Re: [WinMac] Drop box on NT Server

Romeyn Prescott(prescor[at]potsdam.edu)
Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:38:53 -0500

At 5:16 PM -0500 1/26/00, Curtis Wilcox wrote:
>At 06:27 PM 01/25/2000 -0500, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
>
>>This is going to sound really backwards and stupid, and I can't explain
>>WHY or HOW it works, but it does.
>>
>>We offer a file service to Faculty and Students called "Class
>>Submissions" that is used as a homework dropoff place. Faculty create
>>folders for their classes and students put their work there. After a
>>not-quite-completely disastrous experimental semester in which we tried
>>a Linux/Samba/netatalk+asun solution, we're back to NT with SFM.
>>
>
>I'd like to hear what your problems were with this.
>

Oh, goodness... Where to begin?

It all centered around Macs. The Samba thing worked just fine, but
setting permissions on the Mac stuff and getting the dropboxes to
work was a nightmare. We ended up setting all folders designated as
dropboxes 773 for students and 775 for faculty. The problem was the
duality of Mac files. The invisible .AppleDouble folders and the
files in them. We wrote a script that recursively parsed a directory
(prompt) and made every .AppleDouble folder and it's contents 777 and
set it up to run once an hour just so files wouldn't get messed up
when Faculty tried to read them.

Even then, users could not SAVE directly into a dropbox. They would
have to save to floppy, another share, or the local hard drive and
then drag the document onto the dropbox in order to get it there.
Dragging folders of documents onto a dropbox was impossible.

I learned more about Linux file permissions in the first two weeks of
last semester than I ever thought I would in my entire life!

...ROMeyn

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