Conference azur::mcc

5476.0. "Map-files and DFS in a multi DECmcc-station environment?" by STKHLM::BERGGREN (Nils Berggren EIS/Project dpmt, Sweden DTN 876-8287) Fri Aug 13 1993 03:23

Hi, I'm working on a project where the customer has 4 DECmcc stations,
(VS 4000-90, VMS) in three cities.  They're using DNS.

All mcc-disks on all stations are cross-mounted, using DFS, on all stations.
The logical name MCC_MAPS is defined as a list of directories, where the 
local map-directory is first and then the other nodes map-directories after.

Everything works OK.  When opening a domain, we always get the associated 
map, nomatter where the map is located.

The problem is if I, on node A, open a domain with the corresponding map 
residing on node B, edit the map and save it.  The new map-file is written
to node A's map-directory, which means that when a user on node B opens the
same domain he will get the old map-file and eventually the 'map-file and 
domain mismatch'-warning.

Is there a way have the edited map-file be written to the same directory
it came from?  This is VMS-related question (using search-lists)
but I think it would be great if MCC could get the full pathname (with full
logical name-translation) for the map-file when reading it in, and use that
path-name when writing it.

Any ideas or comments?

	/Nils

PS
 Cross-posted in EMF-REQ conference