Re: GEN:Winnebago/Spectrum4 problems?

[Melissa Davis <mbdavis@tenet.edu>]

Gayle Miller wrote:
> But among all that our Tech. person installed the upgrade for Spectrum 4.  We > 
>are having trouble with rolling over patron #'s, updating those expiration > 
>dates, loading MARC record info,improper call 3's, etc.  Is anyone else out > 
>there experiencing these problems with the upgrade?  Got any helpful hints on > 
>self-fix methods before our Tech. guy reappears to crash and reload? We've done > 
>what the manual says and calling Winnebago is time consuming.

I just installed ver 4 and service pack 4.1 on our Elementary's Novell 5
LAN and experienced a rather strange phenomenon that might help you.

Check to see whether your Tech guy mapped a drive straight to your
Spectrum area on the server. If he did, in Windows Explorer (NOT
Internet Explorer!) you will see something like:  H:>Spectrum on
Fileservernamehere

Apparently Winnebago's 'Moving to Spectrum' program really doesn't like
running from a mapped drive. (Or in our case it wouldn't run at all.)
When I unmapped the drive (again in Windows Explorer; Tools ; Map
Network Drive) it ran like a charm ...  _very_ strange.


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