Hi everyone,
We have been having some issues lately with our mapped drives which has meant that even though Tessitura is up and functioning, anyone who tries to log in can’t access it due to their T:\ being ‘down’.
Is there an alternate way that Tessitura can be set up on the local stations so they don’t require the mapped drives to be operational in order to use Tess? Of course having the mapped drives just work (always) is ideal….but when they don’t, it would be great if this didn't make Tess unavailable to our users.
The reports library is the only thing I can think of as being a potential problem to having everything run locally. Is there a way around this?
Could you have LOCAL_LIBRARY_LIST in T_DEFAULTS reference the local machine somehow? Then have the local library sync via a group policy with the T:\ on a schedule? What about all the other network paths in T_DEFAULTS, they would still work, wouldn't they?
In the long run, it looks like Terminal Services is the way to go (from reading other forum threads) but at this stage, running locally is where we are at. Is this possible?
Thanks as always for any advice,
Tash
Hi Tash
how is the T: drive getting mapped? Is it via windows logon script or do you manually map the drive? If it is this, you can check to see if the users are closing their logon script by adding:
time /t > %temp%\logon.log date /t >> %temp%\logon.log ipconfig /all >> %temp%\logon.log to the top of their logon script and time /t >> %temp%\logon.log date /t >> %temp%\logon.log dir t:\ >> %temp%\logon.log
to the bottom. If you check the %temp%\logon.log file on their machine, if there aren't two time and date stamps in there, the user has closed their logon script and you can ignore the rest of this post.
Depending on how you start Tessitura, you could add to that process to check for the existence of a file on your T: drive.
The logic behind the code below is
If you use a batch file to start tessitura, you could add similar to this (probably not exactly this):
@cls if not exist t:\Installation\ini\LIVE.ini (net use t: /delete net use t: \\servername\foldername )ping 127.0.0.1 c:\program files\impresario\tessitura.exe t:\installation\ini\live.ini
You can, on your own head be it, have a local T: drive mapped by using the subst command:
subst T: C:\LocalTDriveFolder
I don't suggest using this method - or use it as a last resort
Hope this helps pointing you in the right direction for a fix.
Thanks
Wayne
Hi Wayne,
I'll have to check on all this and get back to you (this is a little outside my area).
Thanks for your advice,