Subject: Re: netatalk in production environments....(RFC)
From: Luke McNeilage (lmn@d2p.com.au)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 04:58:56 EDT
>From: Ron Chmara <ron@Opus1.COM>
>To: Harry Zink/Netatalk List <netatalk@fizbin.com>
>Subject: Re: netatalk in production environments....(RFC)
>Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 6:27 PM
>
>> > Seriously, though, certain things have _always_
>> > been considered "not best practice" in one environment I admin for, and
using
>> > aliases (which can point to the wrong volume, server, or job) is one of
>> > them.
>> They don't point to the wrong locations when you use an ASIP server, or even
>> standard (old) AppleShare.
>
> They most certainly do. They are put on the local desktop and given
> names like "stuff". Of course, when "stuff" fails to point to the user's
> intended location, it means that the alias is "broken". :-)
>
> More to the point, a pre-press house I used to work in once blew $500 of
> bad film, matchprint, *and* missed a press date, because an alias was
> pointing to a folder that supposedly held the right data. It did not,
> it pointed to an *older* version. This almost cost the company a $120K
> client.... hence, their standing rule to _only_ access data by a direct
> path
Absof*&^$%ing-lutly.
Everybody learn from this example! I see it over and over again in so called
"production" environments.
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Luke McNeilage
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Email: lmn@d2p.com.au
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