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Mycroft

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Jan 22, 2004, 10:45:48 AM1/22/04
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I am having an issue storing MS Office documents on NetWare volumes. If a
client creates a Word or Excel doc on their workstation, then copies that
file to the server, the Modified Timestamp decrements by 1 second. So if
c:\doc1.doc is saved at 10:00:01am then is copied to vol1:\doc1.doc, the
modified timestamp is changed to 10:00:00am.

This problem only happens with doc and xls files, not txt or pdf files. The
Client OS can be NT4, W2K, or WinXP. And the NetWare volume can be
traditional or NSS. The problem is consistent in all cases.

Any insight on why this would be happening is greatly appreciated.


Kai Reichert

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Jan 22, 2004, 11:36:30 AM1/22/04
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Hi
Can you give us any information about the OS and clients you are using ?

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Mycroft

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Jan 22, 2004, 12:04:52 PM1/22/04
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The NetWare servers are all 5.1 with SP6, and the clients are 4.6sp1 on
Windows NT4 and 4.9 on XP.


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Kai Reichert

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Jan 22, 2004, 12:45:33 PM1/22/04
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Yes, duped here. Investigating...

Kai Reichert

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Jan 22, 2004, 4:15:24 PM1/22/04
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Ok, so this is working as designed.
I will work on a TID explaining why it happens and post it when done in
this thread.

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Marcel Cox

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Jan 31, 2004, 9:26:19 AM1/31/04
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Given that Kai hasn't come back yet, I will quickly give you an
explanation.
The NCP protocol used by the Novell client to communicate with the
server uses the old DOS data structures to represent time stamps. These
DOS time stamps only have a resolution of 2s. So any timestamp with odd
seconds will be rounded to an even value.

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Kai Reichert

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Feb 1, 2004, 9:34:27 AM2/1/04
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Marcel, I did come back :)
I just thought you'd write the TID ;)

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Novell Support Forums Sysop

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