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Re: Mac-Files via Novell and NT

1998-06-10 14:59:13
Subject: Re: Mac-Files via Novell and NT
From: Fred Johanson <fred AT MIDWAY.UCHICAGO DOT EDU>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:59:13 -0500
I passed the question on to one of my users who has looked deeply into
this.  Here is his response.
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>This is half-right. It is certainly possible to share a mac volume on an
>NT server, in fact, one can share the same volume to Windows users, ftp
>and http users as well. This is the way out NT4 server is set-up. One
>home directory for all our users, regardless of whether they access the
>files from a PC, a Mac, ftp or the Web. And one login/password I should
>add.
>
>I use ADSM to backup these files without any difficulty - for
>simplicity's sake I've opted to define the volume as a domain. So
>everything under //<host>/Users/ get backed-up w/o restrictions.
>
>NT can certainly access the Mac's text and resource forks (I think this is
>the right terminology) but only on a Mac volume. As soon as you move the
>Mac file somewhere on the NT filesystem and then attempt to access it from
>a Mac you will lose your Type/Creator info which tells the Mac OS which
>application (or class of applications) it is associated with. I suspect
>this is what is happening with your user's files. As a short term
>work-around you can use ResEdit or other utilities to reset these.
>
>ADSM handles both text and resource forks (the resource fork contains the
>type/creator info) without difficulty as long as you explicitely set the
>"USEUNICODEFILENAMES" option. It is supposed to be set to "ON" for
>the single-byte WinNT version by default, but I have found that this was
>not the case.
>
>I have had no problems with permissions either but haven't tested this
>aspect extensively.
>
>I'm not sure what happens when you add Novell to this mix. Since you
>need to format your filesystem NTFS to create shared Mac volumes on NT I
>suspect that placing them on a Novell filespace will indeed cause the
>files to "lose" their file/creator attributes. But the WinNT/NTFS Mac HFS
>combination definately works for ADMS.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Arno Bosse
>Digital Media Lab
>Univ. of Chicago
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Fred Johanson
System Administrator
SEA
NSIT
University of Chicago
773-702-8464
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