Engineering Systems Administrator Group

Minutes August 12, 1999

Prepared by Ray White

Present:

Regrets:

Discussion:

Bruce: How is GUIBOOT conversions going, will you be done by September? After a long discussion Mike was concerned that he might have the same problems the Eric Praetzel was having and hadn't yet switched his lab over to GUIBOOT. Ray formulated an email response to address the issues brought up by Eric, most of the problems could be solved (except the DPMS problem which needs more effort to solve). The September deadline was expressed by some as not the real deadline but it was pointed out that the more people we have testing GUIBOOT the more confident we will be with it's performance. Scott had already converted one lab over to GUIBOOT and had not heard of problems reported a second lab was to be converted the following week.

It was reported that MS Windows 95 does not report running out of disk space (over quota) message correctly. Various utilities such WinPopUP were discussed to proactively warn users that they were close to running out of disk space. Available disk space on any CIFS network drive is reported incorrectly by MS Windows 95 to complicate the problem.

Bruce: How is network testing going? Science reports that more testing needs to be done. Civil appears to be without problems in their public labs. Chemical Engineering is untested.

Bruce: Plans for Net App still appear to be 1st Year starting in September. A self move facility available mid to late September for everyone else. An automated tool for System Administrators was also discussed and might be available in the Fall term (there are concerns about reliability of Windows 95 accessing Network drives).

Shares with Access Control Lists (ACL's) are currently not being used but might be very important for various reasons. Details must be looked into before these shares can be allowed, if at all.

Next meeting:

Thursday, September 2, 1999, 1:30pm, CPH-2375.