Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!UPENN!WIECEK From: WIECEK%wharton@UPENN.EDU (Sophie L. Wiecek) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell Subject: Intermittent network problem Message-ID: <9002011555.AA17805@remote.dccs.upenn.edu> Date: 1 Feb 90 14:53:00 GMT Sender: Novell LAN Interest Group Reply-To: Novell LAN Interest Group Lines: 32 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway Return-Path: X-Vms-To: IN%"novell@suvm.bitnet",WIECEK Hi all, I am a networking novice with a weird intermittent problem. Our setup: Server - HP Vectra RS20, 155 Mb ESDI, 4 Mb RAM Netware 286 2.15 40 286 HP ES/12 workstations NICs - 3Com Etherlink II (3c501) In the server we also have a Western Digital (WD8003) card, which is LAN B (20 more 286 wkst'ns). However we haven't had this second logical lan attached in a while. Problem: Network has been fine for over a month, when we put in the new file server. Last week when I was away, users couldn't connect -- They got the "File Server could not be found" message. But by the time I got back, it had "fixed itself"...no one had rebooted the server while I was gone, and I couldn't find any problems. Now, a week later, it has started again! I tested all the cabling. I cut off the segment after the 1st workstation and I'm still not connecting. I've tried a different NIC in the server, different slot, everything I can think of. What do I try now? I thought the next step might be to reconfigure the Netware to take out the Western Digital internal bridge. I had just left it there because it didn't seem to be disturbing anything and we *do* plan to reconnect the WD machines sometime in the future Thanks for any help! Sophie Wiecek The Wharton School -- Univ of PA