Haste, and why it's bad...

Okay, so I come back from the holidays all refreshed and ready to finish replacing the NSS. All the hardware is in place, I have the WANSyncHA software from XOSoft, I'm set. Except I cannot get WANSync to replicate to...

January 5, 2005

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Okay, so I come back from the holidays all refreshed and ready to finish replacing the NSS. All the hardware is in place, I have the WANSyncHA software from XOSoft, I'm set.

Except I cannot get WANSync to replicate to the Snap. I can get it to replicate to a local drive, but not out there. I paw through the documentation - not actually reading it, but looking for my error, or these symptoms in the troubleshooting. While I'm doing that, XOSoft emails to ask if I need anything more.

I did what you'd expect, I asked them about it. I was sure this was going to cost me time I don't have... And it turns out that you have to be smarter than the disks that store your data.

WANSynch, because it runs all the time to keep files synchronized, requires a service. That service is set up on install to use the "localsystem" account, like all services are by default. Like most shops, LocalService has no ADS rights at all...

So I changed the login to an account with rights to both the NAS boxes, and boom! It's off and running.

Now, to go write that workshop...

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