stories of war between boy and machine
Our file share seems to be running well now, except for one bothersome thing; The generation of hidden system files. I noticed this after one of our team members accessed our Samba share from a system running Mac OS, where I could see where he’d looked around by the trail of hidden ._.DS_Store files he had left […]
Since writing this post, these subsequent posts may help with some issues: How to remove .DS_Store and other system-created files in Samba Issues with PBIS Active Directory and Samba Introduction One of the many servers we didn’t lose was the team’s storage server, called Warehouse. In fact, it was the only remaining survivor of what we […]
Looks like the storage array is dead. After a bunch of messing around a couple of days ago, it really is apparent that we have lost the FFD2 enclosure. With it, we lose a few server, but we can also gain a load of storage disks. Until we manage come up with a new storage […]
BIG problem – our ESX cluster has fallen over. Kind of. Not entirely – but enough to be a complete pain. The symptom – our student webserver called ‘studentnet’ (which also hosts lots of student storage) stopped working. Actually, for a while I suspected something may happen, because we were observing very high memory usage […]