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- SUBJECT : 386 Upgrade Problem
- DATE : 4/23/90
- OS VERSION : 386
- REVISION : 3.0
- SHELL VERSION : 3.0
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- GENERAL INFO : I had a user that was upgrading a file server
- from Netware 286 to 386, with over 100 users
- defined on the 286 server. He had a problem in
- which the uprgade utility (both 1.0 and 1.1)
- would not move the login script to the proper
- mail subdirectory. For each user, the Upgrade
- utility created two mail subdirectories. One
- directory was the same one as in Netware 286 and
- the other one was the new subdirectory. The login
- script would be moved to the old subdirectory but
- the bindery would look to the new subdirectory
- and would not be able to find it. The obvious
- answer would be to copy the login file from
- the old directory to the new one, but that would
- be very cumbersome for 100 plus users.
-
- To make sure that the customer was doing
- everything properly, we ran upgrade several times.
- Each time, we ended up with the same results.
-
-
- PROBLEM : Corrupt binderies on the 286 file server.
-
- SOLUTION : Run Bindfix on the 286 file server, down it,
- bring it back up, rerun Upgrade.
-
- COMMENTS : I have taken 386 calls for three months and never
- heard of the problem. Then I had two different
- sites with this exact same problem in one day.
- In one case all I had to do was to run upgrade on
- the mail directories. The other case, the user
- had to reinitialize volume SYS on the 386 file
- server and redo a full upgrade.
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