I am in the middle of upgrading clients from 5.08 to 6.5 and moving them from server1 to server2. The server and all users are on W2K.
When trying to replicate from a client machine that had replications set up prior to the upgrade, it errors with the server is not responding or the network is down. I have gone in and deleted and recreated all location and connection documents.
I am able to access server copies of the databases without a problem, so I don’t feel this is a problem with the connections.
On a machine that didn’t have any replications prior to the upgrade, I set up a replication of their mail, and it works fine.
Any help with this would be great, since I have about 45 users that replicate daily. And many of them I am going to have to walk through fixing their machines.
I tried your suggestion, I have even gone so far as to delete the local copy, both from the workspace, and from the lotus/notes/data directory and create a new replica, I get the same server is not responding, the server may be down… But I can the replicate with options just fine, then I try from the replication page again and it bombs.
Before you go through the steps in my previous post, you may want to remove the entry for the database from the replication page. When you replicate with options a new one will be created.
Seems like the server address/host name is being (incorrectly) cached. There is a notes.ini variable for avoiding remembering “old” addresses, Dont_Use_Remembered_Addresses=1
Worth a try, otherwise you could try deleting the cache, depending on your environment this could be automated.