Re: ATTN: Bill Smith

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From: William M. Smith (mecklists_at_REMOVETHIS.mn.rr.com)
Date: 02/11/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:06:01 -0600

On 2/9/04 10:39 AM, in article d42501c3ef2b$3cdc2b40$a401280a@phx.gbl,
"Chris" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Bill,
> There is a bunch of us posting with session timeout
> errors, where the macs loss their shares intermittently
> and the server event logs report:
> _______________________
> Source: MACSRV
> Event ID: 12061
>
> Session from user "<username>" was timed out and
> disconnected by the server.
> _______________________
>
> Collin Barrett posted the same in November and referred
> to a solution posted by Tony Sheppard in October. Tony's
> post is no longer on the list. Another post claimed that
> the fix was not a fix and that it is a server software bug.
>
> Can you explain to us what is going on between our Macs
> and servers and how to fix this problem?

Hi Chris!

I did a search on Google for '"Macs drop connection" and "Tony"' and found
the following:

===============================================================
>This tend to be when a volume is not unmounted properly, IIRC.
>
>For example ... if a volume is unmounted (dragged to trash) it is fine, but
>if the machine crashes, or the machine is shutdown and fails to unmount
>volumes / drives, or if it loses it's network connection, it takes some time
>for SFM to respond. I vaguell recollect it being explained to me as SFM
>doesn't want to let the session go in case it comes back after a short blip.
>
>Since we have made sure the logout functions on our Macs definitely unmount
>the volumes this has now dropped to a handful a week.
>
>There is information about this in the Apple Knowledge Base somewhere. If I
>can dig out the details i will post them here.
>
>Tony Sheppard
>
>.
I successfully tried Tony Sheppard's fix. I had a user
dismount, restart, then copy several files (she was
disconnecting with 1 MB files). Thank you for the solution.

Collin Barrett
===============================================================

Apparently, if you have a Mac that disconnects improperly due to a crash or
some other reason, you should restart your Mac, reconnect to the server and
then drag the server volume to the Trash to dismount properly. This should
tell the server to stop "holding on" to the old disconnected session.

Don't know if this is your solution, but hope this helps! bill 

-- 
William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP)
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