>From the server, try issuing...

savegrp -p -c client_3 -G the_group_name_you_use

does that list the volumes you'd expect or does that also error out?

Allan


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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Len Philpot
Sent: 28 April 2010 15:24
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Netware client - "No such file or directory" errors on 
backup

We have a few Netware 6.5 clients and one of them is suddenly returning 
errors when backups start:

04/28/10 09:05:55 savegrp: client_3:probe unexpectedly exited.
* client_3:SY2: 3 retries attempted
* client_3:SY2: nsrexec: authtype
* client_3:SY2: No such file or directory
04/28/10 09:05:55 savegrp: client_3:probe will retry 2 more time(s)

...etc. *instantly* when the group starts. It runs through 5 retries (as 
we're configured) and goes away.

>From the client side, we can connect and browse indexes, although we 
didn't actually try to recover anything. This system had the latest 7.1 
client I referenced in a recent post (yesterday), but strangely had no 
issues with it. The Netware admin working on it put the previous client 
back in place for consistency with the other systems and now all backup 
attemps return the above error. Nothing at all has changed server-side. 
The saveset volumes are explicitly specified (eg., SYS:, SY2:) just like 
all the other Netware clients and have always worked in the past. 

Anyone have any clue as to what we've missed in going from one client to 
the other on the Netware box? What have we not put back?

All volumes are indeed mounted and currently in use by more than a few 
users (this is a file / app / home dir server), so we can't do anything 
interruptive. I remember seeing these kind of errors long ago on a 
different Netware box but unfortunately my memory isn't that good.

Thanks!

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