I need your help, I am at a loss with a problem that is starting to occur on my Network. I have a network that has a mixture of Windows 95 and Windows 2000 machines, we have Netware 5.1 and Active directory servers. I have searched the Internet and Novells sites, but cannot find a solution. Please help. We have several users now that when they login the login script doesn't execute, not all users only a few, but there is more and more each day. I can have them login to several different types of workstations (ie. W95 or W2K), but it just doesn't run, so I know it isn't a client configuration issue. I can also login to the same computer and the script will run fine. I tried adding a mapping to each of their users login scripts to try and see if it was a problem with our organizational login script, but still nothing. I tried to login using the command line to login and did see an error: Login-4.13 (960913) PTF-240: This utility was unable to open script file . I also tried restarting the server and ran DSREPAIR until it found no new errors. The only thing the users have in common is that the problem appears to start when the users change their passwords and none of the users are new, they have all been here for at least a few months. They are in a mixture of different OU and groups.

I failed to mention that it is the Novell login script that is not running, we do not use the W2K Active Directory scripts.

Where are thier login scripts? Are you using OU login scripts or user login scripts? this can be tough but I have experienced a lack of a end to a if member of "" statement. I have also seen where if I deleted blank area the script worked correctly. Worse case rewrite the script. I do belive your issue is the script and nothing else. Figure out what works and where is breaks.

There is only one script, and it runs at the root of the tree. All users run the same script. What doesn't make sense to me is that if I put any sort of line in the users login script, like a mapping, it won't even read that. I can login to the same computer and it runs the script fine. I tried removing the users from all groups and that didn't help. The script will run fine for the user, but when they change their password, the problem begins. I had thought that it was an issue with the login script at first, but I can't get them to read any portion of the script. Is it possible that there is some sort of corruption with my NDS?

Was able to solve this puzzle. Novell TID10054481