Re: Win95/Win98 Netserver drive mapping problems

Hi Evan,

Thanks! The solution was to use OpsNav to look at Network|Servers|TCPIP
wherein I discovered that the NetServer job was not started.  Once I started
it, I was able to map a drive to the share over my VPN connection to the
client's WAN.

I should've known better than to assume, but knowing that some users were
mapped with no problem threw me off.  I'm still not sure why that is, but my
theory is that when they initially mapped the drive, the QZLSSERVER job
spawns a QPWFSERVSO job which actually provides the drive mapping for a
particular user.  Before I started the QZLSSERVER job, there were several
active QPWFSERVSO jobs running.

Just a side note: contrary to your logic (which sure sounded good) there is
no guest profile set up on this AS400, according to OpsNav.

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 793-9050 voice
909 522-3214 cellular
909 793-4480 fax

----- Original Message -----
From: "Evan Harris" <spanner@ihug.co.nz>
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: Win95/Win98 Netserver drive mapping problems


> I have a couple of suggestions that you might like to try.

<snip>

> I did find it useful to use Ops navigator and click on TCPIP->SERVERS and
> then explore the netserver server. There is a tab or tree that allows you
> to view the shares and who is logged on to them. This might allow you to
> get a handle on whether the guest profile is used extensively or not. The
> configuration entry from here will also tell you if a guest user is
> enabled, but your advice that a win95 user with no profile logged on says
> to me that there is.