Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Re:
From: Anthony Johnston (anthonyj@silverchair.com)
Date: Fri Mar 13 1998 - 13:18:40 EST
Wow thanks,
after two weeks of needless waiting and run around from various MS
support people, I still didn't get any kind of answer to what the problem
might be. And please, somebody add it to the FAQ, because I know I'm not
the only one who wants to know.
Anthony
a sun said something resembling:
>
>this should probably be a FAQ. could people who maintain such things
>add it in? here's a synopsis of the skipping icon problem, the
>solution, and why the solution doesn't always work:
>
> 1) in os8, apple is now using more bits of the finder info
> field than it did before. netatalk can cleverly do file
> typing based upon dot suffixes. to do that, they generate
> the appropriate creator/type fields and send them
> back. unpatched versions of netatalk-1.4b2 assumed that
> sticking 0's in this field would be an all right
> thing.
>
> result: os8 macs see the incorrect finder info field and
> try to update it. as this was a "virtual" field
> anyway, it never got updated, resulting in constant
> attempts to update.
>
> 2) the solution involves allowing os8 to actually go in and
> update the finder info while still generating our own
> creator/type fields.
>
> 3) why doesn't the solution always work? this may be due to a
> couple reasons:
> a) you're not actually allowed to modify the
> appropriate .AppleDouble file. make sure the
> .AppleDouble files are modifiable at least long
> enough to fix the finder info.
>
> b) the appropriate .AppleDouble file somehow got
> scrambled in a way that isn't easily fixed. your
> best bet here is to remove the offending
> files. hopefully, they shouldn't have any resource
> fields as they represent auto-generated info.
>
>-a
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