Re: Unable To Communicate error

[David Gersic]

On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:56:01 +0000, jszewculak wrote:

> I have 4 Netware 6.5 OES servers in a directory tree and at different
> times during the day this servers loses communications with the other
> three servers in the tree.

I'd go hunting for network problems in this case. dsrepair does not fix
communications problems. It may appear to do so if it forces you to wait
for a period of time, during which whatever has stopped working on your
network starts working again.

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[David Gersic]

On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:46:02 +0000, jszewculak wrote:

> Thanks but we have checked our network and can find no problems ? When
> the servers can't communicate we can still ping all of them and if I set
> up monitoring on them by checking throughout the day and night with a
> ping test there is never a loss of communication or network errors
> showing up.

One thing to note is that ping is a really small packet. Most of your
comms are going to be a lot larger than ping packets. I've seen broken
networks where data didn't get through, but ping still worked.

[David Gersic]

On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:16:03 +0000, jszewculak wrote:

> Can we update from SP3 directly to SP8 or do we need to upgrade
> in a sequence starting with an earlier version ?

You should be able to go straight to SP8.