RE: Can't update IFS anymore

Joe:

All I can add is that a very similar thing happened to me except it was to a 
share on a WinNT Server box, not an AS/400 NetServer share, and my desktop was 
WinNT 4.0. It started when the NT Server drive where the share pointed filled 
up. Wish I could say what fixed it.

After almost two weeks, well after drive space was made available again by 
deleting numerous files, it just started working again.

Note that some other shares also seemed affected. I was also unable to access 
(update) shares against my Win2K Pro laptop that I had on the network. Most 
other shares worked fine.

Same symptoms of hourglass, Explorer hangs, 'access denied', etc.; there just 
wasn't any NetServer involved. I suspect the answer lies deep within Microsoft 
networking.

The good news from my side is only that eventually it worked. Sure wish I knew 
why.

Tom Liotta

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   2. RE: Can't update IFS anymore (Joe Pluta)
>
>Interesting.  Well, John, it worked once.  I created a share and updated
>files in it, but Windows Explorer still hangs up.
>
>Now I've got three shares, different drives.  Each one is mapped to a
>different folder on the IFS.  I open Windows Explorer, then expand My
>Computer.  I see the three drives.  The two original maps I can then
>continue to drill into, expanding folders and subfolders.
>
>But the broken one acts very strangely.  I can expand the drive, and I will
>see a list of folders.  But if I try to expand any of those folders,
>Explorer locks up.  I get an hourglass as long as the pointer is in the
>Explorer's tree view, and Explorer no longer responds to requests and
>ultimately has to be canceled using Task Manager in order just to be able to
>shut down.
>
>And now even if I remove the share, reboot, and add the share again, I can't
>even match my initial success, and when trying to access folders the job
>immediately locks up.  Explorer hangs, and if I look on the AS/400, the
>QZLSFILE job goes first into RUN mode, then TIMW.  If I reboot and try to
>connect to the folder with a different profile, I get a weird message that
>"the network folder is already mapped with a different user profile", and
>that I need to disconnect any shares.  Except I don't have any from this
>computer.  Is it checking shares from other computers?  I dunno.

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Tom Liotta
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Kent, WA 98032
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