Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Trash problems
From: Magnus Stenman ([email protected])
Date: Thu Sep 24 1998 - 05:47:30 EDT
[email protected] wrote:
>
> Memphisto <[email protected]> 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).
This is actually the only thing that�s keeping me from switching from
mac servers to netatalk, the mac users get nervous over this behaviour,
and don�t trust the Linux box....
The Permissions/Trash Can/DID problem is perhaps only a small problem,
but probably keeps many from switching to netatalk..
>
> 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 :-( ?
>
/magnus
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