Re: Netserver Issues (Somewhat Long)

[Victor Hunt <xlcfdp@xxxxxxxxx>]

It is a technical issue related to how we do daily backups of each PC in a
peer-to-peer environment. Are there other ways to accomplish backups
without this password issue? Probably, but it's not a top ten issue
unfortunately so I need to work around it.

No, there is no specific reason QDLS is used. It was setup this way some
time ago. This worked under Windows XP without issue. The issue came up
when the PC's were switched to Windows 7. One difference between the PC's,
one is 32-bit, the other is 64-bit. The 32-bit works, the 64-bit does not.

Neither user has a home directory displayed in their user profile. Both are
enrolled in the distribution list.


On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:36 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Reasons outside of your control?
>
> Push harder.  Sure there's the 'black helicopters' crowd that fears
> sharing the same passwords between windows and i.  Heck, we don't fear it
> - we enforce it.  We use Tivoli Identity Manager to keep them in sync.
> Besides the 'black helicopters' crowd what business reason is there to not
> have the passwords the same?  Are they sharing id's on the i but not on
> Windows (or vice versa)?
>
> Another item that may be out of your control but I'll try anyway.  Stop
> using /QDLS.  It's slower.  It's a PITA to create a new file with windows
> based tools with that stupid 8.3 file naming limitation.  For example 'New
> Copy of xyz.xls' kind of gets rejected.  And a host of other reasons.
> Since you are using a share from the clients it should be easier to move
> it.
>
> I don't suppose one of these users have a bad default home directory or
> some strange thing?
> Security access to the data, and/or directory structure?
>
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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