Subject: Re: Mac Aliases changing
From: Dean Batten (dbatten@batcon.com)
Date: Mon Jun 23 1997 - 19:32:49 EDT
The user is most likely correct. There was a lengthy discussion a month or
so ago on the linux-atalk mailing list about this.
If I recall correctly, there are three ways you can refer to a file--path,
folder id + filename, and file id. While the path reference is consistent
between mounts of a Netatalk volume, the folder and file id's are not. A
Finder alias, unfortunately, uses one of the reference methods for which
Netatalk is inconsistent: each mount of the volume, the alias will point to
something different.
>Folks,
>
>Netatalk 1.4b2 on Solaris 2.5.1, no afs.
>
>I have more than one Mac user who claims to have made an alias to a
>folder on the Sun box that, overnight, 'changed' and now points to a
>different directory on the Sun box. Anyone else seen this? They've
>done it several times, so I don't think they are the ones messing up.
>
>Peace,
>--
> Matt McLean Systems Administrator
> School of Information & Library Studies Tifosi
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