Mutliple server icons

For some reason when I logon to my home network, I get between 5 to 10 
server icons for the same server in the Resource Browser-- this is in a 
box with peer and eCs 1.2r which is networked to a v4.52 MCP3 box. The 
eCs box shows up as 10 server icons for the 4.52 box in the Browser 
window, but the ecs box shows up as only one server in the v4.52 box. A 
win box keeps showing up (in the eCs box) even though it's been long 
removed from the network. I can't delete any of these icons. Refreshing 
the Browser's view produces about 1-3 minutes of the clock face cursor, 
and nothing happens except some of the icons get "whited".

Accessing back and forth works OK, but what gives? Did I cobble a 
setting somewhere?

TIA,
Pete

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Pete wrote:

> For some reason when I logon to my home network, I get between 5 to 10
> server icons for the same server in the Resource Browser-- this is in a
> box with peer and eCs 1.2r which is networked to a v4.52 MCP3 box. The
> eCs box shows up as 10 server icons for the 4.52 box in the Browser
> window, but the ecs box shows up as only one server in the v4.52 box. A
> win box keeps showing up (in the eCs box) even though it's been long
> removed from the network. I can't delete any of these icons. Refreshing
> the Browser's view produces about 1-3 minutes of the clock face cursor,
> and nothing happens except some of the icons get "whited".
> 
> Accessing back and forth works OK, but what gives? Did I cobble a
> setting somewhere?

Pete, try this:  run checkini or inimaint to clean up the .ini files, then
delete ALL the icons from the network folder (or even the whole folder)
followed by one more run of the ini cleanup tool.  Reboot and see if that
cleaned things up.  A lot of the problem is ini file garbage.

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On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:05:44 UTC, Will Honea <whonea@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Pete wrote:
> 
> > For some reason when I logon to my home network, I get between 5 to
10
> > server icons for the same server in the Resource Browser-- this is in
a
> > box with peer and eCs 1.2r which is networked to a v4.52 MCP3 box.
The
> > eCs box shows up as 10 server icons for the 4.52 box in the Browser
> > window, but the ecs box shows up as only one server in the v4.52 box.
A
> > win box keeps showing up (in the eCs box) even though it's been long
> > removed from the network. I can't delete any of these icons.
Refreshing
> > the Browser's view produces about 1-3 minutes of the clock face
cursor,
> > and nothing happens except some of the icons get "whited".
> > 
> > Accessing back and forth works OK, but what gives? Did I cobble a
> > setting somewhere?
> 
> Pete, try this:  run checkini or inimaint to clean up the .ini files, then
> delete ALL the icons from the network folder (or even the whole folder)
> followed by one more run of the ini cleanup tool.  Reboot and see if that
> cleaned things up.  A lot of the problem is ini file garbage.

That cleaned things up. It turns out a key trick is to eliminate the 
trash can and deregister its classes too. I had successfully cleaned the
ini files (Unimaint, cleanini, checkini /c, and even xfix) and then 
deleted excess server icons on the v4.52 box on numerous occasions in 
the past. The difference with this eCs box is that I started using the 
trash can. It turns out that for some reason the icons couldn't be 
deleted, er rather, couldn't be moved to the trash can. Temporarily 
getting rid of it allowed deleting all of the excess ones. Reinstalling 
it hasn't resulted in a re-proliferation, at least not yet (fingers 
crossed). I also ran across an extra, unnecessary network service in 
ibmlan.ini and commented it out. Now there is no more sea of duplicated 
icons and the network actually seems to run faster.

Many thanks,
Pete



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