Subject: Serious Problems
From: Michael Paesold (paesold@sein.at)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2000 - 12:23:39 EDT
Hi!
Since I have read the recent discussion about netatalk in production
environments I was confident that using netatalk would be a good choice,
also in the long run.
Now I have run into serious troubles here at my site that point to serious
bugs in the netatalk code:
1) It appears that sometimes documents stored on the server (especially
saved on the server) get corrupted in some way: with some files copied back
to the mac, norton disk doctor (5.0) reports major problems, that can only
be corrected by replacing the files with original ones. (But where to take
originals from ?? :( )
2) There are often problems with files, that can be opened with an app (e.g.
quark xpress), can be saved, can be copied or moved on the server, but when
you try to copy them to the macintosh, the operation will be canceled with
error number -39.
3) The most serious incident was that one:
One user copied some files to a different location, than trashed a folder.
Afterwards, he was unable to empty the trash, so he wanted to move the
folder out of the trash again -> not possible. Then he tried to move some
other files to the trash when suddenly the hole content of the parent folder
disappeared. The trash can was empty now.
The hole files were deleted. (Later, I couldn't find them on the server
either)
The only thing I found was that two macs were connected with the same
user/passwd at the same time, nothing else.
The permission of all these files on the server volume are 660 owned by one
user and group users. The server runs SuSE Linux 6.4/Kernel 2.2.14. netatalk
version is netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3 (SuSE default installation)
Perhaps someone has encountered similar problems. I will very happy with any
help.
Mike
-- Michael Paesold - mailto:paesold@sein.at Vienna, Austria, Europe
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