Re: [WinMac] NT login and Mac access problem
Tony Green(tony.green[at]worldnet.att.net)
Fri, 9 Apr 1999 11:03:43 -0500
>After login in to our NT server as any user (with no administrative
>privileges), from my mac,
>the mac volume window opens up and I am able to see every directory in it.
>
>However, I am not able to do anything else with the volume or with any of
>the directories in the volume, hell I can't even get control of my mac,
>mouse moves but it seems like the connection is hanging my mac, the two
>little arrows next to the Apple Menu items (MacOs8.1) stay on as if there
>was somehting being either fetched or sent to the server.
I just rejoined the list yesterday to ask this very question! Just to muddy
the waters, I can offer a suggestion, although I still have the problem.
>If I login as an administrator, I don't experience this problem,
>furthermore, if I login as a user from some other mac I don't seem to
>experience the problem either.
Logging in as administrator always works for me, too. But when a user can't
login from one machine, he can't login from any other, either. So I feel
safe eliminating *specific* client Macs as causing the problem.
Some things I've tried that seem to work: Recreating the Mac volumes seems
to help temporarily. In another case, a user suddenly couldn't close the
window or see files in a specific folder. I created a new folder *on a Mac*
logged in as administrator, set the permissions for the user's group, and
the problem disappeared. But for months, this folder was fine for this
user. So what changed? Arrggghh! Also, try turning off Calculate Folder
Sizes.
The "hang" problem is covered under the topic "Microsoft Windows NT Server
3.51, 4.0 -- Macs "hang" while connected to server" at
<http://www.macwindows.com/servtips.html>, but there's no mention of the
problem going away when users login with administrator privileges. Since
this issue seems directly related to setting permissions on directories, I
have a few questions of my own. Can a "group" (set up in User Manager)
become "corrupted"? Can a directory's ACL become "corrupted"? I've tried
deleting user accounts and making new ones, and resetting permissions on
folders (from the server side in Explorer), but the only thing that made a
noticeable difference is creating folders on a Mac and setting permissions
there. I'm willing to recreate the directory structure and reapply
permissions, but I'd like to know if I'm even on the right track.
Our setup: one Compaq Proliant Pentium Pro (160 meg RAM) running NT Server
4.0 SP3 with a Compaq NIC and two 3Com Super Stack II hubs (a 12 and a 24
port). Client machines are mostly Macs (running 8.1 with AppleShare 3.8)
and some Windows clients (running Windows 95). There are typically 3-7 Mac
users connected.
All suggestions welcome! Thanks!
Tony Green
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