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Dealing with crashed AppleShare servers

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From: Roy Smith
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 18:37
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	We're running AppleShare 2.0.1 on an SE/30 over LocalTalk with a
variety of clients running 6.0.[567].  Many of the clients have the "mount
automatically on reboot" boxes checked in the chooser for the server's
disks.  The problem is that if the server has crashed (which seems to
happen periodically), the clients just hang when they are rebooted.  If you
disconnect the client from the network while it reboots, it comes up fine.

	Is there anyway to keep the clients from hanging in the face of a
crashed server other than isolating them from the network?  The stuff on
the server is not essential, but it's used commonly enough that it's
convenient to auto-mount.  Is there some way to specify "try to automount
on reboot, but timeout after 15 seconds" or some such?
--
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy
"Arcane?  Did you say arcane?  It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"
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Subject: Dealing with crashed AppleShare servers
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