Hi I have a couple of Macs runni

[ModularIT]

Hi

I have a couple of Macs running OSX that have been successfully intergrated onto my NT4 based PC network. Everthing is perfect except... the Macs leave extra files everywhere when they are saving onto the server. It appears that for every file saved another file of the same name (apart from a . at the start)and file type, but much smaller in size is created.

Eg. If I save a file named 'example file.doc' that is 915kb in size to the network from the Mac an additional file called '._example_file.doc' that is 1kb in size also appears.

I expect it may have something to do with the mac icons...?
Does anybody have any ideas about what may be happening and how to stop it?

Cheers
NickB

 

[Ecaboodle]

I think you might be wright about the icons, do you see the files on the NT server, but not on the macs? If you can't fix it in 20 call someone who can.

 

[ModularIT]

No, the second files can not be seen from the Macs. This has only been happening since I upgraded from OS9 to OSX. Other than swapping back to OS9, can you think of a solution for this problem? The main issue is that the Macs are generating alot of files and therefore alot of doubles which is obviously becoming painful to navigate for the PC users... I can't even hide the files from the PC users because the file type is the same as the original.

Other than swapping back to OS9, can you think of a solution for this problem (preferably from the MAC)?

 

[ModularIT]

Actually....I've discovered that the copy files are the Macs temp files for when the original file is opened. These files are remaining after the original file has been closed. If you delete these files they simply reappear the next time the original file is opened. Why wouldn't the Mac be deleting its temp files off the PC server? Any thoughts?

Cheers

nickb

 

[carlow]

Hi,

I think that the problem has to do with the different way pc's and mac's work. A PC file has only one fork, a mac file has two forks.

I presume that the pc server will always keep the two forks of the file. On a mac system they are also saved but they are not visible.

But I don't think that you can solve it on the PC.

hope this explains it

grillhouse