Re: [WinMac] B&W Server Icons
Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:57:20 -0500
You (most likely) don't need to reboot the server: Just stop & restart
File Server for Macintosh.
Cheers!
Dan
At 09:14 PM 1/19/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Curtis Wilcox <cwcx@mail.rochester.edu>
>
>>Every Mac Volume has an ICON file at it's root. The creation date will be
>>whenever the volume was created (or rebuilt?) but the Last Modified date
>>seems to always be 10/14/1996. It has zero K in the data fork but I assume
>>it contains the volume's icon in the resource fork. I don't have a Mac
>>handy to test this. You could try creating a new volume and if it has a
>>color icon, copy its ICON file to the volumes experiencing the problem.
>
>Christopher Giles <filenes@cybercom.net>
>
>> On the server, I deleted the hidden ICON file at the root of the offending
>> Mac volume, then rebooted, and the correct icon came back.
>
>That makes sense. I logged onto the network using my Powerbook (OS8.6) and
noticed that someone pasted some custom icons onto the volumes and I
suspect that this confused the NT. I deleted the custom icons and the black
and white Windows icon returned (on my Mac). I think that a restart of the
NT will restore the colored icons.
>
>That restart is in the future, it's certainly not worth it for cosmetic
reasons.
>
>Thanks for the responses.
>
>jw
>
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