This is login-vs.-NFS in view mode; [Up]
Date: Sun 01-Nov-1989 18:06:52 From: Unknown Subject: login vs. NFS We have a small network of NeXT machines. User accounts are spread across these machines, as each has its own 330MB hard disk. We have global accounts set up using NetInfo and NFS. Everything works fine when all the machines are up. When one of the machines is down, (rebooting, testing, ...), and a user, whose home directory is on the dead machine, tries to login on a live machine, the login process proceeds (since the NetInfo server is up and running) until the login window is cleared from the screen. At this point, login stops, presumably trying to access the user home directory, which is unavailable. Now the previously live machine is no longer usable by anyone. The big question: is there some way to break out of this state? Getting a login window back would be sufficient (i.e. no need to let the unfortunate user in at all). Thanks for any help... Conrad Huang conrad@cgl.ucsf.edu PS On our 4.3tahoe Vaxen, when a user logs in either on a terminal or via the network, he can break the connection using either ^C or ^Z. Keyboard events apparently go no place on the NeXT while in this state. >From: nichols@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Dennis Nichols, MACC)
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