Friday, April 30, 2004
Trusty Mount
I was impressed with myself yesterday. My new client had a Novell server emergency and I actually remember how to get around in Novell, as if it hadn’t been over four years since last time, quickly identified it as a problem with SYS unmounting itself, and remembered or intuited the use of the mount command. Go me.
What I expected to be a heinous experience was pretty mild. The worst part was the degree of panic and discussion about it that ensued, not the actual problem.
While I was there, I also managed to fix the Norton Corporate problem. Had to kill and reinstall the LiveUpdate program, and once I ran LiveUpdate on the “server,” the workstations all picked up the new definitions. Except the same one that had stopped doing forced scans inexplicably.
Fundamental interconnectedness of all things came into play here. The same reason that computer had the worst problem with Novell being down, and remained unable to print when it came back, was a problem with using the wrong login. That and the automatic LiveUpdate setting was inexplicably turned off.
It worked out nicely and maybe for a few days they can manage without me. In a copuple weeks, the network will be replaced and there should be no more problems from old servers. I swear the machines know they are being replaced, and are making their displeasure known.