HELP! AutoCad 2002 Land Desktop Hangs After Server Change

Has anyone run into this? I have 20 Windows XP workstations running
AutoDesk 2003 Land Desktop. The data is on network drives. We are
running into problems since moving data to a new server. I have moved
Data drives to a new server but the path letters remain the same. For
example, the path for the F drive was \\SERVER1\CADD. The new path for
F is \\SERVER2\CADD. All the data was moved. I stopped the shares on
\\SERVER1 but left the server up and running.

Everthing was fine for a couple of days until I unplugged \\SERVER1
from the network. Then the users' AutoDesk application began to hang
for about 2 minutes when opening and browsing to open new files. I
found that when I plug SERVER1 back into the network, the application
works fine. But the workstations and autocad are not accessing the old
server or any files on it. I've check the security logs and the
connections to the server. No users are hitting it. But AutoCad does
not work well unless is somehow sees that SERVER1 is still around.
We've deleted anything in the registry that points to SERVER1 but no
luck. And we have check all AutoCad settings for mention of SERVER1
but again no luck.

Any ideas would be appreciated since I have to shut this server down
permanently in a few days.
Help!

Thanks,

Greg

 

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schrieb:

| Any ideas would be appreciated since I have to shut this server down
| permanently in a few days.
| Help!

Look at the reference links.
they seem to be absolute, not relative.

Change them as soon as you can.
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We checked everything. Links go by drive letter not server name. One
thing, however. I reused a server name. Meaning SERVER2 had been in
use before. I am reusing the same name. I can browse to the share
drives via Windows Explorer and other applications but AutoCAD just
hangs for a two or more minutes. We tested a clean install of AutoCad
and got the same result. Does AutoCad have problems with reusing
server names or SID history?
Thanks,

Greg

 

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Greg H schrieb:
| We checked everything. Links go by drive letter not server name.

So it should be no issue to the problem you have.

We had a similiar problem.
Autocad tells me again and agein the file I want from the history isn't
there. So I have to open it manually, clicking all through the way.
Then it finds it. It doesn't make sense either.

Any other app does it without problems.


| One
| thing, however. I reused a server name. Meaning SERVER2 had been in
| use before. I am reusing the same name. I can browse to the share
| drives via Windows Explorer and other applications but AutoCAD just
| hangs for a two or more minutes. We tested a clean install of AutoCad
| and got the same result. Does AutoCad have problems with reusing
| server names or SID history?

Maybe Autodesk remembers file internal the drive letter combined with
the absolute path of it, e.g. I: == server2\\data\jhz\hgt\
So if you reuse anything, autocad searches for nonexistant files and
folders.

Or the files have some kind of runtime errors.
We lost several authorisation codes that way.
Neither the old, nor the new computer wanted the license...
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