We had the same thing happen with Netware 6. After my 2nd or 3rd TSM support
call we finally found someone that new about the NETDB fix (as referred to
by Shannon in the bottom of this e-mail). That one was a real pain to figure
out but worked great after we added NETDB.NLM.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shannon Bach" <SBach AT MGE DOT COM>
To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: Unable to load dsmcad.nlm or dsmc.nlm or Netware 6 server-
Solution but not cause


> Peter Hadikin wrote to the list the following;
>
> I have a server that I am trying to load DSMCAD.NLM version 5.1.5.1.
>  When I try to load the NLM I get a message similar to the following:
>
>  Loading Modules DSMCAD.NLM                       [UNRESOLVED]
>
>  I have re-installed the TSM software with no benefit.  There are no
>  errors in the DSM error log.  The servers in question is a clustered
>  server running Netware 6 and it did work with this software for at least
>  10 days.  What is up with this???? Any ideas?
>  Thanks, Peter
>
> This same thing happened to me so I will tell you how we handled it.
>
> Novell NetWare OS 5.6 was a TSM Client 5.1.0
> The client server was running fine for several months.  Every six months
it
> is brought down for maintenance.  This time when bringing it back up, the
> TSM client would not load, displaying the same error as above on the NW
> console.  The NetWare Administrator then installed the newest client,
> 5.1.5.1, but client still would not load.  When looking on the Novell
> website there was no mention of a problem with TSM.  When doing a search
> with the exact error on NW console there was another issue that came up.
> It seems the netdb.nlm did not automatically load when the rest of them
> did.  When looking at our other running NW6 clients they all had netdb.nlm
> loaded and they have not been brought down since upgrading.  We don't know
> if this will eventually happen to all our NW6 clients with TSM client 5.1
> and above or not.  The administrator put the netdb.nlm in some autoexec
> thing (I'm  NetWare challenged) that automatically loads all the needed
> extra NLM's and everything is now fine.  Don't know if others have run
into
> this problem but since there wasn't a solution on the list I thought to
> post this just in case.
>
> Shannon
>
> Madison Gas & Electric Co.
> Operations Analyst - Data Center Services
> Office 608-252-7260
> Fax 608-252-7098
> e-mail sbach AT mge DOT com