Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Trash problems
From: Magnus Stenman (stone@hkust.se)
Date: Thu Sep 24 1998 - 05:47:30 EDT
nobroin@esoc.esa.de wrote:
>
> 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).
This is actually the only thing thatīs keeping me from switching from
mac servers to netatalk, the mac users get nervous over this behaviour,
and donīt 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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