On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Peter Rundle wrote:
> Sluggers, > > Not knowing a thing about Apple Macs I've been asked to look at a > problem where a Linux Box is acting as a file server to a bunch of Macs. > For some files, when the user on the Mac tries to open a file (in Word) > a dialog comes up stating that the file is being modified by another > user (but it isn't). Can't help with this one.. i've not experienced it > > The files in question appear to have different ownership and group (i.e > rw-rw-r) to files that don't cause this problem. But changing the linux > permissions on the file server makes no difference. The Linux box is > running appletalk and Samba. The users claim that it happens whether > they use appletalk or "tcp/ip". (obviously tcp/ip is too low a level > protocol so I figure that they mean smb but refer to caveat about my > knowledge of Macs). I don't think Mac's talk smb at all, although I could be wrong since I happily never use windows :) You can use appletalk over a local network, or appletalk over tcp/ip. I'm definitely NOT a network engineer, but I think appletalk becomes another layer within tcp/ip. It's an option in the appletalk control panel in older mac's. I use this facility all the time, and as far as the mac's are concerned, once you connect via tcp/ip it just looks like appletalk. Older mac's have a permission system vaguely similar to unix, while OS X is unix, but I have no idea why the files should be appear to be in use, unless they actually are! How many mac's on the system? Perhaps someone else doesn't ever get around to closing files.. i have a number of people on my system who have no idea about quitting or closing anything ever. When I have this problem, that's always been the cause. > Is there some sort of semaphore system in use here? I.E does the macs > keep track of who has what file open in some other manner? > > Thanks for any pointers > > Pete. > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
