PC WSPlus: Dynamic Connections Limited to 8 Netware Servers
Article ID: 139286
Article Last Modified on 8/18/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Schedule+ 1.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Schedule+ 1.0a
This article was previously published under Q139286
SUMMARY
When you use Schedule+ for Windows connected to a postoffice via Novell
NetWare, and you attempt to open other user's appointment book, you may
receive the following error:
The schedule file could not be opened. You may not have the
necessary access privileges or the file is unavailable.
CAUSE
This will only occur if you are using Dynamic Connections and already have
eight (8) or more connections from the workstation to NetWare servers.
RESOLUTION
Disconnect one of your existing mappings to another NetWare server until
the number of connections is below seven (7).
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in versions 1.0 and 1.0a of
Microsoft Schedule+ for Windows. We are researching this problem and will
post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes
available.
MORE INFORMATION
With Schedule+, you can open other appointment books across servers. In the
early implementations of Novell NetWare where NETX and IPX drivers were
being loaded, NetWare placed a limitation of eight concurrent connections
to NetWare servers. With the invent of the Novell NetWare Virtual Loadable
Modules (VLM), the NetWare OS allowed you to connect up to 50 NetWare
servers. However, the NVCONN.DLL that was written for Schedule+, contained
the NetWare code as written that limited the concurrent connections to
eight.
Additional query words: schedule plus novel dynamic connections
Keywords: KB139286