Nici Installation Failed - 1497; Naming Objects; Nici Does Not Get Installed In The Server Mode On Windows; Configuration - Novell EDIRECTORY 8.8 Troubleshooting Manual

NICI Installation Failed - 1497

NICI initialization failed means the NFK file is not right. Ensure that you have the right NFK file.
This problem might not come on Linux and UNIX platforms as by default the NFK file is part of
the NICI package.

Naming Objects

When you use special characters while naming objects, the -
message appears. Avoid using any of the following special characters when naming objects:
\ /, * ? .

NICI Does Not Get Installed in the Server Mode on Windows

In the Properties dialog box of the NICIFK file there is a tab called Security. If there are no names
in the Group or user names field, then this issue occurs.
To work around this problem, do the following:

Configuration

Tree Name Lookup Failed: -632 Error While Configuring eDirectory 8.8 on Linux

While configuring eDirectory 8.8 on Linux, you might get the Tree name lookup failed: -632 error.
To resolve this, do the following:

Multiple Instances

If the First Instance is Down, HTTP Does Not Work

On Linux and UNIX platforms, if eDirectory is configured on a box with multiple NIC cards and
if HTTP is bound to more than one interface; if the first interface goes down, HTTP would not be
accessible from the remaining interfaces.
This is because the remaining interfaces will redirect the request to the first one, but the first
interface is down.
To resolve this issue, if the first interface goes down, restart eDirectory.
1
Remove the NICIFK file.
This is present in C:/Windows/system32/novell/nici if the system root is C:/Windows/
system32. If the system root is F:/Windows/system32 then this file is present in F:/Windows/
system32/novell/nici.
2
Install eDirectory.
1
After installing the SLP package, ensure that you manually start SLP as follows:
/etc/init.d/slpuasa start
2
After uninstalling the SLP package, ensure that you manually stop SLP as follows:
/etc/init.d/slpuasa stop
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