Re: Mac/NT Server Interactions

Steve Hyman(steveh[at]practech.com)
Wed, 1 Jul 1998 07:29:10 -0400

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Tim Smith wrote:
>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.

[stuff deleted]
>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.

In similar situations I've heard about, but not encountered personally,
caching _could_ be be the culprit. I don't know enough about NT
administration to suggest how to get around that, however, or whether it
is IIS or NT itself that might be causing the problem. I have a nasty
suspicion that, using the current settings, you might need to restart
IIS each time you want to move files-if caching is indeed the
difficulty.
But since you didn't have problems until recently, caching doesn't seem
right. Usually when this sort of thing happens in UNIX, permissions have
gotten changed accidentally in my directory when someone was trying to
make changes either to a single file or to a higher-up directory. Get
your admin to check on that. It certainly sounds more like permissions
than caching.
Have you checked with your server admin about whether NT or IIS have
been updated/patched recently, or any settings have been changed? Some
of Microsoft's NT Service Packs introduce more problems than they solve.
More radically, I might suggest that, since you have a DEC Alpha, your
Web server might run better by replacing NT and IIS entirely with Linux
and Apache, with SAMBA allowing you to access directories (or you could
use normal FTP). That combination will give you much more power and
stability than NT. Your server admin might not know much (or care to)
about UNIX/Linux, though, so another route might be to use the Apache
server for NT when it's available (I'm not sure if it is yet), instead
of IIS.

--
Derek K. Miller, Writer, Editor & Web Guy
Multiactive Software Inc.
<dkmiller@pobox.com>
<dkm@multiactive.com>



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