Subject: [netatalk-admins] Trash problems
From: nobroin@esoc.esa.de
Date: Thu Sep 24 1998 - 05:21:23 EDT
Memphisto <szoli@cs.elte.hu> just wrote about some problems with the trash
under Netatalk and he asked if the trash can behaviour was documented
anywhere. I know I've seen similar problems discussed in the past, but
there seems to not have been any consensus as to the problem (or its
solution).
I've seen exactly the same problems as Memphisto described, except with a
Linux server. As he described, all clients logged in as the same user and
sometimes a file thrown in the trash on Mac A appears in the trash of other
Macs. Also, entire folders have been know to vanish from the shared disks
and end up in a trash can. Thankfully, this doesn't happen very often,
though of course this makes it harder to track down. So, what's happening
here ? Is it a Netatalk or Mac problem i.e. does Netatalk (or any Appletalk
server, for that matter) do any special handling of trash or is it that
when a client connects to a shared folder, it looks for a folder called
Network Trash Folder, and then looks in there for folders called Trash Can
#n and then creates for itself a folder called Trash Can #m, where m = (max
n) + 1. Does the confusion arise when >1 clients manage to both believe
they should use Trash Can #X ?
Does anyone know what's going on here :-( ?
Kindest regards,
Niall O Broin
UNIX Network Administrator Ground Systems Engineering
Department
European Space Operations Centre nobroin@esoc.esa.de
Darmstadt, Germany Ph./Fax +49 6151 90 3619/2179
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