AFP file server and opening files

[Anonymous]

OK this is a weird one. I *think* it started after 10.3.5 server upgrade. I can’t open a file on the “Public” share by double clicking. The app that would open it launches, but the document does not show up. This is true for any type of documents.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks,
Christian

[Anonymous]

No answer, but similar issue here:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@198.DiLeaWd9xKz.0@.689a91f7/0

doug

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply. That thread now shows that I’m not alone and Apple seems to be working on it. It’s a bug in 10.3.5 that screws up automounts apparently.

Thanks,
Christian

[Nick Fahey]

Hi,

I’m glad to have found your post! I’ve been trying to debug this one for two days now. I wonder if anyone has seen or heard anything from Apple on this issue? There are a couple of posts on the server mailing list, but no public statement from Apple. It’s a huge bug to inflict on people – particularly via a service patch. It reminds me of the early days of MS NT Server when you always expected a rollback would be necessary after a service pack would wreaked its havoc. Seems like Apple is treating us as beta testers in the same way that Microsoft always has. Foolish me, I expected a little better.

I’ve generally found OSXS network shares and automount facilities to be pretty flakey. I’m wonder how others have fared in trying to get this stuff working? I’ve worked over the years with Netware, FreeBSD, Linux and the Microsoft server offerings, and I’ve not encountered any system with such a crappy network mount system. There is no really clean way with this system to present users with seamless access to network shares. Users are obliged to dig about in a confusing array of Finder locations to find sharepoints. One typo in an automount setup can cause the client to hang on login (requiring a Netinfo edit to blow away phantom mount points), and that’s if you can even get a share automounted successfully to begin with.

Now, with the 10.3.5 update, users can’t open files directly from a share and I also suspect some serious permissions problems have been introduced (since the upgrade, group permissions appear to have no effect on my automounted share).

Jesus wept! Sharing is the bread and butter of servers. The Apple engineers on this one have really missed the boat. Maybe this stems from Apple’s peer-to-peer heritage? I’ll be perservering with OSXS and our Xserve, in the hope that Apple will come good in the end, but any new servers I install in the meantime will be BSD.

Nick

[Anonymous]

Nick,

I agree with most of your post, but I will tell you that they are working on it and it will be fixed pretty soon. Hang in there.

Thanks,
Christian

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