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GSNW (NT) to NW4.11 svr from MAC OSx (Panther)

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by tbragsda

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GSNW (NT) to NW4.11 svr from MAC OSx (Panther)

Sound convoluted enough yet? Well hears the thing. We recently replaced all the MACs including OSx. With no NWClient for them, I was forced to put in a Windows NT svr to act as a gateway running Gateway Services for NetWare. The old server has a dumping ground share that is a must have for these users, but just makes no sense to replace, or spend any money on. The gateway works great EXCEPT when trying to access \\svr\vol\shared. They can access \\scr\vol\shared\mac, or files on \\svr\vol\ etc. just not \\scr\vol\shared. They connect, the volume mounts (on mac desktop). When they try to open it, it just spins.

So, it is NOT a volume problem. They can interact with files on the same volume fine (\\svr\vol\file.txt, or \\svr\vol\share\mac\file.txt). Not a rights problem, I can connect to the \\svr\vol\shared from a XP box running IP only through the GW.

Any thoughts would be helpful

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Thanks
TBR

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by budthegrey

Can the MAC file system be passed through the GSNW? I eem to recall it only really wants to do dos/windows.

Unfortunately, the best solution to your problem is probably not the one you want to hear -- upgrade your NetWare to 6.5, and you'll get native file access to NetWare volumes from the Macs, with no additional client-side software. Plus all the other goodies like iFolder, MySQL, Apache, etc..

by tbragsda

I dont think the other post worked, so if this dups, sorry.

The MACs can save, copy files from;
\\svr\vol\file.txt
or
\\svr\vol\sub\file.txt
or
\\svr\vol\shared\sub\file.txt
just NOT
\\svr\vol\shared\file.txt

Its not the MAC resource fork prob. Any other thoughts?

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