NW41 NDS problem

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2 total messages Started by Mike Carson Sat, 02 Mar 1996 00:00

#473

Author: Mike Carson
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1996 00:00

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I'm pretty new to the Novell Netware landscape and am now faced
with the task of installing four new file servers.  Last weekend
I installed Netware 4.1 on a file server which used to be an NT3.51
server and things went reasonably well.  Everybody was up and running
and all data was transferred by Monday.  Now I'm trying to add a second 
server to the tree of the first and am running into a stumbling
block. 

I created another organization for the server in the
tree and tried installing the server into this context of the
tree and the installation program just stopped; there was no
error on either file server but the installation program was
stalled on the "Installing Directory Services. This may take
a few minutes..." screen.   I let it set for hours but it
was obvious that nothing was happening.  

I tried the installation several times but got stuck in the same
place every time.  I used the userid Admin on the first file server
for the second's NDS installation and it definitely had all rights 
to the NDS tree.  The time was synchronized with the first file
server which was using a single reference time server and the second was a
secondary time server.  Both were using the 802.3 frame type and
are part of the same network (A1) and had different internal network
numbers (102 and 103).   The installation works fine on the second
if I create a new tree instead of inserting into the tree of the
first. The first does not seem to have any problems according to
DSREPAIR though.   When the second server is installed in its own tree,
it can be accessed by all other servers and clients so there does not
appear to be any networking conflicts.
What the heck is happening?

The existing network has one other NDS tree (4.01) in place which
will disappear as soon as the second file server is installed in
the tree created last week.  There are also 3 other Netware 3.11
file servers.  One will disappear Monday, and the other two will be
replaced by the next two Netware 4.1 servers.  Can anybody give me
some advice on how to proceed next in getting past the NDS installation
problem?


Mike Carson
mlcarson@conch.msen.com

Re: NW41 NDS problem

#474

Author: Mike Carson
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 00:00

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The problem that I had of adding a server to an existing
NDS tree was caused by an out of date ethernet driver for
the Intel Etherexpress Flash 32 EISA card.  The symptom was
simply a stalled installation process at the point where the
server was put into the tree; in fact, the server object was 
created but not the volumes.   The servers in question were
HP Netservers LF (586-66).  This has been driving me crazy
for over a week.  It's bad enough to be a newbie at Netware
but when the unexplained happens as it did in my case when doing
something the first time, it's a 100 times worse.

Many thanks to all those who E-mailed on this.  Nobody actually
identified the problem correctly but it was insightful nonetheless.

Mike Carson
mlcarson@conch.msen.com

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