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From: GR.JLB@isumvs.iastate.edu (Jeff Balvanz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Creating System 7.0 aliases on Netware 3.1?
Message-ID: <1991May28.152050.15871@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 28 May 91 15:20:50 GMT
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We are running Netware 3.1 on a Zenith 386/33E here and using it to
drive (among other things) a Mac lab.  The Macs are connected
to a PC Router via LocalTalk, from thence to the server via
EtherNet.  I'm trying to put the Mac System 7.0 diskettes on the
server as folders, and try as I might I cannot put a System 7.0
alias file on the Netware volume.  (Unfortunately, the Tidbits disk
contains an alias to the Control Panels folder that HAS to be in
that folder.) The error I get is "The file "Control Panels" couldn't
be written and was skipped (access privileges error)." I'm part of
the supervisor group, so I can't imagine what kind of privileges it
requires!  This occurs whether I copy the file using System 6.0.7 or
System 7.0.  Attempting to create an alias on the Netware volume
from a System 7.0 machine results in the same message.

To add to the confusion, all of the above works fine on our
departmental staff server (which runs Netware 2.2 and is connected
to the Macs via a Cayman Systems Gatorbox).

Has anyone else seen this sort of problem?  We will be upgrading to
3.11 on the server (and presumably a newer version of the pc router
software on the router) shortly; will this solve the problem?  If it
doesn't, I'll have to mount the System 7.0 disks as DiskCopy images,
and trying to explain to Joe User how to use DiskCopy will be
considerably more difficult than saying "Take these folders and copy
them to diskettes with the same names."  Thanks in advance. . .


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