[WinMac] NT w/SFM strange shut down behavior
Cesar Morales(cesar[at]UCSD.Edu)
Wed, 21 Apr 1999 05:37:55 -0500
Hi all,
The following is perplexing and a bit frightening:
Lately, when I command our NT server to shut down, it doesn't.
I have tried both the shutdown and restart buttons and after I do this, it
starts its usual NT shutdown dance (shuts down all applications, fiddles a
bit with the task bar, plays a beep, and leaves the desktop for the screen
where the splash screen for Windows NT appears, then it shows the "shut
down in progress" message which reads "Please wait while the system writes
unsaved data to the disk" everything looks normal so far...
..but then it stays like that at least a good 45 minutes; that's as much as
I can take before manually pushing the restart button on the PC (and by the
way, Control-Alt-Delete, even if done a few times, prior to manual
shutdown, is useless)
However, while the PC clients loose connectivity (supposedly, all services
have been shutdown by now right?), I can still see the server in our
Appletalk zone from my Mac. Not only that, but I can actually access every
mac volume in there, and wread and write to it etc.
Does anyone know what may be causing this?
Furthermore, I have noticed odd things happening lately, for example if I
access the NT Help system and select a topic, it shows me the contents of a
completely unrelated topic. It's weird, I just fear that it will die on me
pretty soon.
Please help...
Cesar
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