Re: Desktop Icon


Subject: Re: Desktop Icon
From: Matthew Wilson (mwilson@real.com)
Date: Fri Dec 22 2000 - 14:09:31 EST


the icons are in hex form in {sourcetree}/etc/afpd/icon.h

there is then an option in afpd.conf:

  -icon Use the platform-specific icon.

you can also say -noicon to let the client decide

of course, I've never tried this, since I like the one that shows up now
:)

Matthew

On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Stew Benedict wrote:

> That's what I figured, that it's driven by netatalk. I get the Black and
> White globe on the Linux servers, and on the Sun, a Sun logo. I saw a
> BSD'ish looking color logo on one of the Howto pages.
>
> Thanks,
> Stew Benedict
>
> At 06:06 PM 12/22/00 +0000, Basil Hussain wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >> What drives the desktop icon for the share? I just finished setting up
> >> Netatalk on Sun Solaris, and I notice a different icon than my Linux
> >> server. Can these be replaced with something more colorful?
> >
> >Well, all I can say is that through 3 different versions of Netatalk I've
> >had installed, I've experienced 3 different types of icon - but only with
> >MacOS greater than 8.5 on the client-side (lesser versions give all network
> >shares the same icon).
> >
> >With some version of 1.4asun (forget which, exactly) I got black and white
> >globe icons, with the initial 1.4.99 version I got the normal icon depicting
> >a networked hard drive and with the version dated 8th November I get the
> >same icon, but with a little globe in the corner.
> >
> >I have no idea what dictates what icon is used, but all I can say is that it
> >seems to be directly related to Netatalk, rather than MacOS on the client
> >side.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >------------------------------------------------
> >Basil Hussain (basil.hussain@specialreserve.net)
> >
> >
> >
>



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