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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:33:58 -0700
From: Thomas Webb <tawebb AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Problem with Personal NetWare
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Novell networking is generally like that: the connection state is broken
and the client is invalidated when the server goes down. It is generally
true that if Novel servers go down, you have to reboot or reload the
client's stack. It's a protocol thing: tcp/ip, as an example, is not
connection based and doesn't act like that (thank god). It's one of the
prices you pay for the speed of ipx based networking.

Alain wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I have a problem with Personal Netware that comes with
> DRDOS 7.03 and I hope someone in this list can help me with it:
> 
> - I have two machines (A and B) conected so that both are servers.
> - In each machine I: is mapped to the other machines C:\ in autoexec.bat
> - A program is running on each machine that access files in the
> other machine
> 
> The problem is that if I reset machine B. When it reboots it maps again
> it's I: do machines A's C:\ but machine A cannot access machine B anymore!
> Is there a way of making that connection again (or not loosing it) without
> exiting the program that is running in machine A?
> 
> This works with Little Big Lan, but PNW is much faster and cheapper :)
> 
> thanks for any help
> 
> Alain

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