Re: [WinMac] NT not visible from Mac

Owen Watson(owen[at]rsnz.govt.nz)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:04:53 +1300

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>Did you have a clean reboot, or did it go down dirty?

A clean reboot, but I shut it down on the Start menu rather than going thru
the UPS, which can cause problems (or so I'm told).

>When we have an ugly shutdown, we often lose our Mac volumes, and it can take
>quite a while for NT to rebuild them (our volumes are huge). Sometimes, all
>you have to do is wait. However, if there's no disk activity, then NT isn't
>doing the rebuild. In this case, I've used File Manager to delete and recreate
>the volumes.

ie you have to back up and restore?

>Check your Event Viewer (Start->Programs->Administrative Tools->Event Viewer)
>and see if there are any messages about your Mac Volumes, i.e. "Could not
>locate desktop database, setting defaults." If you see this, but your volumes
>aren't coming up after a while, I'd rebuild them.

Nothing about Mac volumes etc. How do you do a rebuild?

>Now, if your server isn't appearing in the Mac Chooser at all, then that's a
>different problem. We had something like that happen today, where the server's
>NIC locked up and required a hardware reset. Ugh.

This is what is happening. I'm installing the sp4 patch tonight, so we'll
see whether that does the trick (MS technote Q191285 suggests this).

Thanks for what you've suggested so far.

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