[WinMac] Re: 2 irritating problems with NT shared drives on Mac

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Thu, 6 May 1999 13:14:59 -0500

At 11:14 AM 5/6/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>There's been 2 long-standing problems we have with Mac clients
>connecting to Shared Drives on NT (Services for Mac volumes):
>
>1) While working on web sites, saving HTML files in BBedit (and other
>editors) frequently gives an Error -61 file cannot be saved because
>it's in use. We're pretty sure it's because the NT web server has
>recently sent the page and is still 'grabbing on' to the file. This
>error does not occur when we view the files from the server via
>file:// in the browser, so that's what makes us pretty sure it's the
>web server's fault (however we must view ASP files via http so we run
>into this problem a lot). Our only workaround is to save as a new
>file name and then delete the old one and rename the new one....
>quite a pain.

        It's called file locking... And this is platform independent.

>2) Most of the shared drives windows are set to icon view and setting
>them to list view is not saved when we next go to the drive. This can
>be quite a pain to continually change everything to list view. We
>have discovered that when the system admin logs in from our macs, his
>view settings are saved. Also, if a user creates a folder then they
>have control over the view settings, but no one else does.
>Is this just a limitation of NT sharing? It seems ridiculous to have
>to track down the creator of a folder just to save the view. These
>are shared drives so if you can write to the folder you should be
>able to save the view.

        This is part of NT's NTFS security: You can change ownership
at the server.

>I have looked for answers to these but haven't found anything. I'd
>like to know at least if these are problems that are bothering other
>people.
>
>Thanks a lot,
>George
>
>George Orthwein 215.364.4590
>Art Director mailto:george@refinery.com
>Image Refinery Productions http://www.refinery.com

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