-=> Quoting Dave Emory to Peter Knapper <=-

 DE> On Sunday October 24 1999, Peter Knapper wrote to Roy J. Tellason:
 
 PK>   1. The Linux shares were not in a state to accept a login at the
 PK> time the OS/2 box tried to connect. This is one annoyance I have with
 PK> OS/2 networking, in that for an unattended server site it is not
 PK> possible to configure a RELIABLE automatic retry option to automate
 PK> connections via the WPS. To resolve this I always issue manual NET USE
 PK> commands via STARTUP.CMD to connect to a resource at system startup
 PK> and it loops (after a short delay) until those connections are
 PK> established successfully.

 DE> Could you share the salient parts of your command file to do this
 DE> looping?  I have a heterogeneous network here with W98, Linux, and
 DE> OS/2 boxes.  If I have a power outage, I end up having to monitor the
 DE> whole restart to make sure the shares all work.

Netware Lite had a utility for this sort of thing. IPXSYNCH. What you
did was put something like "IPXSYNCH server1 foobar" in the batch file
on server2 and "IPXSYNCH server1 foobar" in one on server2.

Execution would pause until each machine had received the "foobar"
message from the other. This allowed things to synch up. You could even
use several IPXSYNCH lines for stuff that had to come up in stages. 

Surely something similar could be written using TCP/IP?



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