CIFS Timeout

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TristanDK

Hi,

I am trying to setup an EMC Nas clustering solution with CIFS
presentation.

I have windows XP client.

When I am doing a failover between two nodes of the cluster I
sometimes get a popup asking for a 'retry / abort' in Word, Excel or
Access Application (Office 2003).

Is there parameters I can change to avoid the timeout popup during the
failover procedure (about 50 seconds).

In fact, some PC are "robot" and I can't imagine restarting them each
time a failover or failback occurs.

Thanks for your advice.

Tristan
 
Hello Tristan,

I know of no good solution to your issue. Every cluster that I have
worked with, save HP's PolyServe, acts this way. The file connection
is broken and the application will have to close and re-open it.

This problem is not as big as it may at first seem. A fail-back should
be done after hours in a controlled fashion, so this will not affect
people. A fail-over should be relatively rare (maybe once a year?) and
thus the total impact will be very low.

Regards,

J Wolfgang Goerlich
 
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