File on NT server from Mac is corrupt. Cannot open, move, copy, delete

[Jimbo2112]

Hi All,

Have tried this question on the Mac forum with no joy, so I thought I would speak to the NT boffins (if there are any left!)

I am running an NT4 server (SP6) and also some OSX Macs. Sometimes (getting more often) when a file is moved from the Mac to the NT system a file will become corrupted. The file will not open, delete, copy, move etc and when you look at the properties of the file it only carries the first tab for information, which further suggests corruption of the file.

Things to note:

* Rebooting the NT server unlocks the file and allows it to be deleted
* The problem seems to occur only to files that are in the same area each time
* The problem can occur to any format of file, so far it has happened with .txt, .pdf, .tif
* I often kill off processes associated with resource forks left open under people's login profiles to NT (resource forks created when files are moved from Mac to NT, not sure this has any relation to problem)

Any help would be great!

Cheers

Jimbo

 

[itsp1965]

Although I am not very knowledgeable about Macs, I am assuming you have services for Mac installed on your NT box. My question is since OS X is more Unix like, have the Mac filetypes (resource/data fork) remain the same? In other words do you still need to maintain a Mac volume on the NT box or can you use something like NFS/Samba instead? Sorry if I am being a bit off topic regarding this.

 

[Jimbo2112]

Thanks for your response. Would changing to Samba/NFS on the Mac remove the need for resource forks? They tend to clog up the NT system and get left as open processes in the Server Manager on the NT server. I tend to delete these when I think they are not needed, but am not sure if I am creating the problem by doing so. If every file whose resource fork I deleted became corrupt I would have a surefire answer to my problem, but it is very sporadic.

Cheers

Jimbo

 

[itsp1965]

See that's why I am not too sure Jimbo. I would figure OS X would no longer use the old Mac file format and use a Unix based file system instead. If you haven't done so already I would recommend you cross post in a Mac forum