Subject: Re: Advice on Netatalk Config
From: Marc Miller (itlm019@mailbox.ucdavis.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 14 2000 - 20:02:52 EST
Ummm... delete and recreate the alias? Just a thought. Maybe what should
be the alias to media2 is actually an alias to media1. You can "Get
Info" from the File menu to find out for sure what it's pointing to or
click on it and press Apple-I. (I'm a PC guy, but I know my way around a
Mac pretty well now)
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Russell Kerrison wrote:
>
> I am looking to re-configure our network drives, and as an increasing number
> of client Macs are running OS9, want to arrange them to minimise problems
> with aliases.
>
> Firstly, rather than hassling people here incessantly, is there something on
> the Net I can refer to that explains the netatalk alias issue?
>
> The particular alias problem we're encountering is on a newish box running
> an RPM 1.4b2+asun2.1.4pre39 5mdk. Off /home there are 2 drives mounted on
> /home/media1 and /home/media2 - these are 2 shared netatalk volumes.
>
> The issue is, if media1 is already mounted, trying to open the media2 alias
> opens media1.
>
> Is there something I can do to makes these behave normally?
>
> Thanks,
> Russell.
>
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