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Ha.

If I stop using network homes then my shared library behaves OK.

So I think that indicates there is something fundamentsally broken here which I am not lkikel to be able to fix

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– without the spelling mistakes, sorry.

I want to create a shared library on my Panther server, but it doesn’t seem to happen . I really can’t work out what I am doing wrong, but it must be me, because Googling doesn’t reveal anyone else with the same problem.

First of all you need to know that I have network home directories, and these work fine. The share point for the home directories is:
MacintoshHD5/U

For test purposes I have created this directory that I want as a shared library:
MacintoshHD5/Eric

In WGM I have given this read access to group and world, have shared it with AFP and allowed guest access.
I have checked “create a mount record” , using AFP, and checked “Use for shared library”
I can save these changes in WGM with no error messages.
Server admin has “enable guest access” checked for the AFP protocol

Now if I go to a 10.3.9 client and reboot, if I go to /Network I can see an alias for Library. Great. So I click it – but what I see is the contents of the share point U NOT Eric.

Also, if I manually mount the share Eric by on the client, choosing “Go” from the finder, I DO see Eric with the CORRECT contents.

I have now fallen off the edge of my knowledge.

if I use the inspector in WGM, all look sanitary, though I don’t really know what I am looking at.

I assume that the fact that mounting Eric manually shows the correct contents indicates that there is nothing wrong with the disc or the folders themselves.
So it looks to me that some table or database entry somewhere has the wrong entry – it is sharing U when it should be sharing Eric.

But I don’t know where to look or how to fix it.

I’d be VERY grateful for any help – this is driving me mad!

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