Subject: Re: File Copying Hangs
From: Matthew Wilson (mwilson@real.com)
Date: Fri Dec 22 2000 - 15:23:54 EST
Do a clean install of MacOS on the box, you can always step back to the
old system with system picker.
if it works after that, it's a foobarred OS.
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Basil Hussain wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Hmm, well, here's something to further confuse this situation.
>
> I thought it might be something to do with the share being read-only. So, I
> set up a share on a different directory with a few hundered files in it. I
> tried copying them from the 9150 Mac and encountered a different sort of
> greivance.
>
> About half-way through (although not always exactly) the server drops the
> connection! At first, I thought this may be a problem to do with what has
> been mentioned before on this list about Macs dropping connections - namely
> the TCP/IP stack unloading itself in the middle of everything. So, I went
> and made sure 'Load only when needed' was turned off and tried again, but
> only to have it dump me again half-way through.
>
> So, it gets stranger: I can't begin copying at all from a read-only network
> share and I get disconnected when I copy from a different share. And yet
> there are no problems with any other Mac.
>
> Could it be the Mac? Reputedly (from the previous user, in another dept.)
> this Mac is solid as a rock. I'm beginning to suspect otherwise...
>
> So, Mac or Netatalk to blame? Can anyone shed any light?
>
> Regards,
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Basil Hussain (basil.hussain@specialreserve.net)
>
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