RE: [WinMac] Your Macs can cross the VPN... RE: Mission critical ASIP 6 server

John Hanks(jbh[at]bioserver.vsb.usu.edu)
Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:18:25 -0700

>That and the difficulties with people FTP'ing Norton Disk Doubler
archives
>to the NT box which is our FTP site, and then the macs try to open
them but
>since NT doesn't have file type and creator mappings for Disk
Doubler
>archives means that I get called in to unstuff files. If FTP
server were a
>mac this problem would never occur.

>Plus you have to stuff whatever you put on the NT box or it thinks
>Illustrator files are Adobe Illustrator '88 files, and so on, and
so on.

Since NT stores creator mappings in the registry it makes sense that we
could add new ones to the list. This would be a nice thing to know how to
do, could someone who has done this post some instructions and/or pointers
to instructions?

Thanks,

jbh

John Hanks, Computer Specialist (whatever that means)
jbh@biology.usu.edu
USU Dept. of Biology
Logan, UT

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