As it turns out, we couldn't ping the server when it became unaccessible.
There's a monitor server here that does regular ping tests on the site, and it
recorded the Netware server in question as going down roughly the same time our
backup died, and TCP didn't come back online until we rebooted the box in the
morning....

regards,

Paul

Quoting roger_nadler AT sonymusic DOT com:

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> Can you ping the server when the server is no longer accessible? Does the
> server hold a copy (Master or R/W) of the replica? If the server is still
> on the wire but not accessible by a Novell Client, it could just be the NDS
> loggout..............
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>                                        Re: Fw: Netware 4.1, Client 4.1.3
>                                        and Network Failure during backup?
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> Hi Roger,
> The prerequisite NLMs are at the same or higher versions than is listed in
> the
> readme.  There isn't anything that I know of auto logging out users, and
> nothing in the log seemed to indicate this.   It appears that the entire
> network stack(s?) got hammered, perhaps the getting logged out of the NDS
> is
> simply a symptom of this?.   The fact that the server is *completely*
> inaccessable via network via IPX or TCP until the reboot was done is quite
> disconcerting.... :)
>
> regards,
>
> Paul
>
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> Quoting roger_nadler AT sonymusic DOT com:
> > The Novell Client for 4.x requires the TSA410.NLM as well as the
> TSANDS.NLM
> > (The versions required should be in the readme). These agent nlm's are
> what
> > allows TSM to open the files for backup. It appears from your messgaes
> that
> > the server connections to the NDS are being broken (logout). That is why
> > your antivirus is also logged out. This will cause TSM to break it's
> > connections. Is it possible that you are running somethin that will auto
> > loggout users? The dsm.opt file specifies what nwuser to be logged in as.
> > Look in your console log and see if that user is being logged out at the
> > time the connection is broken..........
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