I know this appears to be a Mac-centric forum, but I thought that there may be some AFP gurus that here that could point me in the right direction. After all Windows Services For Macintosh is an AFP compliant server.
Iíve been scouring the web trying to find some technical info on how OS X (as an AFP client) interacts with SFM and Windows permissions. For example, if I create a folder from an OS 9 machine on an SFM volume while logged on to the server as ìUserAî, the Group is set to ìMy_Domain\Domain Usersî and the Owner is set to ìMy_Domain\UserAî, both with read & Write permissions.
If I mount the same volume on an OS X machine and view the permissions for that same folder, the Owner is set to the user that Iím logged into OS X as and the group is set to ìkmemî. Both Owner and Group have read & write permission also.
Idealy Iíd like to find an in depth explanation of the way OS X maps itís user database to Windows user accounts in this situation.
A problem I have, which I believe is related, is that when deleting anything from a server volume, I always get a dialog box stating that the file or folder being deleted must be deleted immediately. From what Iíve gathered so far, OS X is supposed to create a folder on the mounted volume called ì.Trashesî and put deleted files there. For whatever reason, this is not happening. This leads me to another question…does OS X not use the ìNetwork Trash Folderî on AFP volumes? Itís always been my understanding that the Network Trash Folder was mantained by the AFP server. So why wouldnít OS X just use the Network Trash Folder just as OS 9 did if the volume is mounter via AFP?
BTW, if I mount the same volume via SMB, Iím still forced to delete files immediately. However, I belive this is the correct behavior for SMB because it works the same way from Windows clients as well. Windows networking doesnít have a network trash type facility, as far as I know.
Anyway, if someone can shed some light on this issue Iíd love to hear.
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