Aloha WIndows 7 BOH and RFS

[erock123]

We just opened a new store, and this is the first store we have done from scratch by ourselves.

I am having issues with refresh taking a long time. actually it doesn't work at all unless we restart bot ctlsrv and rfs on the BOH multiple times. There has to be something wrong with a setup here.
I went through coorsman FAQ and everything (and more) is set up properly.

the weird bit we have is we are on a domian here, but all terminals log in under the same login, and that login has admin access on all the terminals and the BOH. The services are running under that login as well. As an experiement we have on terminal which takes a very long time to come up normally. A mapped the bootdrv on the BOH on this terminal, and it came right up.

I suspect this is an RFS issue, should I turn it off? Any other ideas?

thanks!

 

[coorsman]

To turn on network discovery, file and printer sharing, and public folder sharing in Windows 7
1.Open Advanced sharing settings by clicking the Start button , and then clicking Control Panel. In the search box, type network, click Network and Sharing Center, and then, in the left pane, click Change advanced sharing settings.

2.Click the chevron to expand the Home or Work network profile.

3.Select the options to turn on network discovery and file sharing.

4.Under Public folder sharing, do one of the following:

•To share your Public folders so that people on other computers on the network can open files in them but can't create or change files, click Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can open files.

•To share your Public folders so that people on other computers on the network can open files in them and also create or change files, click Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can open, change, and create files.

Click Save changes. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

To turn on network discovery, file sharing, public folder sharing, and printer sharing in Windows Vista
1.Open Network and Sharing Center in Control Panel.

2.Under Sharing and Discovery, click the chevron next to File sharing to expand the section, click Turn on file sharing, and then click Apply. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

3.Click the chevron next to Public folder sharing to expand the section, and then do one of the following:

•To share the Public folder so that people on other computers on the network can open files in it but can't create or change files, click Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can open files, and then click Apply. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation. This is the default setting.

•To share the Public folder so that people on other computers on the network can open files in it and also create or change files, click Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can open, change, and create files, and then click Apply. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation


Cheers,
Coorsman

 

[erock123]

That might have helped.

though i wrestled with turning RFS this morning. started at 9, and finally got everything up at 11:30.

I added public with full access to the bootdrv share, then terminals started to come up easier. The POS is on it's own subnet with nothing able to talk to that (expect the office printer) so I have no problems with public having access to it.

since it is lunch time, i will see later if the refreshes will occur much quicker, and without the need to have us intervene in order to make it go through.

Man what I nightmare, and I really think i hate RFS, anytime we have a problem it seems that turning RFS off solves it.

 

[coorsman]

How many terms

Cheers,
Coorsman

 

[erock123]

6 terms, and 3 IP printers

 

[erock123]

RFS is back on. terminals just wouldn't stay out without it.

would be nice to figure out why refresh isn't working.

 

[coorsman]

You don't need to run RFS with terminals. The IP printers don't use a CAL


Cheers,
Coorsman

 

[erock123]

our reseller thinks it's might be the lines as I am seeing isstationonnetwork (or something like that) taking over 120 seconds. I am just handing this over to them as I am out of ideas.

 

[erock123]

The problem, after much digging appears to be Kerberos going over udp on the VPN, and not everything getting to the terminals. I am going to make some changes to the terminals on monday to see if that fixes everything. Seems like an all or nothing change, as the one terminal i tried the fix on didn't want to play nice with the other terminals. Seems to make sense if they are not authenticating properly to the DCs though.

 

[erock123]

Yup, That was the problem, I just applied the fix this morning. I forced Kerberos to communicate over tcp as opposed to udp, then killed RFS there. terminals came right up, and and refresh takes less than a minute.

in retrospect now with this authentication really being a problem, some of the issues I was having seem to make a bit of sense now.