RE: Can't update IFS anymore -- MIDRANGE-L

Joe,

This is where I call my tech infrastructure troops & cry out "help" ... thank goodness I have them!

The message "the network folder is already mapped with a different user profile" somewhat indicates what I was saying.

I'm not an expert in this, but ... Win2K has a user sign-in. If that userid / password sign-in matches your AS/400, it uses them as the DEFAULT to get into the AS/400. If not, you get access to folders that your PC profile has authority to.

Unfortunately, that's my depth in this subject. My tech guys say that they couldn't even try to diagnose the problems on a PC with a screwed up registry.

HTH,

John

At 10:43 AM 5/28/2003, you wrote:

> From: John Myers - MM
>
> I had this problem once ... when I went to Win2K.  Suddenly, I had read
> only access, only!
>
> In order to fix it, I had to specify my AS/400 user profile and password
> when mapping a drive (Connect using a different user name).  I
> didn't have
> the same name & password on my PC.

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.


> This could have happened if someone has changed the default
> information on
> that PC.

Which default information?

Joe