Posts Tagged ‘share’

can’t get here from there

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

I was trying to send a largish promotional image to our marketing department yesterday. It was too big for e-mail, so I put it on the department share, assuming that marketing could read it. Nope. Moved it to a company FTP site. User has no access to ftp. In the end, I had to send it on a CD, even though I’m pretty sure it originated somewhere inside the company.

I also had to point an (internal) reviewer to an engineering report on our servers. Again, it’s on a share - you know, those things that people are supposed to be able to, y’know, read. No dice. I think the reviewer ended up requesting hardcopy from the original consultant, even though I know the file’s on a server in the very same building as the reviewer. Aagh!

If one company that spends a truckload on IT can’t get communications right, there is no hope for us.

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Fixing bad shares on the NSLU2

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Much as I like my NSLU2, it has a serious problem when it loses power; its share information often goes kablooey. There’s a not very elegant way of fixing this.

Say, f’rinstance, you had a share called Files on Disk 2. Sometimes you’ll find that this has gone, or migrated to the wrong disk, and there’s invariably a share called Files~1, usually on Disk 1. To fix this:

  • Delete the Files~1 share.
  • If you have a Files share and it’s inaccessible through the normal methods, delete that.
  • Recreate the Files share on Disk 2. Do not change the location, unless you’d put it somewhere strange to start off with.

Your share should be back. I find that it sometimes changes the user permissions, so you may have to fiddle with ownership and group membership. But this seems to work for me.

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