Monday, May 02, 2005
Ghost disk
I need to blog this for the record. I know nobody cares but I'll forget otherwise probably.
If you have a ghost disk that uses the old MS LANMAN net.exe DOS client, it may have problems appending to files on a Windows 2003 server. IE:
> echo hi > new.fil
works, and
> echo hello >> new.fil
Returns access denied. After a few hours poking at this, I decided it was a problem with the redirector. There's a net command that shows you running services on the DOS client. I checked it and it indicated the BASIC redirector was running.
After that, I ran:
> net stop basic
> net start full
Relogged in, reconnected to the drives... Everything works. I don't think this is documented anywhere.
If you have a ghost disk that uses the old MS LANMAN net.exe DOS client, it may have problems appending to files on a Windows 2003 server. IE:
> echo hi > new.fil
works, and
> echo hello >> new.fil
Returns access denied. After a few hours poking at this, I decided it was a problem with the redirector. There's a net command that shows you running services on the DOS client. I checked it and it indicated the BASIC redirector was running.
After that, I ran:
> net stop basic
> net start full
Relogged in, reconnected to the drives... Everything works. I don't think this is documented anywhere.
# posted by James Tatum @ 6:27 PM 
