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<Pine.OSF.3.91j.950522200536.2099B-100000@saul5.u.washington.edu>, 
jessicar@u.washington.edu says...
>
>Please help me!
>
>Problem:
>Our main server crashed this afternoon.  I believe the crash was caused 
>by a MAC user trying to install a program from the network.  (He was not 
>supposed to do this, but unfortunately I didn't deny access to the 
>directory.)  
>
>Details:
>We are running Novell 3.11
>I downed the server and brought it back up.
>SYS volume would not mount.
>I ran vrepair and it found many errors which it wrote to disk.
>I downed the server and brought it back up again, this time SYS mounted.
>
>Now, no one can login.  When anyone tries to login the server console 
>gives the message:
>
>NCP request received with invalid security signature.
>Possible intruder or network corruption.
>
>None of our users have passwords.  I can't even login as supervisor with 
>the right password.
>
>What I've tried:
>I believe the bindery has been corrupted, but I can't restore it because 
>I can't login to the server from a workstation.  Bindfix & bindrest are 
out.
>
>I tried copying the system directory from another server to the troubled 
>server, downed it, brought it up, no change--still can't login.
>
>I want to run vrepair again, but can't seem to get the SYS volume NOT to 
>mount so I can run vrepair again.  It doesn't find vrepair if I mount 
>then unmount the SYS volume.  I tried a boot floppy but must have done 
>something wrong because it can't find any volumes to repair when I try 
>vrepair from the floppy.
>
>I'm trying right now to use sbackup's restore function.  We have a 
fairly 
>new tape backup on one of our other servers and luckily I backed up the 
>crashed server a couple weeks ago.  I'm having trouble restoring the 
>bindery though.  It's going now but the Total Restored amount has said 
>326.5 KB for over 32 minutes.  I tried stopping it and restarting it, 
>restoring not just the bindery but part of the sys, but this also seems 
>to stick at 326.5 KB.  It is currently attempting to restore still.  I 
>haven't stopped it yet.  The Activity bar is going across normally and I 
>haven't received any errors, but I'm just concerned about the Total 
>Restored amount staying the same.
>
>I've been working on this for over four hours now.  Any suggestions are 
>greatfully appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>Jessica
>
>
Hello!

At this point I would get a new disk. The existing disk might be causing 
trouble. Next You might be killing it softly trying to make it work. The 
cost of a new disk is low compared to a few weeks work. 
If You are restoring a extremely big file, the restore might stop for 
some time and then do a jump, but four hours??

Good luck!