Re: Mac/NT Server Interactions

Steve Hyman(steveh[at]practech.com)
Wed, 1 Jul 1998 07:28:34 -0400

-----Original Message-----
From: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu
[mailto:winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Tim Scoff
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 1998 6:35 AM
To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
Subject: Re: Mac/NT Server Interactions

Are the permissions and rights still set up properly? The fact that the
administrator can copy the files from his NT computer doesn't mean
anything because he's probably logging in with full control of
everything. Can you log in from his computer and do the copy?
>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

Tim Scoff, MCSE
casper@nb.net
<http://www.nb.net/~casper/>

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