Since 2005-12-23 an agent that ran fine before stopped working. I use the Dir$ function on a network path (\server\share\path\file) to determine if an export file already exists. Domino runs as a service, but using a user account to avoid access problems. Our admins say they didn’t change any configuration but i wonder what else could have caused the function to produce an error. I created a database for testing on that server, and there’s the same problem: Dir$ on a local path works fine, but Dir$ on an UNC path leads to “illegal function call”. On another (test) server, there’s no problem.
Subject: RE: Dir$ on UNC path leads to “illegal function call”
We got it running again. They changed the password of the user account the server runs as and that seemed to cause the problem. But why was the error “illegal function call” instead of something like “no access rights”? I still do not understand why Domino could start if the password was incorrect though.