Subject: Re: Local desktop aliases point to wrong server documents/folder
From: Dave Ritter (dave.ritter@newtimes.com)
Date: Tue Mar 27 2001 - 18:55:29 EST
aliases are broken in netatalk....if they work at all your setup, consider
it a fluke... netatalk dose not use persistent directory IDs that aliases
require...
> From: "Kevin M. Myer" <kevin_myer@iu13.k12.pa.us>
> Reply-To: "Kevin M. Myer" <kevin_myer@iu13.k12.pa.us>
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:37:22 -0700
> To: <netatalk-admins@umich.edu>
> Cc: <netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Bcc: "Dave Ritter" <Dave.Ritter@newtimes.com>
> Subject: Local desktop aliases point to wrong server documents/folder
>
> Hi,
>
> We are running netatalk-1.5pre3 under Linux 2.2.17 on x86 hardware.
> Recently, it was brought to my attention that some users are experiencing
> problems with local desktop aliases having the original source being
> changed, apparently at random. For example, each user has a folder in
> their home directory called MyDocuments. One user logged on, made an
> alias on his desktop of MyDocuments and began to work. At one point,
> before his very eyes, the alias changed from a folder to a trash can and
> when I did a Get Info, the alias now pointed to Network Trash. Strange.
> This was on a ruby iMac running MacOS 9.1; another ruby iMac user has
> reported similar problems and she is running either 9.0.4 or 9.1. I have
> not been able to duplicate on my machine this problem.
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