Error: "Cannot perform login: <username>" when logging in on OES Linux

Document ID:7011399
Creation Date:20-Nov-2012
Modified Date:07-Apr-2013
- Micro Focus Products:
  Client for Open Enterprise Server (Novell Client)

Environment

Novell Client for Linux
OES 2 SP3

Situation

When a user tries to login to a Novell server using a command line such as:

nwlogin -s 10.1.1.1 -u admin -c mycontext -t mytree

they get the following error:

Cannot perform login: admin.mycontext is not a user object

Resolution

Follow the steps to fix/restore the registry configuration on the OES Server found in Section 8.15 of the "NetStorage Administration Guide for Linux" entitled "Losing Registry Information After an Upgrade from OES 2 SP2 to OES 2 SP3."

Additional Information

Hint: View the versions of Novell Client related modules using this command:

rpm -q novell-client novell-client-script novell-novfsd novell-xtier-base novell-xtier-core novell-xtier-xplat