[X4U] Direct ethernet beachball woes

[nk]

that worked!

and I took my sweet time, too...gave first machine plenty of time, then 
the other, then mounted one, and several minutes later, mounted the 
other.

this kind of waiting is no problem to me, as I keep the connection open 
for weeks at a time doing distributed 3d rendering...so a few extra 
minutes spent now is like money in da bank.

thank you for the suggestion.

nk



On Dec 9, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Philip J Robar wrote:

> This is what I'd recommend also. Turn both machines off. Then turn one 
> on and wait till it's finished starting, then turn the other on. That 
> way there's no potential for a race condition and conflicting network 
> addresses being chosen. Unless you're an experienced sys admin, and 
> even then, problems like this can be very difficult and time consuming 
> to track down. If restarting the both machines fixes the problem then 
> don't worry about what the problem was and be happy.
>
> Phil