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by danniebrown2002

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We?re running a Novell 6 network. We added a second Novell 6 server to our tree. After we added the second server the ?Groups? that were once assigned to our Primary server are now assigned to our secondary server. However, our users were not assigned to the secondary server.

To send a message to the a group we right click on the Red N\NetWare Utilities\Send Message\To Users - At this point I select the server and then click Show Groups. All of our groups are located under our secondary server. I created a new group in the tree and found that it also is being assigned to our secondary server.

We?re not sure exactly why this has happened nor can we find any documentation on it.

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by budthegrey

To my knowledge, there's no direct relation between groups and a specific server. You can give groups rights to files & queues on the server, and you can do things in the login script based on group membership.

We have a mixed NW5.1 and 6.0 network. On whichever of my server I pick when I do the RedN/util/Send/ message, when I click "show Groups" I can see all the groups. If I send a message, only members of that group *who are authenticated to that server* will get the message.

I appears that the utility doesn't do any filtering so that all you see are groups who have someone authenticated to that server.

hth

by efrahm

the ?groups? and users you are seeing are in the send message utility. this utility is server-based, and will send messages to users who authenticated to that server only. it lists the 'groups' because it found them listed in NDS. you can change the view to show groups and/or users. make sure you have it set to show users, then realize that only users that have to access that server for a resource will authenticate to it and show up in the send message utility.

by danniebrown2002

Yes, the groups and users are in the send message utility. I realize the send messages to users are based upon authentication to the server. That is what has us puzzled. Are users are authenticating to their respected server. However, all groupsare located under our Secondary server. Initially all our Groups were located under our primary server in the send message utility. After we added our second Novell server all of our groups are now located under our secondary server in the send message utility. After creating several new groups we went back to the send message utility and looked under our servers. Again our groups are located under the secondary server not the primary. I created these groups using NWAdmin on our primary server.

I also tried creating a test group using Console One. After creating the group, Test, I was able to say which server I wanted the group assigned to. I chose our Primary server. I then went back into the send message utility and noticed that once again the group was located under our secondary server.

Hope this clarifies our problem. Any other suggestions?

by tbragsda

Wheres your Bindery Context set on the new server. I think the "groups" under the send app, just show whats in the current CX.

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