ted@nieland.DAYTON.OH.US (Ted Nieland) (02/22/90)
In article <20621602MR@MSU> 21602MR@MSU.BITNET (Mark Rosenberg) writes: > The PROBLEM is whenever a user resizes a floppy window or chooses an apple menu > item or makes another floppy window active the cursor turns into a watch and > the appleshare "arrows" appear for 5-10 seconds. Why would "local" activity > effect the fileserver ? Does anybody have any clues ? Most users are forced > to unmount the server to get any work done... We have had the same problem. And it is caused by the WDEF virus. Talked to someone within Apple and they gave us a WONDERFUL suggestion. It seems that an Apple Fileserver does need the DESKTOP file. They suggest that we use RESEDT (or MacTools or whatever) to remove it off the server. We did. The server is fine and no more problems. We are still trying to clean out the WDEF off everything anyway, but at least the network isn't slowing everything down and people don't have to keep dismounting the server, since it can no longer be infected. Note: The DESKTOP file will be recreated on the server if you ever boot it normally and use FINDER or MULTIFINDER. Only the AppleShare software can do without the DESKTOP file, since it has special files to do the same thing. Sidenote: A nice way to destroy the WDEF file is to just rebuild the DESKTOP on every volume and floppy by holding down the option and command keys when booting and inserting floppies. When the DESKTOP is rebuilt, it actually just deletes the old version and creates a new version. -- M. Edward (Ted) Nieland Ted@NIELAND.DAYTON.OH.US (aka uunet!dayvb!nieland!ted)