Re: [WinMac] Drop box on NT Server
Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:32:10 -0500
Yup: If the file system is not explicitly set up to handle dual fork files
(HFS, HFS+, NTFS) then these sort of problems will rear their ugly head.
At 06:38 PM 1/26/00 -0500, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
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>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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