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by gregberry

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To start I will give you an overview of our network. We have about 50 machines 20 mac, rest pc's. We have three nt 4 servers on two domains. The production department (6 macs) is a member of the "a" domain. On the PDC there are four volumes (1,2,3,4).

My problem is a puzzling one. We are trying to copy folders down from the NT server to the macs, however when we do, we get errors such as "file is in use" (even though it isn't) and "file is already copied"(even though it hasn't been). Ithought it was a permissions problem so I gave the whole volume from which we are trying to copy from full control to everyone. That didn't help. Another thing that is strange is if I move the folder to be copied to another volume or the system drive on the server and move it back to the original location, we can copy the file down to the macs without a problem. I am giving a lot of points away on this so try to help me out. Let me know if you need to know more.

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by cavedweller

I assume that since you have 2 domains you have 2 pdc's. Are you trying to copy on the same domain or across domains? Also, when you say "copy down to the macs" are you sitting at the mac and copying the files from the pdc or running the command on the pdc and copying the files to the mac?

Most sites probably setup an appletalk share on an NT Server (using services for mac) and let the mac users copy the files to/from there. The appletalk permissions are seperate from the NT permissions and "full control to everyone" doesn't sound like appletalk permissions. You probably still need to set up the appletalk volume permissions.

If you provide more information please be very specific about what your configuration is or you won't get any specific answer.

by gregberry

Appletalk permissions are already setup on the volumes. At this point I don't think it is a permissions problem, either with NT or Appletalk. The problem is simple, when I sit at a mac and try to copy a folder down from the pdc (in the same domain) I get those errors. Both appletalk share permissions and NT permissions are set for full control.

by katejlogan

On your volumes you have to set up permissions. They are different than NT permission (security tab).

If you are doing the copying off a file server (not a domain controller) you can add a user to the local machine accounts. Give that user permission to your mac volumes. Then when you are at your chooser on your mac, use that username that created on the local NT server (not domain users).

This way you keep the copying to a specific user that you added to a specific NT file server and you don't have to deal with NT domain user permissions which can be a real pain.

Katie

by raffi_

I have a couple of theories but first I have a couple of questions:

1. Can you reliably copy the same file FROM the NT server TO the Mac?

2. What errors are showing up in the Event Log?

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