Have you tried moving the entire section of backup commands to the
bottom of the autoexec.ncf?  Could just be a load-timing issue.  So that
the bottom of the autoexec, you'd have something like this...

search add sys:\tivoli\tsm\client\ba
smsstart
dsmcad



>>> boutilpj AT EDNET.NS DOT CA 2/24/2006 10:58 AM >>>
Troy Frank wrote:
> We're running tsm5.3.2-fix2 on several nw6.5 servers here (various
patch
> levels). I can't say I've ever seen the issue you mention. When you
> say you're starting dsmc from autoexec.bat, do you really mean
dsmcad?
>

dsmc sched


dsmcad does the same thing though. Same errors from autoexec.ncf but
will load from console when Netware is completely booted.


>
>>>> boutilpj AT EDNET.NS DOT CA 2/24/2006 8:57 AM >>>
> Anybody successfully running the 5.3.2.x client on Netware 6.5 (sp5)
?
> Our problem here is that when dsmc is set to start from autoexec.ncf
> we
> get the following errors. Works fine if you start dsmc after the
> server
> is fully booted. Notice now the server name is missing before \SYS ?
>
>
>
>
>
> ANS1035S Options file '\SYS:TIVOLI/TSM/CLIENT/BA/dsm.opt' could not
be
> found.
>
> ANS0102W Unable to open the message repository
> \SYS:TIVOLI/TSM/CLIENT/BA/dscenu. txt. The American English
repository
> will be used instead.
>
> ANS1398E Initialization functions cannot open one of the Tivoli
> Storage
> Manager logs or a related file:
> \SYS:TIVOLI/TSM/CLIENT/BA/dsmerror.log.
> errno = 6, Permi ssion denied
>
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