Re: Mac clienst can't see all shares on Win 2000 server

From: William Smith (mecklists_at_REMOVETHIS.mn.rr.com)
Date: 05/29/04

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    In article <aff43354.0405271219.1c753bfa@posting.google.com>,
     kotbegimot@hotmail.com (kot) wrote:

    > I have a Win 2000 server sp3, with apple talk running. There are 15
    > Mac clients that access 10 shares on this server. When I reboot, at
    > first the clients can only see one or two shares (I get no error
    > mesages), and it could take upto 40 minutes to see all the shares.
    > Some times I need to reboot again because one share just refuses to
    > show up.
    >
    > Are there better ways to connect Mac to Windows Server, I was told to
    > try PC Maclan - is it any good?

    Hi Kot!

    After your login screen appears the File Services for Macintosh will
    continue to load for a few minutes later. If you're seeing a lot of disk
    activity for several minutes then your server may be recreating the Mac
    volume index due to corruption.

    Try deleting the Mac volumes and then recreating them. Deleting Mac
    volumes is the equivalent of deleting a Windows share. You're not
    deleting files or folders but rather removing the sharepoint.

    Using the Activity Monitor and Event Viewer may shed some insight into
    what your server is doing while you're waiting for the volumes to appear.

    Hope this helps! bill 

    -- 
William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP)
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