benkei@cs.utexas.edu (William Kent Richards) (10/30/90)
At work we have about 10 mac II's connected with appletalk and Tops, and until now it has worked just peachy, but suddenly two of the Macs cannot be accessed from others. More specifically, they can be "opened" and files can be copied from them, but when one tries to copy files _to_ them or "mount" them, a short pause occurs, then a "cannot connect, keep trying or cancel?" message pops up. If you chose "keep trying", it happens over again, and if you choose "cancel", a "disk damaged, cannot be opened" message comes back from the disk being accessed. From this point, the disk being accessed thinks that the other disk is attached, and the disk doing the accessing does not acknowledge the connection. Note that when I say attached or connected, I am not talking about the ever-present hardware connection, I am talking about the user- invoked temporary Tops software link. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. -------- Kent Richards benkei@cs.utexas.edu
wiechman@athos.rutgers.edu (NightMeower) (11/04/90)
Assuming that you have kept up to date with TOPS (TOPS currently is at 3.0), your biggest problem may be your network design. Networks that are built up over time and without any real plan often get into trouble. AppleTalk has limit in length. Make certain that you do not have any extra cuts in the lines. If these two Macs are at the ends of a long daisy chain you may need to install terminating resistors at the end. Kevin -- =========================================================================== Kevin S. Wiechmann arpa: wiechman@rutgers.rutgers.edu This is only a test... for the next sixty seconds...