KB197852 - Troubleshooting Directory Service Manager for NetWare

Article ID: 197852

Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006

Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q197852

SUMMARY

Directory Service Manager for NetWare (DSMN) comes with three utilities that are useful for troubleshooting: DSMPACK, DSMCHK and DSMDUMP.

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NOTE: DSMPACK is installed by default; DSMCHK and DSMDUMP must be manually EXPANDed from the installation medium.

DSMPACK is a utility similar to Jetpack (for WINS) and is used to repair and compress the DSMN database. This utility can be used if a system crashes or power outage causes unexpected errors, or the DSMN Service fails to start. To use DSMPACK, following these steps:

Open a command prompt.
Change to the DSMN database path (%SystemRoot%\System32\Syncagnt).
Stop the DMSN service (for example, by typing "net stop mssync").
Type "dsmpack /r" to defragment and repair the database.
Restart the DSMN service.

Sample output

   Microsoft (R) DSMN Database Compaction Utility
   Version 4.0
   Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996.  All Rights Reserved.

   Initiating DEFRAGMENTATION mode (with REPAIR option)...
           Database: C:\WINNT40\System32\SyncAgnt\mssync.mdb
          Log files: C:\WINNT40\System32\SyncAgnt
       System files: C:\WINNT40\System32\SyncAgnt
     Temp. Database: C:\WINNT40\System32\SyncAgnt\mssync.tmp
    Backup Database: C:\WINNT40\System32\SyncAgnt\mssync.bkp

                        Repair Status  ( % complete )

             0    10   20   30   40   50   60   70   80   90  100
             |----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
             ...................................................

   Operation completed successfully in 6.28 seconds.

DSMCHK can be used to check the synchronization state of a user (for example, in the logon script). The syntax for DSMCHK is:

   Usage: dsmchk -d DomainName -u UserName

                [-n NetWareServerName] [-r Number1:Number2]
          where Number1 : The number of retries
                Number2 : The interval in seconds between the retries

NOTE: Use %USERDOMAIN% and %USERNAME% in a logon script.

For additional information on DSMCHK, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

154760 How to Use the DSMN Utility to Verify Synchronized Passwords

DSMDUMP dumps the database used by DSMN to the screen. This is useful in verifying that all your accounts and groups are replicated correctly. To use DSMDUMP, follow these steps:

Open a command prompt.
Change to the DSMN database path (%SystemRoot%\System32\Syncagnt).
Stop the DMSN service (for example, type "net stop mssync").
Type dsmdump.
Restart the DSMN service.

If might be useful to redirect DSMDUMP'S output to a file, for example, type "dsmdump >db.txt".

Sample output

   ---------------------   SERVER TABLE   ---------------------

   ------------------------------------------------------------

   --------------------   ACCOUNT TABLE   ---------------------

   1) DOMAIN ADMINS
      Rid = 512   Type = Global Group  State = Normal
      Local groups containing this global group = 544
      Propagated to servers = NULL
      LOCAL:      Version = 1

   2) DOMAIN USERS
      Rid = 513   Type = Global Group  State = Normal
      Local groups containing this global group = NULL
      Propagated to servers = NULL
      LOCAL:      Version = 1

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