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Anybody using an ADIC VLS DLT changer with their filer?
by Jaye Mathisen 09 Apr '99

09 Apr '99

I'm not having much luck with it unloading and sequencing the next tape...

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Microsoft Appliances?
by Paul English 09 Apr '99

09 Apr '99

Oh boy, I can't wait, hold me back. http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,34836,00.html I think I'll stick with a toaster... -- Paul English (Tallpaul) (508) 647-7715 tallpaul(a)mathworks.com (508) 647-7015 FAX Walkie Channel 2

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RE: Ridiculously easy question...
by Will Harper 09 Apr '99

09 Apr '99

This really isn't a simple question. First, is the app running as a service, or is the machine left with a "user" logged on? I presume you are talking about the app running on an NT server... If the app is running as a user, the problem is trivial, put a net use command in that user's logon script. If the app is running as a service, (and nobody is logged on when it is running), the plot thickens. There is NO CLEAN answer that I know of. There are some NT registry hacks to run an application at startup. This app can be a script. Alternately, you can run a script from the windows AT command (or the easier WINAT, inf the resource kit). The main issue will be making sure the same "username" is running all of the processes, because of possible conflicts in permissions. Attached are a couple of clippings from TechNet, which MAY work. I haven't tried them. Good luck Will Harper, MCSE -----Original Message----- From: Jaye Mathisen [SMTP:mrcpu@internetcds.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 3:53 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Ridiculously easy question... I'm just starting to use CIFS, and everything works fine, except one minor problem... I would like NT (4.0SP4, if it matters), to attach a drive on system startup, rather than having to be logged in... For various reasons, I cannot use UNC paths in my application, so I need to map the drive when the system boots, with a username and password... Is this possible? My filer is running 4.3.4, but I think I'm going to upgrade tonight to 5.2.1...

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Not a server
by JD Ambagtsheer 09 Apr '99

09 Apr '99

I'm a Student and working on a migration project. Now I have the following question: I want to migrate from Novell Netware 3.x to my Netapp (F720). I want to realise this with a programm called "Netware Migration tool (Nwconv). If I want to choose a Windows NT server and I select the Netapp (he is in a domain called D00) the programm comes back with the following problem: "cannot connect to server: The Network name cannot be found". I don't know if this is a problem on the Netapp (perhaps a services or something) or that I have to look somewhere else Greetings, Jan-Dirk

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Re: Need help regarding quotas
by sirbruce＠ix.netcom.com 09 Apr '99

09 Apr '99

On 04/09/99 00:05:17 you wrote: >Our problem is that it displays too much. We automount each user's home >directory. Since we want to permit them to write into each others >directory we have quotas on the qtree housing users' directories. >Unfortunately that file system is mounted once for every user :(((((((((. >Running quota -v displays data related to every home directory mounted on >the box. Unfortunately, it appears that Sun does not support the >automounter ":" path option in Solaris 2.6 which would fix the problem. How about just mounting the filesystems noquota? The filer won't care. >We automount each users home directory because we want to have a >data location independent pathing, i.e. /home/tkaczma instead of >/home/filer2/tkaczma. This prevents a lot of headaches when users' >directories are moved for some reason, like due to disaster recovery or >some migration. You might consider using symlinks instead. Bruce

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RE: Ridiculously easy question...
by Phillips, John 08 Apr '99

08 Apr '99

There is a Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit utility named "autoexnt" can be used to ensure the redirector is started and the connection is made to the filer at boot up. You must have a copy of the Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit, and the companion CD. Autoexnt is installed by simply copying autoexnt.exe and servmess.dll from the \ntreskit directory to the Systemroot\System32 directory. Create a batch file with the commands to map a drive to the Filer and save it as "autoexnt.bat" in the Systemroot\System32 directory. Type "instexnt install" at the command prompt to install the service. Use the /interactive switch if you want to see the commands executing in a command window during boot time ("instexnt install /interactive"). For example: D:\ntreskit.40>instexnt install /interactive CreateService AutoExNT SUCCESS with InterActive Flag turned ON. Finally, to configure the AutoExNT service to run when you start your computer (during boot) 1. Double-click Services in Control Panel. 2. In the Services list, click AutoExNT. 3. Click Startup and, in the Startup Type box, click Automatic. 4. Choose OK. Example autoexnt.bat: d:\winnt\system32\net start workstation d:\winnt\system32\net use t: \\toaster\home If you log in, the drive is already mapped and shows up in Windows Explorer. You cannot "disconnect" the drive mapping from within explorer which insulates it from user error a bit as well. Good luck! John Phillips Network Appliance > -----Original Message----- > From: Jaye Mathisen [mailto:mrcpu@internetcds.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 12:53 PM > To: toasters(a)mathworks.com > Subject: Ridiculously easy question... > > > > I'm just starting to use CIFS, and everything works fine, > except one minor > problem... > > I would like NT (4.0SP4, if it matters), to attach a drive on system > startup, rather than having to be logged in... > > For various reasons, I cannot use UNC paths in my > application, so I need > to map the drive when the system boots, with a username and > password... > > Is this possible? > > My filer is running 4.3.4, but I think I'm going to upgrade tonight to > 5.2.1... >

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Ridiculously easy question...
by Jaye Mathisen 08 Apr '99

08 Apr '99

I'm just starting to use CIFS, and everything works fine, except one minor problem... I would like NT (4.0SP4, if it matters), to attach a drive on system startup, rather than having to be logged in... For various reasons, I cannot use UNC paths in my application, so I need to map the drive when the system boots, with a username and password... Is this possible? My filer is running 4.3.4, but I think I'm going to upgrade tonight to 5.2.1...

