media Error The name F:\MEX12 is an invalid volume directory label", however, if I enter to OpenInsight with the DataBase Manager I can see the tables without problems, I have also copied the data directory to the hard disk of the W2008 and it works well.

I thank any advice than can give me

Ahead of time thank you,

Ines

Try using a unc path instead of mapped drives.

I suspect the problem is that the socket server is running as a service, so does not know about mapped drives.

Thank you for your answer Bob,

Indeed, the Socket Server is running as a service.

I made the following test using UNC path and neither works.

In Arev32, with F5, (TCL Command), I wrote:

"LISTVOLUME \\192.168.10.200\BDINTERPRES\MEX12"

The system responds:

"FS109 Open or Create Media Error The name \\192.168.10.200\BDINTERPRES\MEX12 is an invalid volume directory label"

What could be happening?, some other suggestion?

I thank your time a lot

I think you are missing a backslash. Unc is \\server\share\folder

try \\192.168.10.200\BDINTERPRES\MEX12

In fact, I'm writing the double backslash, but here in the post does not appear \

Regards

OpenInsight 8.x has been known to run on Windows 2008 but it isn't officially supported as a platform. OpenInsight 9.x is recommended for Windows 2008 and 7 because it is fully DEP compatible. Are you able to reproduce the same problem with OpenInsight 9.x / AREV32 on your 2008 server?

Hi Jared,

I did the changes for OI9.1.0 and the result is the same (also change the server socket service)

What do you think?

Thank you

Do you have a LinearHash service installed on both servers? If not, what network driver is your Arev32 system using.

The LinearHash is only installed on the W2008 server.

The network driver:

 In OI8.0.8 with All networks Driver 2.1 (previous test)

 In OI9.1 with Universal driver in 3.0.0, I changed it to 4.6.0 and it is the same

OI 8.0.8 installed in W2008 Svr 64 bits to work with Arev32, the databases (volumes) are in another W2003 Svr 32 bits.

I think this could be part of the problem. Every computer that hosts shared .LK/.OV files must have a LinearHash service installed. This is this is the server component that coordinates access to the database files. Because your OpenInsight system is on one server and the database files are on another you should have two copies of the LinearHash services. One on the Windows 2008 server to manage concurrent access to the revboot directory (i.e. syslists) and another on the Windows 2003 server to coordinate access to the database itself.

The All networks 2.1 driver could work in a cooperative group locks mode without a LinearHash service but it is no longer supported as a configuration. If this worked in the past you may be experiencing this incompatibility.

One last item, you can't use the same copy of the LinearHash service because clients cannot attach to two different servers with the same LinearHash serial number.

Well, in that case we will try to develop in OI, to replace what we have in Arev32.

Thank you

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