Re: NetServer: incorrect password or user

Serg, 

>    Message . . . . :   User profile USER1 disabled for AS/400 Support for
>      Windows Network Neighborhood access.

Note that the password is only disabled for Network neighbourhood access,
this is why even though it says it's disabled the user can still sign on.

>After that there is only way to restart the netserver, because the password
>has *enabled status.

I believe you can re-enable the password for NetServer access by changing
it. Even a CHGUSRPRF with no parameters seems to do the trick. I don't
recall whether you need to re-start NetServer for this to take effect, but
seem to remmeber that just changing the profile was sufficient.

>Two questions:
>1. What is database where a netserver keeps this information?

I have no idea. Someone else might.

>2. Why does it disable a profile when an user enter password correctly?
>    (as an example the user can signon to the 400 or map a drive of another
>400)
>

You might want to check what their windows profile is. There is some
checking that is done along the lines of windows user to AS/400 profile.
How it does this is dependent on you PC OS (ie. Win 95 or NT).

I got caught on the above because I was anticpating/expecting/wanting to
use my usual AS/400 profile, but it kept connecting with my windows user
ID, which just happened to exist on the AS/400; I then entered the password
of the profile i WANTED to use, not the profile that was actually being
connected with. I must have disabled it a dozen times before I realised
what was going on.

There is some fairly different behaviour with 95 and NT and user ID's and
passwords, so you might want to investigate the documentation on this.

"What documentation ?", you might ask. There is some now - a redbook
"Netserver Advantage" (you can find it by searching for Netserver on
www.redbooks.ibm.com) and there is also a Netserver web site somewhere on
IBM com. Sorry I don't have the URL's handy. I've never quite mastered the
knack of keeping them in such a way that I can readily dump them into my
email.

Hope this helps
Regards
Evan Harris
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