Files deleted unintentionally

[Matt B.]

Server: NW 6 SP3 with post-SP3 NSS updates. Oplocks off.
Clients: Win98 with client 3.4, using ipx only.

Problem: We have an app that several dozen people are using. When a user
starts the program, or moves from one module to another, it reads a file on
the server for authentication. Lately this file is disappearing every so
often!

I can use salvage to get it back, and see who deleted it. This has happened
several times, always with a different person deleting it. I know they
didn't mean to - they were just trying to log into the program. For some
reason instead of just reading the file, the program deletes it. I tried
making the file read-only and that seems to help. I have run virus scans on
these computers and found nothing.

But we used this program all through December and never saw this behavior
until Jan 2. As far as I know, nothing changed except the date! I do have
some Windows XP machines on the network now, using client 4.9, but they
aren't the ones deleting the file. So far it's always been the 98 machines.

The software vendor has "never seen this before" and is inclined to blame
Netware or the Novell client and how it handles file locking. Perhaps
they're right.

Has anyone seen files just disappear like this??

Matt B.

[Craig Wilson]

I've never heard of such a thing.

Is this a "static" file?
If so and running ZEN, perhaps you could have the file set as "distribute
always" and "if does not exist". Just have a copy of the file in an alternate
directory to have it copied from.

This way anytime anyone launches the program and the file had previously gone
"poof", the file will automatically be replaced.

"Matt B." wrote:

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