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  • August 9, 2005 at 3:27 pm #362741
    b_caceres
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    After working properly for months, our server sharepoints have started to exhibit some strange behavior. The servers are running 10.3.8 and the clients are running 10.3.7 through 10.3.9.

    On one server, the root level of the server is a sharepoint, along with many subordinate folders. On another, the hard disk is divided into two folders, each of them a sharepoint.

    Users who use Connect to Server menu command see the normal array of sharepoints and the volumes act normally.

    But the volumes are no longer capable of being dragged to the Dock for future use as bookmarks. The Dock “sees” them as having identical AFP addresses and disregards the new icon.

    The same kind of problem occurs when these volumes are dragged to the users’ start-up items list. When installed they appear as /Volumes/main/ and /Volumes/main/sub01, but after the user reboots the sub01 turns into /Volumes/main!

    Any ideas?

    August 10, 2005 at 2:02 pm #362754
    b_caceres
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    Are you certain about nested AFP shares in Panther server? I found the following on page 162 of Schoun Regan’s “Mac OS X Server Panther”:

    [QUOTE] Mac OS X Server can host many share points simultaneously, including share points inside other share points. Using share points inside other share points is a great way to allow graduated access for complex file structures.[/QUOTE]

    Even so, the problem also extends to the server that consists of a single volume divided into two folders (each folder being a share point).

    In considering the variables, one thing we thought was that somehow users with 10.3.9 are affecting the servers, which then affect the other non-10.3.9 users. Is this plausible?

    August 10, 2005 at 8:43 pm #362764
    b_caceres
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    Here’s how aliases behave.

    1. I connected to the two “sister” share points through Command-K. Both share points appear and act normally.

    2. I select both shares and make aliases, then Get Info on each while the shares are still mounted. The “Original” is indicated as XXX and YYY for each. Everything is still OK. I leave the Get Info windows open.

    3. Next I unmount both share points. The “Original” info disappears and only the “Select New Original” button is available.

    4. I doubleclick on the aliases. Though the alias names retain their original file names (“XXX alias” and “YYY alias”), the “Original” info for both has changed to just one of the two sister share points (“XXX”). Both aliases now point to the one same share point and are for all intents and purposes two aliases to one share point.

    This is similar to the Dock behavior. When first installed, the Dock icons work properly. Once the share points are unmounted and then remounted, both Dock icons take on one of the share points names and act as though they were the same file.

    This is just baffling.

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