Losing connection (password) from Win95 to VisionFS

[Ken Wolff]

Running OSR5.0.5 (with rs505a, oss497b, oss471c and VisionFS 3.00.925) We
are using encrypted passwords authenticated by a WinNT 4.0 (SP5) PDC.

About 20 Win95 PCs access shared printers and drives on this machine. From
time to time it seems that Vision just "losses" the password used on the
WIN95 machine. For example, I have a drive "X" mapped to a share on this
machine. I have a file opened from drive "X" and try to save that file and
get an "access denied" error. At that point I cannot open drive X or
anything else through VisionFS.

If I go into Network Neigborhood and double click on this server, it asks
me for my password to \\server\IPC$. I enter the same password I used
before and once again I have access. I can then save the file I have open.

Has anyone else run into this? Right now I show 10 WIN95 machines
connected. We have a 57 user SCO License which I understand translates to
a 57 user VisionFS license.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Ken

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Ken Wolff propounded (on Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 02:42:03PM +0000):

I have nothing much to suggest on your specific problem, but you have
nothing to lose by installing the 3.10.910 release, which appeared on
www.sco.com/vision just recently.

--
JP

[Ken Wolff]

At 03:38 PM 8/3/00 +0000, Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
>I have nothing much to suggest on your specific problem, but you have
>nothing to lose by installing the 3.10.910 release, which appeared on
>www.sco.com/vision just recently.
>
>--
>JP

Ah, that'd be worth a try. Thanks JP.

[Ken Wolff]

Geez-oh-petes. I swear SCO's web site is about as easy to navigate as the
polar ice pack. JP, can you give me some direction on how to download this
new release (or patch) from SCO's web site? I go 'round and 'round and it
just wants to give me a Vision2K eval. I also looked on the FTP site but
3.00.925 is the latest there.

Ken

[Tony Lawrence]

Ken Wolff wrote:

> Geez-oh-petes. I swear SCO's web site is about as easy to navigate as the
> polar ice pack. JP, can you give me some direction on how to download this
> new release (or patch) from SCO's web site? I go 'round and 'round and it
> just wants to give me a Vision2K eval. I also looked on the FTP site but
> 3.00.925 is the latest there.

http://www.sco.com/products/openserver/vfs_update.html

SCO's website has, of course, been designed by marketing
dweebs, so everything is pretty but nothing is easy to find
:-)

--
Tony Lawrence (to...@aplawrence.com)
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[Ken Wolff]

Ah, that worked. Thanks Tony.