im having 2 issues with OS-X at the moment im hoping others may have experienced and have a fix for
1) Symbolic Links v Alias' on OS-X
On the internal OS-X (10.2.3) File Server, i have a globally available share point ie no accnt needed to access. Inside this share point i have a symbolic link pointing to a directory on another folder on a different hard drive (same machine). In anycase, when the PC guys access the drive they can navigate to this symbolic folder ok, when i mount it in OS-X it navigates fine...but the Graphic designers who still use OS-9 only see a generic file icon with an alias arrow over it, and when double clicked says "The Alias "<folder name>" could not be opened because it is in use".
Not a permissions problem - ive fgured that out. Obviously i could make an alias, but te PC guys wont be able to make any use of that. Is there anyway to make this work without having to resort to an alias and a symbolic link?
2) Share points with the same name.
We also have an internal Win2K server which is mainly a testing box for ASP/.net blah blah. Anyway, there is a share point on that called "Clients" which is accessed by 'SMB://devserver/clients'.
On our mac file server there is also a share point called clients which is accessed by 'afp://macserver/clients'
I have shortcuts for both of these on my desktop, when i mount say, the macserver one first (via the alias) it mounts fine. Then say i double click on the devserver alias to mount that, it opens the mounted hard drive on the mac!
Same thing happens when i do it the other way around. Only resort is to applekey+K and mount it that way
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