Environment
Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 6
Situation
After updating to NetWare 6.5 SP6, users with a very long FDN
(Fully Distinguished Name) are failing to login through FTP.
Resolution
NWFTPD.NLM relies on login calls in NETNLM32.NLM to
authenticate users. In SP6, certain functions of NETNLM32 are
now being redirected through NMAS. The interaction between
NETNLM32 and NMAS had some buffers which were not large enough to
hold all the information that might be necessary for users with
long FDNs.
The buffers in NETNLM32.NLM have been increased. This
change is provided in NetWare 6.5 SP7, but can also be obtained for
SP6 in library update libcsp6b.zip.