barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) (03/02/91)
We are a large site (1000 machines on ethernet, 15 AT zones, 400 TOPS users) and have had reports of TOPS volumes disappearing and when the user reboots, the volumes that TOPS previously remembered to auto-mount don't automount. Sitka has not heard of this problem before. Has anyone else seen this? -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett
jensen@mscf.upenn.edu (Christopher Jensen) (03/02/91)
In article <BARNETT.91Mar1161237@grymoire.crd.ge.com> barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes: > (We) had reports of TOPS volumes disappearing and when the > user reboots, the volumes that TOPS previously remembered to > auto-mount don't automount. > Sitka has not heard of this problem before. Has anyone else seen this? Yes, I have seen a similar problem. One possible cause of the error is multiple active copies of the Tops desk accessory. The Tops installer program places the Tops DA directly into your system file. Some users may be running Suitcase or Juggler. They may have copied the Tops DA from the system file into a Font/DA Mover file. Check all of your DA files and verify that only one copy of the Tops DA is active. Certain combinations of inits also produce this problem. Try disabling all inits except "TOPS" and "SoftTalk". Beware that the TOPS inits complain if you rename them. Christopher Jensen University of Pennsylvania Medical Information Systems Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) (03/05/91)
In article <38567@netnews.upenn.edu> jensen@mscf.upenn.edu (Christopher Jensen) writes: > Yes, I have seen a similar problem. One possible cause of the error is > multiple active copies of the Tops desk accessory. This isn't the cause in our case. The users I have checked don't have Suitcase or Juggler. A lot of Microsoft software, SAM, TOPS, and MacTCP. I would appreciate any other clues. (I know SAM and MS Mail have problems. I don't *think* the TOPS problem is related). -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett