PC WSPlus: Lost Connection to LAN Manager or NetWare Server (111859)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Schedule+ 1.0
  • Microsoft Schedule+ for Windows 1.0a
This article was previously published under Q111859

SYMPTOMS

If you connect to a Novell NetWare or Microsoft LAN Manager server without establishing a drive letter to that connection, use Schedule+ to open another user's calendar on that server, and then close that calendar (or exits Schedule+), the attachment to that server no longer exists.

CAUSE

Schedule+ does not distinguish between a newly created attachment or universal naming convention (UNC) style connection and an old, pre-existing connection. Thus, when you close another user's appointment book or exit Schedule+, the connection is terminated.

RESOLUTION

Make sure you map a drive letter to your network connection before you open an appointment book.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in version 1.0 and 1.0a of Schedule+. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Problem for NetWare Environments

  1. Log in to a NetWare file server (ServerA, for example).
  2. Either in a login script, or from the an MS-DOS command prompt, connect to another NetWare server using the NetWare ATTACH command (ATTACH ServerB, for example). Do not establish a drive mapping to this second server.
  3. From Schedule+, open an appointment book for a user on ServerB.
  4. Close the calendar on ServerB.
  5. Go to an MS-DOS command prompt and type the NetWare command WHOAMI.
You are only attached to ServerA, the server you originally logged in to.

Steps to Reproduce Problem for LAN Manager Environments

  1. Connect to a LAN Manager server and establish a connection with a drive letter designated for the Mail postoffice on ServerA (NET USE M: \\ServerA\<share>, for example).
  2. Establish a UNC connection to another LAN Manager server without specifying a drive letter (NET USE \\ServerB\<share>, for example).
  3. From Schedule+, open an appointment book for a user on ServerB.
  4. Close the calendar on ServerB.
  5. Go to an MS-DOS command prompt and type the LAN Manager command NET USE.
You are only attached to ServerA, the server you originally logged in to.
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:8/16/2005
Keywords:KB111859
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