I made some configuration changes to the WebSphere server that is hosting our eBusiness application. I changed the WebContainer thread count to something more reasonable (Min 7) than what it was (Min 300), and I also set the initial java heap size to be 250 MB instead of the 32 it was at, since the server is hanging around the 100 MB to 300 MB range. We'll see if those changes have any effect.
FreeNAS, CIFS, and user login problems
I have been in the process of converting from the dead-end Windows Home Server product to a FreeNAS server for my home NAS. I was trying to replicate the same sort of set up that WHS had for user directories. In WHS, there was a share called "Users" and under that share there were various user directories corresponding to each user account. I thought it would be pretty simple to replicate that same behavior to allow users to simply attach to \\nas-server-name\Users in Windows, and then navigate to their own user folder. What follows is how I achieved this, as well as a problem I fought with for a while that prevented certain users from connecting via CIFS. First, I started off the process by installing FreeNAS to a USB stick, added a few disks in the server, plugged in the USB stick and booted up. I performed basic config for the networking, and admin account passwords, and turned on the CIFS service. Next, I created a some user accounts fo...