Microsoft KB Archive/86088

= PC WSPlus: Dynamic Connections Do Not Show Busy Times =

Article ID: 86088

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Schedule+ 1.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q86088



SYMPTOMS
You may not be able to see users' free and busy times when you use dynamic connections to connect to their postoffices.



CAUSE
This problem can occur in Novell if there are not enough available drive mappings to connect to those postoffices. This problem can also occur if you do not have enough available drives to connect with all the different postoffices.



MORE INFORMATION
Novell 2.2 and 3.1 users can use the full alphabet for drive mappings (including mapping Novell resources over local resources) but are limited to eight server attachments when using NETX.COM or NET.EXE. This means Novell users can have any number (up to 26) of letters mapped to any available directory resources on up to eight Netware servers. Schedule+ can make dynamic connections to other postoffices, retrieve meeting data as needed, and break the connection when it is no longer needed.

So, if six server connections are already in use and a meeting list with three users from three postoffices on three unconnected servers is created, one of the three user names shows up with a gray check mark next to it, indicating that information from that server is not available. This is because Schedule+ made two additional connections dynamically, then tried to make the last one and ran into the limit. This limit is fixed in Novell version 4.0 and later.

Microsoft's LAN Manager and other MS-NET compatible networks are limited to the LASTDRIVE setting in the user's CONFIG.SYS file for a maximum of 23 network connections.

If there is at least one available mapping, the user's schedule can be seen by removing the user from the meetings list, removing other users from different postoffices from the meeting list, closing the meetings dialog box and reopening it before adding the user back in. When you add the user a second time, the dynamic connection is attempted again.

Additional query words: schedule plus

Keywords: KB86088

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