Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Re:

From: Anthony Johnston <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 98 13:18:40 -0500

Wow thanks,

after two weeks of needless waiting and run around from various MS 
support people, I still didn't get any kind of answer to what the problem 
might be. And please, somebody add it to the FAQ, because I know I'm not 
the only one who wants to know.

Anthony

a sun said something resembling:

>
>this should probably be a FAQ. could people who maintain such things
>add it in? here's a synopsis of the skipping icon problem, the
>solution, and why the solution doesn't always work:
>
>	1) in os8, apple is now using more bits of the finder info
>	   field than it did before. netatalk can cleverly do file
>	   typing based upon dot suffixes. to do that, they generate
>	   the appropriate creator/type fields and send them
>	   back. unpatched versions of netatalk-1.4b2 assumed that
>	   sticking 0's in this field would be an all right
>	   thing. 
>
>	   result: os8 macs see the incorrect finder info field and
>	           try to update it. as this was a "virtual" field
>	           anyway, it never got updated, resulting in constant
>	           attempts to update.
>
>	2) the solution involves allowing os8 to actually go in and
>	   update the finder info while still generating our own
>	   creator/type fields.
>	
>	3) why doesn't the solution always work? this may be due to a
>	   couple reasons:	
>		a) you're not actually allowed to modify the
>	           appropriate .AppleDouble file. make sure the
>	           .AppleDouble files are modifiable at least long
>		   enough to fix the finder info.  
>
>		b) the appropriate .AppleDouble file somehow got
>	           scrambled in a way that isn't easily fixed. your
>	           best bet here is to remove the offending
>	           files. hopefully, they shouldn't have any resource
>	           fields as they represent auto-generated info.
>
>-a