Re: Details on Mac/NT Server Interactions

Steve Hyman(steveh[at]practech.com)
Thu, 2 Jul 1998 16:50:46 -0400

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> Here's the skinny on Services For Macintosh (SFM) and IIS - yes, there
> is a confirmed problem, and it has to do with the interaction between
> the Appletalk 2.1 protocol and IIS' caching mechanism. A Microsoft NT
> SFM test engineer duplicated my experiences, which are similar to
> yours. No, there is no code fix at this time.
>
> My setup is similar to yours: 2 NT volumes (both on same hardware)
> mounted to my desktop, one is development webspace, the other is live
> webspace. Both have same directory structure. Copying over an existing
> a file from dev to live works most of the time, unless IIS is serving
> the live file at the time of the copy.
>
> Here's the twist-I'll get a message that "File could not be written
> because of a disk error", and the original file in the destination
> "live" partition will disappear! But not really... while the file is
> invisible to Macs, other NT users can still see the file along with a
> .tmp version of the same file, but NO ONE (including an administrator)
> can delete the file at that point, unless two things happen-either
> the Mac doing the copying gets restarted, or the IIS server is stopped
> and restarted. Guess which one happens...
>
> Best solution-delete the file from the destination directory first,
> then copy over the source file to the destination NT partition being
> served by NT and IIS. Or write .asp code which is unaffected by IIS
> caching, as opposed to .html code which is affected. Or FTP your files
> from one NT partition to the other, which avoids SFM entirely. It's a
> hassle...
>
> David
> ads016@email.mot.com
>
> -----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
>
> <snip>
>
> >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.
>
> >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.
>
> >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,
>
> Tim Scoff, MCSE
> casper@nb.net
> <http://www.nb.net/~casper/>
>

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