Re: Access denied error trying to copy PDFs from IFS to my workstation

Some of the difference may be due to case differences. If your windows
password is all upper case, or all lower case, then IBM i can do a pretty
good job of matching. But if you use mixed case then it's a whole
different ball game. We were having much issues with users when they did
that and we told them to pick a case. But that was mainly coming the
other way, from PC to IBM i, not QNTC.
We went through a bunch of security changes when we were purchased by a
public company and now we run at QPWDLVL=3. Mixed case is not a problem
anymore.
Before you change to that you are going to want to read up on that. Start
with the Knowledge Center.
Don't bother with 2. We tried and ran into issues I can't even remember
and quickly jumped to 3.

I think we did run into issues with a higher level of Windows too so that
may be part of your issue also.

You DID create a share on your PC, right? You're not just assuming that
one can get to a directory? For example, if you are on another PC in your
company and you go to \\jeffspc you should see a list of shares on that
PC. And just because you are some Godlike Domain Admin remember the trick
of \\jeffspc\c$ isn't really an IBM i supported thing.
Oh, and somewhat related... You have NO shares defined on your PC that
have names longer than ?11? characters, right? It's some low number like
that. Having a longer share name can totally disrupt QNTC, even if you
are not accessing that share.
For example if you have these shares defined on your laptop:
\\jeffspc\BRMS
\\jeffspc\Executive
\\jeffspc\JeffsCollectionOf80sDiscoHits
Then just trying to access /QNTC/jeffspc/BRMS from IBM i will act sporadic
(at best) just because of the existence of that long share name. It's a
known issue which affects IBM i, System Z and more. I have a RFE to
change that and IBM has accepted it as a future wish.


Rob Berendt