Re: Mac/NT Server Interactions

Steve Hyman(steveh[at]practech.com)
Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:09:30 -0400

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Tim,

Try having the sysadmin take ownership of that directory then reapply
the permissions recursively. The fact that the sysadmin can do the copy
when ordinary users can't almost certainly implies a permissions problem
of some sort; if it was a caching issue, I would think everyone would be
affected by it. Just out of curiosity, have you tried logging in as you
on the sysadmin's machine?
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu
> [mailto:winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Tim Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 4:11 PM
> To: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu
> Subject: Mac/NT Server Interactions
>
> 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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