Re: The AS/400 and 'srvsvc'

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try the midrange mailing list as that is where this belongs.

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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Timothy Briley <tlbriley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> While this doesn't have anything to do with Domino, it does have
> something to do with AS/400's. Since most of us wear more than one
> hat, I'm betting that someone reading this has run across the issue
> below and has a suggestion.
>
> The issue:
> Our server is a System i 9406-520 V6R1 at 10047 with all Netserver
> PTFs applied. Our PC's are Dell's, mostly running XP, but the new
> ones run Windows 7. Word docs, spreadsheets, and PDF's located in the
> IFS both open and save normally on the XP PC's, but take several
> times longer on the Windows 7 PC's. Coworkers are starting to ask for
> their old XP PC's back.
>
> Steps we've taken:
> I've talked to both Dell and IBM about this. IBM ran a trace and gave
> me the following response:
>
> "NetServer development has reviewed the trace and found that this is
> a case of the Windows client spending a lot of time trying to access
> '/srvsvc'. Windows attempts to open a named pipe (srvsvc) that
> NetServer does not support. NetServer returns a normal
> OPERATION_NOT_SUPPORTED error, It appears that the Windows side is
> doing some sort of delayed retry of an operation after NetServer
> returns to error on the connection to srvsvc."
>
> We applied IBM's suggestions, starting the web client automatically
> and disabling offline files, but nothing has helped.
>
>
> Do any of you have any suggestions?
>
> Timothy Briley
> tlbriley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 850 273-1433 cell
> Florida Board of Bar Examiners
>
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