Conference ranger::pathworks_netware

786.0. "Changes to NCP functionallity within PWVN ?" by COMICS::SYMONDSK () Thu Feb 13 1997 08:39

    Hopefully this is the correct conference to the following issue:
    
    I have a customer who is running the latest Novell NT client with
    Pathworks for OpenVMS (Netware) V1.0-430D and can do the following:
    
    He can attach to the server and can map a drive to the server, but 
    when he tries to display anything on the drive the problems start.
    
    1. Browsing from explorer or file manager shows nothing.
    
    2. DIR from the command prompt show nothing.
    
    3. NDIR works.
    
    4. FILER works.
    
    It is ONLY this version of the client that has the problem, DOS NETX &
    VLM clients and Novell 32bit WIN95 clients all work.
    
    Novell have said it must be a problem with the server software
    (typical) and suspect the problem may be caused by incompatible NCP
    packets but that was all they could come up with.
    
    I told the customer the bug is in Novell's new client bits in which
    he went back to Novell who said that the new NT client isn't compatible
    with anything before 3.11 and that's how it's documented and supposed
    to be, so my customer is now stating that this is a pain, as it means
    the recently bought 50 user licenses for Pathworks for OpenVMS (Netware) 
    is going to become less and less useful as more people upgrade to NT.
    
    So the question is are there any plans to upgrade the NCP
    functionallity within PWVN to support these new style calls 
    (he asks hopefully)?
    
    Thanks in advance,
    Kevin Symonds.
    (CSC - Basingstoke)