At 09:08 AM 11/20/00 -0500, Cini, Richard wrote:
I got the Mac services working. Apparently it
wasn't a problem on
the Mac side.
I wish my memory was good enough to jump in and help; it was only
a few years ago that I had NT Server exporting shares to my Macs.
I've been using TransMac to move disk images to the
ci. Moving them
across the network doesn't work because the type/creator information is not
moved. As far as I can tell, neither TransMac or HFV work with remote
(network) drives, so I can't get their translation benefits. Also, using a
null-modem setup doesn't transfer the credtor information. So, the
transferred programs are not usable.
There are a number of Mac utilities that can show you the type
and creator four-char IDs for a given file, as well as tools that
can automatically or drag-and-drop set the type/creator based
on wildcards. For example, you can set it up to change all those
generic *.TIF files to PhotoShop, then they'll work when double-clicked.
Similarly, you can change type/creator for disk images, if Apple's
disk utility wasn't recognizing them in its Open dialog. Also,
StuffIt is your friend, in that StuffIt will ignore type/creator
when you open the archive, and all the files inside will be
preserved with their Mac data and resource forks.
- John