hallo ADSM-experts,

is there anybody using the ADSM Netware Client in a Netware 4.1x-LAN and has 
problems with the SMS-Interface of
Novell-Netware. We observed 'hanging' connections at remote NW-Fileservers 
(respectively over WAN-links). We
tried the newest SMS-Modules from Novell (July 96), but no approvement could be 
recognized.
It's very difficult to reconstruct the problem, because you never know whether 
it's going to occur or not. We
never managed to show this problem in the lab (obviously there was no 
LAN-traffic and heavy
server-utilization).

Error description:
If specified (-dom=remote-fileserver/VOL:) the ADSM-client connects via 
TSA-Modul (target service agent) to a
remote File-Server. This connection is visible in the connection-list at the 
remote FS (two connections: one
'not-logged-in' of SMDR-NLM and one 'ADSM-Client'-connection). After the backup 
this connections should be
cleared. But sometimes one of connection stays 'til reboot of the remote server.
There are two kinds of 'hanging' connections:
a) the connection remains under the name of adsm-client (occured with older 
versions of SMS-modules)
b) the connection is kept as 'not-logged-in' in the connection list / 
service-connection /smdr-connection.
   (since SMSUP5 and newer).
Case 'a)' isn't the worst, because you can have as many connections as 
permitted in the user-profile and you
can evade to other users; but the not-logged-in'- SMDR-Connection is nasty, 
since every tool using TSA to
connect to this file-server will fail, regardless to the user-account.
I don't know how to clear this connection, merely by rebooting the fileservers.

Obviously it has to be a Novell problem, but in coherence with other 
backup-products, using the SMS-API of
Novell, such problems aren't mentioned.

Maybe someone can help me ...

regards
markus

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