Subject: Re: asun2.1.4pre39-5mdk
From: Stephen Welker (stephen.welker@nemostar.com.au)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2000 - 05:21:06 EDT
--On Thursday, 3 August 2000 10:25 AM +0100 Jürgen Weltzer
<weltzer@werbeagentur-weltzer.de> wrote:
> But the aliases don't work on my system (Suse 6.3) Is there something to
> change in the config-files? Cause Harry Zink and Reed Loefgren told, that
> the alias are working...
Could you tell us what MacOS version you are using?
Depending on the MacOS version, aliases are broken when linked to servers.
This is what Adrian Sun wrote on 18 January, 2000...
> if somebody could enter this as a faq, that would be great. there
> seems to be some confusion on why aliases don't work. here's the
> answer:
> 1) macos pre-8.6 used a path composed of fileid/directory id's
> to lookup aliases.
> 2) in afpd, file id's are fixed, but directory id's are
> variable.
>
> as a result, macos pre-8.6 will just fail with aliases that refer to
> files that are more than one directory level deep. with macos 8.6 or
> higher, the alias manager will attempt to resolve those by
> pathname. as long as a directory doesn't get assigned the same
> directory id as one in the alias, things should be all right. for
> files, this algorithm should be good enough as file id's are not
> likely to be duplicated on a system. for directory aliases, however,
> this can fail because directory ids can get re-assigned between
> connections.
-- Stephen WelkerNetBSD - because Unix isn't just #include <linux.h>, i386, ILP32, ELF, ...!
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