Copying files from OS X to Solaris

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choneysett

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I am working on the first OS X mac in our plant to test out problems with it. We run a Solaris server that I must use every day. I am able to mount the volume fine and pull files off of it to my computer, but if I try to copy to it, I get any number of error messages. Lately, I get The operation cannot be completed because an item with the name ".DS_Store" already exists. Other times I get the file cannot be found, etc. I keep hoping that upgrades fix this problem, but it just seems to be getting worse. It seems odd that the "world's most powerful operating system" has extreme difficulty copying to a network drive!:mad:
 
So are you mounting the server drive via samba?
When copying files to Windows via Samba, I get a new version of ".DS_Store" file from the Mac to the windows share every time. But I don't get the error that it already exists. Maybe there's a different way you can mount or login to avoid this. Like ftp?
 
It sounds like you don't have sufficient priveledges to replace the old .DS_store with a new one. Are you logged in as an administrator into the Solaris machine? That might help.
 
I use RBrowser (an FTP client) to connect with my two Suns here at home. I can connect via FTP in the finder, but I can only get files that way, not place files on the mounted drives.

RBrowser and RBrowser Lite (the free version) are Finder-like enough that I don't mind using them connecting to both my Suns and SGIs (even though the SGIs have Xinet's K-AShare installed on them).
 
Probably the simplest, most interoperable way would be to just mount exports from the Solaris machine with NFS - how are you mounting?
 
I am mounting just by going in the Finder to Go...Connect to Server. I am familiar with Macs and PCs, but when it gets to Solaris, I have to rely on our IT guys. What exactly is NFS? I see some suggestions to use an FTP program, but that would require me to download them to my computer before I could work on the files correct? I need to be able to work directly on the files that are on Solaris.

Thanks for all your help so far! I'm learning a lot!
 
After speaking with our IT guy I learned that both Samba and NFS won't allow my to keep resource forks (we don't have extensions on most of our files). He said that Apple File System (AFS) is the only way to keep resource forks which is I guess the way that I am mounting now, but don't have the best of luck copying!
 
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