Subject: Re: Bug with AppleVolumes.default vs user .AppleVolumes config files?
From: Marc J. Miller (itlm019@mailbox.ucdavis.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 14:28:35 EST
What is casefold:tolower in your .AppleVolumes file supposed to represent?
At 11:40 AM 12/5/00 +0000, Basil Hussain wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I think I've found a bug in the handling of volume config files.
>
>I've just upgraded one of my servers from an older version of Netatalk (some
>1.4 asun version, forget which exactly) to the latest (8th Nov) 1.4.99 RPM
>version.
>
>For the old version, each user was set up with a .AppleVolumes config file
>in their home directory. It was basically the same file for each user,
>defining a volume for their home directory and a shared web root directory.
>This is what it contained:
>
>~ "User Home Directory"
>/home/httpd/html "Web Root" casefold:tolower
>
>So, I upgraded to the new version and decided to tidy things up a bit and
>put these volume definitions in the /etc/atalk/AppleVolumes.default config
>file. I put exactly the same directives as above in there.
>
>Then I went to connect to the server in the Chooser. I logged in okay, but
>got presented with a volume choice of only "casefold=tolower" (which was in
>reality my home directory if I connected to it). This was not what I was
>expecting!
>
>Obviously not a config error, I wondered what it could be until I remembered
>I still had the .AppleVolumes file in my home directory. Removing it resumed
>normal operation. There were no errors in the system logs.
>
>Regards,
>
>------------------------------------------------
>Basil Hussain (basil.hussain@specialreserve.net)
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