Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] OS 8.5+ and copying applications to shared filesystems
From: Malcolm McLeary (mim@mac.net.au)
Date: Mon Aug 16 1999 - 22:59:35 EDT
Sam,
> I'm trying to make use of netatalk for our site and while I've
> been quite successful using pre-asun2.1.4-35, I seem to have run into
> some rather strange behavior.
>
> If I want to copy anything that MacOS recognizes as an
> application, using OS 8.5 or higher, the file appears to transfer
> properly but at the end the Mac shows me that the file couldn't be
> coppied because "error type -50 occured". Looking through include/asp.h,
> it would seem that all the error codes are -50##. Not especially useful
> it seems.
> What is very strange (although perhaps not as strange as the
> problem appearing in the first place) is that OS 8.1 seems to have no
> trouble what-so-ever copying these applications over the network.
>
> My guess is that somewhere along the line, netatalk is trying
> to assign some sort of file type information and is failing. I can't
> seem to figure out where this is going on or why it would fail with 8.5
> and succeed with 8.1. I'd appreciate any comments regarding similar
> experiences.
I have EXACTLY the same problem on a Cobalt Qube. I have been able to
reproduce it on a 2nd Qube, but am yet to try a Qube 2, but I think they're
both running the same version of netatalk.
Unfortunately I'm yet to resolve the problem, however in my instance it's
only "group" volumes which are affected ... personal (i.e. home
directories") seem to be ok.
Its NOT a quota problem ... its only a problem for "applications" so its my
guess that Finder is trying to set something to indicate that the file is an
application (possibly "executable"?) and netatalk is refusing to play nice.
Cheers, Malcolm
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