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RE: Ridiculously easy question...
by Benn, Paul 08 Apr '99

08 Apr '99

Hello Jaye, This is possible with the AutoExNT service that comes with the NT resource kit. I have its use documented in an NT Backup paper that I recently published. You can find it at: http://www.netapp.com/technology/level3/3052.html#Sect2.3 Hope this helps. Regards, Paul Benn Network Appliance -----Original Message----- From: Jaye Mathisen [mailto:mrcpu@internetcds.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 12:53 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Ridiculously easy question... I'm just starting to use CIFS, and everything works fine, except one minor problem... I would like NT (4.0SP4, if it matters), to attach a drive on system startup, rather than having to be logged in... For various reasons, I cannot use UNC paths in my application, so I need to map the drive when the system boots, with a username and password... Is this possible? My filer is running 4.3.4, but I think I'm going to upgrade tonight to 5.2.1...

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Re: Need help regarding quotas
by dnb＠ccs.neu.edu 08 Apr '99

08 Apr '99

Luke Mewburn <lukem(a)cs.rmit.edu.au> writes: > This is *damned* annoying. With 2500 students all hammering one > of my filers (a F330 in this case), we generally get /etc/messages.? Yep, we see the same thing here. Here's a trivial Perl script I run the end of the week autosupport mail through which boils the messages portion down to a more readable form. It certainly could be made to do more sophisticated tricks. Here's the output: ----------------- ==== Quota exceeded ==== achervin bdowling csaia frodo jack138 jeffno johan jsl santana stellato ==== Tree quota exceeded ==== proj ==== Unknown messages ==== Sun Mar 28 00:00:06 EST [asup_main]: System Notification mail sent Sun Mar 28 01:00:01 EST [raid_scrub_admin]: Beginning disk scrubbing... Sun Mar 28 02:36:03 EST [consumer]: Scrub found 0 parity inconsistencies Sun Mar 28 02:36:03 EST [consumer]: Scrub found 0 media errors Sun Mar 28 02:36:03 EST [consumer]: Disk scrubbing finished... Mon Mar 29 00:24:09 EST [tn_login_0]: Login from host: amber Mon Mar 29 19:23:03 EST [isp2100_main]: Disk 0a.18(0xfffffc0000be06f0): opcode=0x2a sector 0 not ready - Drive spinning up (2 4, 1) Mon Mar 29 19:24:00 EST [isp2100_main]: Disk 0a.18(0xfffffc0000be06f0): request failed after retry #20 Mon Mar 29 19:24:00 EST [raid_stripe_owner]: Write on data disk 0a.18 in volume proj, RAID group 0, failed; reverting to degraded mode. Mon Mar 29 19:24:04 EST [raid_stripe_owner]: Write on data disk 0a.18 in volume proj, RAID group 0, failed; entered degraded mode. Mon Mar 29 19:24:04 EST [raid_stripe_owner]: One disk is missing from volume proj, RAID group 0. A "hot spare" disk is available and the missing disk will be reconstructed on the spare disk. ------------- And here's the script: ----------- #!/usr/local/bin/perl # parse netapp autosupport mail and show it to us nicely use Text::Wrap; while (<>){ last if (index($_,"===== MESSAGES =====") > -1); } while($_ = <>){ next if /\[statd\]/; next if (index($_,"last message repeated") > -1); next if (index($_,"../common/ndmpd/comm.c") > -1); if (/uid\s(\d+).*exceeded on volume (.*)/){ $user = ((exists $users{$1}) ? $users{$1} : $users{$1}=getpwuid($1)); $volume = $2; $quotabloat{$user} = $volume if (!exists $quotabloat{$user}); next; } if (/tree quota exceeded on volume (.*)/){ $treebloat{$1}++ if (! exists $treebloat{$1}); next; } push (@unknown,$_); } close(<LOG>); print "\n==== Quota exceeded ====\n"; print wrap("","",join (" ",sort keys %quotabloat)),"\n"; print "\n==== Tree quota exceeded ====\n"; print wrap("","",join (" ",keys %treebloat)),"\n"; print "\n==== Unknown messages ====\n"; print @unknown; ----------------- Hope this is helpful. Respectfully, David N. Blank-Edelman Director of Technology College of Computer Science Northeastern University

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RE: Looks like InfoLibria got the last laugh at the cache bakeoff .
by Shaw, Kevin 07 Apr '99

07 Apr '99

Cor I have filers from the F330 to the F760. In the four years that I have been using the filers, I've NEVER had a production system go down! The filers are by far the best piece of hardware I have (I have a number of Sun Enterprise Systems) and I'm NOT taking anything away from Sun. Hey James! :) Right now id buy almost anything over NotUp. We've had more crashes with our new F720 the last 2 weeks than our previous Sun had in 2 years, and thats including fsck. Cor

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