Re: QNTC and Windows mirroring

["Peter Dow (ML)" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Richard, I have to agree -- I'll see if they'll give Win Services 
for Unix a shot.

*Peter Dow* /
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 793-9050
pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> /

richard@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> First of all.   QNTC is flakey at best on all releases.  I would love to 
> see IBM fix this, but I digress :-)
>
> Are you copying files from the iSeries to the Windows boxes or using 
> Netserver to talk from the PC's to the iSeries ?
>
> If using the iSeries to copy files to the Windows server, consider putting 
> Windows Services for Unix on the Windows box and enabling an NFS share. 
>
> After installed Windows Services for Unix you can enable an NFS share and 
> simply mount an IFS folder so that it can directly access the NFS share. 
>
> No user ID/password stuff to worry about when copying files back and forth 
> from the iSeries via CPY or whatever mechanism you're using. 
>
> Almost sounds like a corrupted object or some wierd authority thing 
> getting you.  I love generic CPF errors like CPE3474 :-)
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
> RJS Software Systems Inc. 
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>
> message: 7
> date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:20:39 -0800
> from: "Peter Dow (ML)" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: QNTC and Windows mirroring
>
> I have a customer that has some kind of mirroring going on between two
> machines, call them A and B.  On the AS400, I have a links to directory
> Users on both machines, i.e.
>
> ADDLNK OBJ('/QNTC/A/Users') NEWLNK('/A')
> ADDLNK OBJ('/QNTC/B/Users') NEWLNK('/B')
>
> I have the same userid and password on the AS400 as on the PCs in 
> question.
>
> Using Windows Explorer, I can see \\A\Users\somedir\somefile and
> \\B\Users\somedir\somefile.
>
> Using WRKLNK, I can see /A/somedir, but no files at all, and cannot see
> /B/somedir (although I do see other directories on /B).
>
> Authorities (according to Windows Explorer) are the same on both machines.
>
> I tried WRKLNK '/B' again and this time got "File system error occurred. 
>   Error number 3474."  WRKMSGD CPE3474 shows
>
>   Message . . . . :   Unknown system state.
>   Cause . . . . . :   The operation failed due to an unknown system 
> state. See
>     any messages in the job log and correct any errors that may 
> indicated and
>     then retry the operation.
>
> And there are no other messages in the joblog.
>
> Any idea what's going on?  I think they're running Windows Server 2003;
> the AS400 is v5r3 and WRKPTFGRP shows
>
> PTF Group             Level  Status
> SF99530                6142  Installed
>
> Peter Dow
> Dow Software Services, Inc.
> 909 793-9050
>