Error: DB33 connecting to GW Domain in Nwadmn32

  • 3325162
  • 07-Nov-2007
  • 26-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell NetWare for Small Business 4.11
Novell Small Business Suite 5.0
Novell GroupWise on Small Business Suite.
NetWare Administrator 32 (NWADMN32.EXE)

Situation

Error: DB33 connecting to GW Domain in Nwadmn32
Error: Unable to access domain at path specified. Please select a valid domain.
Cannot access all post offices

Resolution

If you are seeing this problem while trying to merge the system to another system do the following. Create a Secondary domain if one does not already exist and promote it to primary. You should then be able to copy the wpdomain.db to a temp directory as described in tid 3276926"How To Merge Two GroupWise Systems That Exist In Two Trees" and complete the merge

Additional Information

This is a limitation of the NetWare for Small Business and the'Express Install'.
In the domain database the paths to the domain and post office are'hashed' and cannot be changed. This is true of the NetWare for Small Business 4.11 and 5 and the 'Express install' of the shipping GroupWise 5.5 program. Therefore, the domain and post office structures cannot be moved on the current server or to another server.

Formerly known as TID# 10016827