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by justanadmin 1 view

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We are running Novell 4.11 with Novell client version 4.83. Here is the problem.

1. When viewing the last login time in netware administrator, the times for various users are all over the place. Some are accurate, some show last login was Nov. 2002. I have also noticed that may are showing the exact same time (sometime in Nov.).

2. When a password expires, we have some people using grace logins, but the grace login amount doesn't decrement. So, they essentially can continue on without having to ever change a password.

Any thoughts/ideas would really be appreciated!

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by deroode

It seems that something went wrong with NDS on November 2002. Somehow the login isn't logged anymore, so the last login time isn't updated, and grace logins are not adjusted.

Try running DSRepair, repeat until no further errors. Make sure you have installed NW4SP9.

by justanadmin

We ran DSRepair before updating to SP9 and it completed successfully (this was in January). Unfortunately, the problems I described continue.

by rogerndgreen

When you ran Dsrepair, did you use the -a to get to the advanced options menu?
What version DS.NLM are you running?
I run NW4.11 myself, with SP9 and similar client revisions, but haven't seen this problem myself.
However, DS.NLM v8.73 which was installed with NW5SP6, reportedly fixed "an issue" where grace logins did not decrement correctly.
Sorry, but I don't have anything more than this to offer.

Roger

by pierrejamme

Make sure you are using the latest clients
Set Limit Grace Logins to 1
Check out TID: "User can login unlimited number of times if Limit grace logins is not activated. - TID10023612"
for further information.

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