Engineering Systems Administrator Group

Minutes June 3, 1999

Prepared by Bruce Campbell

Present:

• Chair: Erick Engelke, Engineering Computing
• Bruce Campbell, Engineering Computing
• Martin MacLeod, Engineering Computing
• Ray White, IST
• Bernie Roehl, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Kevin Krauel, Systems Design
• Dennis Herman, Chemical Engineering
• Steve Hitchman, Mechanical Engineering
• Mike Herz, Civil Engineering

Regrets:

• Beth Jewkes, Engineering Computing

Discussion:

CFI Networking. June 17 meeting scheduled. Request to have departmental data ready for that meeting. Discussed form.

Bernie: Detects increase in Waterloo Polaris machine crashes. Likely due to Aspen or other VXD recently added for legacy DOS applications. EC is removing the offending VXDs.

Bruce: Determined that many 100 Megabit networked machines are performing poorly. Traced to full/half/auto mismatches.

SMB Mounts from home. Must set WINS server or use LMHOSTS file if you are off uwnet.

App file mirrors are 18GB.

Next meeting:

Thursday, July 8, 1999, 1:30pm, CPH-2375.