Subject: Re: Serving to Mac OSX Beta
From: Joe Rhodes (joe_b_rhodes@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 15 2000 - 18:05:23 EST
I've had similar trouble. I could log into my machine and view the files in
one share but the other share appeared to be empty. As it turns out, that
particular problem was that the "empty" directory has no write permissions
and Mac OS X wants to create a file called .DS_Store (It's on my HFS
desktop now in OS 9) I could not copy files from the other share even
though they did show up.
However, from a command line, I could copy files. My guess it's something
to do with that little "mystery file" but I don't know what.
Just my $.02
-Joe Rhodes
>From: Segfault <segfault@mac.com>
>To: Matthew Geier <matthew@arts.usyd.edu.au>
>CC: <netatalk-admins@umich.edu>
>Subject: Re: Serving to Mac OSX Beta
>Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 03:15:35 -0800
>
>Hi,
>
>I've also played around with using Netatalk (netatalk-asun-2.1.3nb4 on
>NetBSD i386) to serve Mac OS X.
>
>I don't think Mac OS X likes it at all. I've heard issues like yours,
>where upon login, you can see all the files, but they are zero length.
>But I don't recall any conclusive answers to these problems. :-(
>
>It seems to me, that this is a problem with directory and how they are
>read on MOSX Finder from Netatalk. There are some directories in which
>all files are zero length, and other directories whose files are non-zero
>length.
>
>Nonetheless, I cannot seem to open files directly from them (zero-length
>or not). I can copy them to my directories the finder and then open them
>without problem. However, attempts to copy them directly through the
>terminal window, seems crash the system to a grinding halt (or perhaps
>the GUI)
>
>I wonder whether this is a problem with caching. The exact same
>directories are readable/unreadable each time the share is mounted, hence
>MOSX may have cached, which directories are readable and which are not--
>even renaming the directory, the renamed directory is still readable/
>unreadable as before.
>
>Any one else has any clues?
>
>Later,
>
>Lucas.
>
>Am 2000.11.15 sagte Matthew Geier:
>
> >
> > Any one else playing with this. I seem to have some problems. While I
> >can connect and login, see all the files and icons, all the files are 0k
> >in lenght.
> > The server is working fine for 'classic' clients, so what ever is wrong
> >is somthing in the way the OSX AFP client interacts with NetATalk.
> > The OSX machine also connects to our ASIP 6.2 server and CAN see files
> >properly. (I would expect that Apple tested that one... :-)
> >
> >--
> >Matthew Geier matthew@arts.usyd.edu.au
> >Arts IT Unit +61 2 9351 4713
> >Sydney University
>
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