In googling, it looks like this problem usually crops up connecting a PC to a Mac. But here's my issue:
We've got an XServe (OS 10.3) that's doing file serving. I can connect just fine over AFP, but many other users can't. We're using NetInfo to set up the shares (similar to the way SharePoints does it, but we've written some custom scripts), and when some users try to connect to the server, they get the following error:
"The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "afp://huxley/foo" could not be read or written. (Error code -36)."
(Huxley is the name of our server. Here, I'm trying to connect as user "foo.") But when I try to connect as myself, all is well. This is user-specific, not computer specific; no matter which computer a user logs in to, he or she gets the same behavior.
Moreover, I've verified that the user has full read/write permissions to his or her home directory. Also, the permissions I have on the box in question are the same as everyone else's; I'm not a privileged user, and, furthermore, plenty of "normal" users *can* connect. Just certain ones can't. I've also verified that all the shares are set up the same in NetInfo. Here's my listing:
huxley:~ root# niutil -read . /config/SharePoints/stpierre
name: stpierre
directory_path: /home/faculty/stpierre
afp_shared: 1
afp_name: stpierre
afp_use_parent_privs: 0
afp_use_parent_owner: 0
Which is identical (except for username) to shares that don't work. I've turned on logging for the AppleFileServer, but no useful data crops up in there. Furthermore, if the user connects via Samba -- to the same shared directory, mind -- then it works. (This would be a viable solution if we didn't still have lots of users on OS 9.)
I have found one trend, that's quite disturbing: All of the users having problems are in the last 400 or so of 3200. This is itself is actually due to a coincidence of the way I added the users, but when I deleted my own share from NetInfo (it was the first one listed) and appended it on the end, *I* stopped working. (Yes, I restarted AFP afterwards.) Is there some kind of maximum user limit?
Finally, just to head off the inevitable, yes, all boxes are properly networked, etc. Like I said, we can mount the shares via Samba just fine; it's clearly an AFP problem that operates on a per-user basis.
Any ideas?
We've got an XServe (OS 10.3) that's doing file serving. I can connect just fine over AFP, but many other users can't. We're using NetInfo to set up the shares (similar to the way SharePoints does it, but we've written some custom scripts), and when some users try to connect to the server, they get the following error:
"The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "afp://huxley/foo" could not be read or written. (Error code -36)."
(Huxley is the name of our server. Here, I'm trying to connect as user "foo.") But when I try to connect as myself, all is well. This is user-specific, not computer specific; no matter which computer a user logs in to, he or she gets the same behavior.
Moreover, I've verified that the user has full read/write permissions to his or her home directory. Also, the permissions I have on the box in question are the same as everyone else's; I'm not a privileged user, and, furthermore, plenty of "normal" users *can* connect. Just certain ones can't. I've also verified that all the shares are set up the same in NetInfo. Here's my listing:
huxley:~ root# niutil -read . /config/SharePoints/stpierre
name: stpierre
directory_path: /home/faculty/stpierre
afp_shared: 1
afp_name: stpierre
afp_use_parent_privs: 0
afp_use_parent_owner: 0
Which is identical (except for username) to shares that don't work. I've turned on logging for the AppleFileServer, but no useful data crops up in there. Furthermore, if the user connects via Samba -- to the same shared directory, mind -- then it works. (This would be a viable solution if we didn't still have lots of users on OS 9.)
I have found one trend, that's quite disturbing: All of the users having problems are in the last 400 or so of 3200. This is itself is actually due to a coincidence of the way I added the users, but when I deleted my own share from NetInfo (it was the first one listed) and appended it on the end, *I* stopped working. (Yes, I restarted AFP afterwards.) Is there some kind of maximum user limit?
Finally, just to head off the inevitable, yes, all boxes are properly networked, etc. Like I said, we can mount the shares via Samba just fine; it's clearly an AFP problem that operates on a per-user basis.
Any ideas?
