Message-ID: <064801c0b177$8969a2c0$11fea8c0@dell>
From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
References: <000a01c0b0e3$18ce1e40$0400a8c0 AT alain-nb> <00f001c0b16d$c7389660$1e08e289 AT mpaul>
Subject: Re: Problem with Personal NetWare
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:51:32 -0000
Organization: Jemmett Glover Software Development
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> NETWARE DOS REQUESTER
>    AUTO RECONNECT = ON
Unfortunately, this never worked consistently with the VLMs.  v1.21 (the
last version) was supposed to be able to reconnect if one answered 'R' to a
General Failure reading device NETWORK:, but didn't manage it most of the
time.  I think PNW ships with v1.07 or thereabouts of VLM.EXE, but I think
there have always been problems with reconnection.  Client32 fixed it for
the most part, but doesn't support PNW...

> but
> I´m not completely sure if it also works when
> rebooting the server.
Define 'rebooting'.  Ctrl-Alt-Delete ought to shut down the PNW server
neatly, similar stopping the server and then rebooting, but that'll send
messages to stations (I think) saying 'I'm gone, tear down your connections
immediately'.  Cutting power without shutting down PNW may or may not work.

Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)