PC WSPlus: Dynamic Connections Do Not Show Busy Times (86088)

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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.