+----- On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:20:21 CDT, "Mohler, Jeff" writes: | One of our customers is doing some evaluations of netapp. | While evaluating the new server he was using Windows(NT)2000. | He has defined some directories and files on the server from the NT. | While/after playing around (setting) with the security features on the | just defined files and directories the netapp server will hang. | Only reboot of the sever will revive it. | The customer claims he can recreate the problem at will. | Has anyone encountered such problems. | Do any of you have any words of wisdom? | The customer dos not like to accept the fact that win2000 is not yet | formally supported. he claims that win2000 talks CIFS, and even if MS is | doing wrong things at most the filer should complain but for sure not | hang... | --- | | Geesh..talk about a loose-loose situation. | | I would not expect NetApp to spend more than a _few_ man hours on this | problem, while they continue to hammer out solid released for solid software | platforms. | | While I agree it should not hang, theres no way to tell what NT2000 feature | is not working properly. |
I think that you missed the point Jeff, the W2K machine can halt and catch fire for all I care but the filer should at worst have degraded performance, regardless of the provocation. That's why we pay more for filers than for an Alpha PC.
/Michael