[100] in Kakapo Windows Team
Re: status update on slow startup times and afs connections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Dowdy)
Fri Sep 19 14:47:38 2003
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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:47:31 -0400
To: Richard Edelson <redelson@mit.edu>, Philip R Thompson <phils@mit.edu>,
"Thomas L. Thornton" <tomt@mit.edu>, contact-container-admins@mit.edu
From: Stephen Dowdy <sdowdy@MIT.EDU>
Cc: kakapo@mit.edu, ferrara@mit.edu
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We can not find the netman service so we can turn this off with group
policy.... were is it located?
At 09:38 PM 9/18/2003 -0400, Richard Edelson wrote:
>Steve,
>
>Netman is the Network Connections control panel interface. It can still be
>started manually later if you need to reconfigure an adapter. The same is
>true for webdav if anyone is using this. This has been tested on a number
>of machines over the past two weeks with no ill effects. There are a few
>errors in the log generated by netman that can be ignored.
>
>Consider this fix as a temporary one until there is a working Open AFS
>installer. Because the long startup delays were such an inconvenience to
>users I felt compelled to mention it as available for those who need an
>immediate fix. There are no plans to push this out domain wide, consider
>this just informational.
>
>Richard
>
>At 06:11 PM 9/18/2003 -0400, Stephen Dowdy wrote:
>>do we happen to know what things might happen if we disable these?
>>
>>
>>At 05:39 PM 9/18/2003 -0400, Richard Edelson wrote:
>>
>>>Actually disabling both the "Network Connections" (netman) and WebClient
>>>(webdav) services works in all cases with zero startup delays. This can
>>>be set on a container via group policy.
>>>
>>>Richard
