Mac/NT Server Interactions

Steve Hyman(steveh[at]practech.com)
Tue, 30 Jun 1998 16:29:29 -0400

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I am brand-new to the list-saw it mentioned on the Tidbits page this
morning and joined immediately. And I have a problem that I sure hope
someone has an answer to.
Briefly, then, I work on a lot of web pages on my Mac desktop machine,
but the server that these pages reside on is a DEC Alpha running Windows
NT and the Microsoft Information Server. I do NOT administer the server,
but the guy who does has set it up so that I can log onto the server
directories and have them appear on my desktop. He has set it up so that
there is one series of directories for the actual server files and
another, on the same volume of the Alpha, which I use as a working area,
a so-called "Mirror."
Until just recently (about a week ago) everything seemed to be going
pretty well. I would do my work on the Mirror, then just drag the
finished files over to the Server directory to update our web pages. But
for the last several days, this isn't working. When I copy files now,
all *appears* to be well: the little thermometer showing progress in
copying behaves normally, but the files on the Server are simply not
updated. Doing a "Save as..." directly to the Server results in an error
message having to do with not enough rights.
If I move NEW file from the Mirror to the server, it works fine. The
directory on the server is instantly updated. It seems, then, that the
server won't let me REPLACE existing files. So, I tried an experiment. I
tried to delete one of the existing files on the Server and then copy
the replacement from the Mirror to the Server. The Server would not let
me delete the file; again said I didn't have enough rights, even though
the system administrator has given me full rights. I can also move files
FROM the Server to the Mirror with no problem-just can't do it the other
way around, the useful way.
I should add one more fact: colleagues using Windows 95 desktop machines
to access the server have the same problem that I do, so it's not purely
a Mac problem, but would seem to be something endemic to the IIS
software. The system administrator, running NT on his desktop machine,
CAN copy files successfully.
The system administrator and another guy on our staff who runs other
servers seem to think the problem may have something to do with caching,
i.e., that the Server won't let me replace files it has in cache, but
they have not yet been able to figure out how to test this hypothesis.
Is this a reasonable guess, or could it be something else entirely?
I don't have nearly enough technical expertise myself to begin to deal
with all of this firsthand, but if anyone on this list has any idea
about what's going on and what to do about it, I'd very much appreciate
it.
Thanks very much!
Tim Smith

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