Mac clienst can't see all shares on Win 2000 server

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I have a Win 2000 server sp3, with apple talk running. There are 15
Mac clients that access 10 shares on this server. When I reboot, at
first the clients can only see one or two shares (I get no error
mesages), and it could take upto 40 minutes to see all the shares.
Some times I need to reboot again because one share just refuses to
show up.

Are there better ways to connect Mac to Windows Server, I was told to
try PC Maclan - is it any good?

Any help is appreciated.

Kot
 
I have a Win 2000 server sp3, with apple talk running. There are 15
Mac clients that access 10 shares on this server. When I reboot, at
first the clients can only see one or two shares (I get no error
mesages), and it could take upto 40 minutes to see all the shares.
Some times I need to reboot again because one share just refuses to
show up.

Are there better ways to connect Mac to Windows Server, I was told to
try PC Maclan - is it any good?
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Hi Kot!

After your login screen appears the File Services for Macintosh will
continue to load for a few minutes later. If you're seeing a lot of disk
activity for several minutes then your server may be recreating the Mac
volume index due to corruption.

Try deleting the Mac volumes and then recreating them. Deleting Mac
volumes is the equivalent of deleting a Windows share. You're not
deleting files or folders but rather removing the sharepoint.

Using the Activity Monitor and Event Viewer may shed some insight into
what your server is doing while you're waiting for the volumes to appear.

Hope this helps! bill
 
William,

The server starts up withouth any issues and I do not have excessive
disk activity. I have desktop access in about a minute after I log on
to the server. From any PC I can see and access all shares, however
from any MAC I would see one share and it can take upto 30 minutes for
all shares to be visible - sometimes I need to reboot the server again
because one share just refuses to show up for MACs.

Again any help or directions what I should do is appreciated.

Kot
 
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