[WinMac] Re: NT SFM and locked files from locked folders

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:33:51 -0500

        Dear Blaine:

        Here's a case where the Mac platform can indeed be a good choice, IF your
"jukebox" either is a "tower," or uses LUN's to identify disks. AppleShare
Server 4.2.2 on a good clone with FWB's CD/ROM Toolkit works quite nicely
in this configuration if you use MacOS 7.6.1...

        Another alternative would be to try NT's Service Pack 4, since there were
quite a few bug-fixes for Services for Macintosh (SFM). Just be SURE to:

        1) Update your Emergency Repair Disk (ERD). As a shortcut, I use:
                Start -> Run -> RDISK /s
                [Don't be a N.E.R.D.: No Emergency Repair Disk!]
        2) Create the "Uninstall" directory while updating. You can use "Last
Known Good Configuration" and then uninstall it with the Add/Remove
Programs applet.

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 11:08 AM 1/12/99 -0600, Blaine wrote:
>
>
>I haven't seen a similar question posted before, and was wondering if this
>behavior has been seen by others.
>
>We have a CD jukebox (NSM Satellite with SmartStorage SmartCD server
>software for NT) that we recently installed on our Windows NT server 4.0
>with service patch 3 running NT Services for Macintosh. We use this
>jukebox to house archived graphics jobs, which often need to be pulled back
>to our Mac clients for revision.
>
>SmartCD starts up its own file share called SmartCD when it runs. When the
>shared service is mounted from a Mac and the files on a CD are viewed, the
>icons indicate that the folders (and therefore the files in them) are
>locked. This is fine, since CD-ROM is a read-only medium and I wouldn't
>expect to be able to modify the files. But, when we copy a project folder
>from CD to the Mac's hard drive, the folder and all of the enclosed files
>remain locked. If the files are to be modified, they must be unlocked
>first (select each file, do Get Info, uncheck Locked box, close info
>window). I suppose there are utilities to streamline this, but regardless,
>it just adds steps to the process.
>
>This behavior apparently extends to any locked folder on an NT share. We
>also have a couple of file shares on the NT server. Whenever a folder
>appears locked from changes due to NT file permissions, copying files from
>that folder to the Mac result in locked files on the Mac's hard drive.
>This behavior doesn't happen with an AppleShare server.
>
>Another niggler -- I can't navigate "backwards" in a file structure by
>holding down the command key on a Mac while clicking on the NT share's
>folder window name. This works fine on a local Mac or Apple server, but
>apparently not with NT.
>
>Are these known behaviors of SFM, and are there patches? I've had so many
>little annoyances and "can't get there from here"'s while setting up the
>jukebox on NT that I'll probably end up moving the jukebox to an Apple
>server. I'd appreciate any suggestions for jukebox software for Mac
>servers.
>
>Blaine Rittmer
>Graphic Services
>Rockwell Collins, Inc.
>Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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