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Event Viewer Records Event ID 8020 Errors for the Directory Service Manager for NetWare

Article ID: 255212

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition



This article was previously published under Q255212

SYMPTOMS

Event Viewer records the following Event ID 8020 error message for the Directory Service Manager for NetWare (DSMN):

Event ID 8020
The synch agent services failed to modify account [username] on the NetWare server [servername] due to error 10256
The synch agent services failed to modify account [username] on the NetWare server [servername] due to error 10239


RESOLUTION

To work around this behavior, do one of the following:

  1. Remove the specified user account from the NetWare-based server. DSMN then recreates the account as part of the normal synchronization.
  2. Remove the NetWare-based server from DSMN management, and then add it back.


MORE INFORMATION

To determine what DSMN action caused the error, subtract 10001 from the error (10256 - 10001) or (10239 - 10001), and convert the decimal number to hexadecimal. The hexadecimal number is the NetWare error returned to DSMN by NetWare when the error occurred.

The error 10239 maps to a NetWare error of 238(EE), which maps to ERROR_OBJECT_ALREADY_EXISTS. The error 10256 maps to a generic NetWare error of 255(FF). This can be any of several errors, depending on the DSMN actions.

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