I had to babysit the Public Z: drive server (192.168.1.50) through a filesystem check to get it back online tonight. The failures strongly imply that the drives are likely on their last legs.
If you have data on this system, you need to copy it off post haste. This system is unmaintained and has NO BACKUP. If one of the drives fails permanently, that system is gone.
@buzmeg It looks like this drive has gone. I’m unable to connect to the drive from either of the laser computers. Do we just not have a shared drive now?
As far as I know, the board has decided that there will be no shared drive.
There are several good reasons for this. The big one is that the shared drive has no security on it, and it is really easy to overwrite somebody else’s files and settings unintentionally. It also is very easy to get a malware/virus infection and spread it to everybody’s drives.
And, truthfully, given how cheap flash drives are, there’s really not a lot of good reason for a public shared drive and quite a few downsides.
If you desperately need some data off of it, I can try to babysit it again. However, everyone was warned about this, and I make no guarantees.
I suppose its my fault for not checking the forum as often, but I went in to see Red last night and saw that the Z: drive is completely gone. Its a bit frustrating losing those designs, is there any chance that a temporary local back up can be made to give Users another chance to pull off data?
-I will definitely be using a personal flash drive moving forward
I sat it through a fsck. I also copied your directory (it only had 9 files) onto the Desktop of atxhs-lounge-2 (that’s the Linux machine that used to have vcarve on it) in case the machine goes back down before you get to it.