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- From: rnorth@news.cecer.army.mil (Russ Northrup)
- Subject: Re: 4.11(5) clients not able to login
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- Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs
- References: <BANYAN-L%93012015185123@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:24:00 GMT
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- MA=Crist%Info_Sys%STG_IS@DSO3.DSD.TRW.COM writes:
-
- >OK folks,
- >
- >Here's a good one. Today, almost none of our people with 4.11(5) client
- >software can login. They just get "error reading drive Z, VINES Files
- >unavailable". We thought it might be that someone locked out their Z:\ drive
- >via the ARL. That wasn't it. Next we thought it might have something to do
- >with restricted links, but that wasn't it either. We've checked about
- >everything we can think of. VINES 5.X clients work fine. Anybody out there
- >seen anything like this before? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- >
-
- We are experiencing a similar problem right now. Many users are
- experiencing "VINES files: access denied" messages. Yet when we check
- the ARLs on their server "Venus", they are correct.
-
- We figure that the user is using VINES Files from another server (we have
- 34) that _is_ misconfigured. So we run whatz from diskette. It shows
- VINES Files as residing on Venus, the local server. Routing is also from
- Venus.
-
- So, we isolate that network segment from the rest of the net, and presto!
- The problem goes away. We reconnect the net, the problem reappears.
-
- I restate here, routing and Vines files are shown as being on the local
- server. Yet when it's isolated, it works, and when not isolated, it doesn't.
-
- We have now gotten reports of this happening on two other servers. One of
- which has been tested by isolation, which behaves the same as Venus.
-
- The server giving us trouble is 5.x. Clients at 4.11 on that net don't
- give us problems (unless isolated, of course).
-