NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/sys/novell/9776

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Path: sparky!uunet!caen!med.umich.edu!jaynes
From: [e-mail] (William Jaynes)
Subject: Re: Mac NW-3.011 problem
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Originator: [e-mail]
Sender: [e-mail]
Organization: University of Michigan - Medical Center
References:  <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:33:27 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (William Jaynes) writes:
|> I have Netware 3.11 with Mac NW-3.011 installed, as well as NFS1.2.
|> The AFP.NLM is loaded with the nomultiple option.
|>
|> One of my volumes has all three name spaces installed, and is used as a shared
|> file space for Mac, Dos, and Unix systems.  One of the subdirector structures,
|> a rather large one of serveral megabytes, was originally created on a Unix
|> system.  When the shared file space became  available we copied (using tar)
|> the entire structure over to the shared Novell volume, and began to access
|> files in all three name spaces. I think that this is the only subdirectory
|> structure on the volume that was created this way.  Most of the others were
|> created originally using Dos or Macs.
|>
|> I now have a situation which seems to be unique to that subdirectory.  Some,
|> but not all, directories and files, when accessed through a Mac, cause the
|> following to happen:
|>
|>  1 - The desktop disappears.  That is, all windows and icons vanish, but the
|>      screen doesn't go black.
|>  2 - A few seconds pass.
|>  3 - The desktop reappears, with all windows collapsed back into the mounted
|>      volume icon.
|>
|> The access can be as simple as closing a folder (it never happens when openning
|> a folder) or opening a file with an application.  Permissions all appear
|> as they should be, or at least OK to me.
|>
|> I tried to rebuild the desktop on that volume using a Sys 6 Mac, but it
|> hangs after a few minutes, and won't complete.
|>
|> Anyone seen something like this or have suggestions.
|> --
|> William Jaynes, ITN, University of Michigan Medical Center, B1911 CFOB,
|> Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0704; [phone] - [e-mail]

OK.  I've found the problem.  A genuine bug in the Novell software.  If I create
a file, using Unix, with a name of more than 31 characters, the folder that
contains that file, and all other files in that folder become unusable from a
Mac.  You can look at the files,  but you can't touch them, and as soon as you
close the window on that folder, the strange behavior will happen.   As soon as I
delete that file (using Unix) the strange behavior goes away.  Again, this doesn't
just affect the offending file, but the entire directory structure from the folder
that contains the file on down.

So, don't try to have looong file names in your NFS/MAC/DOS shared file space.
The Macs won't be able to handle it.

--
William Jaynes, ITN, University of Michigan Medical Center, B1911 CFOB,
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0704; [phone] - [e-mail]