The backing store may be the problem as Xsan may not be providing
a device name that the Finder is happy with. At least according
to an Apple SE who has recreated the problem.
It's not particularly special. To the client it's not an XSan
volume but and AFP volume.
But can't the problem be at the AFP server level then, since it's
sharing out the Xsan volume?
But that fails to have any relationship to an XML entry created in
the dock of a user not on that machine. Your problem is with the
Finder adding it to the dock.
Here's the setup. Xsan volume is called FileRAID. Folders in this
volume called Creative_Services, Commercial, IS_Drive, etc. Xserve
called files. If you have any suggestions as to how to check/change
the AFP sharepoint and how it's described, I'm all ears.
I suspect this is a red herring.
Just not sure if it's on the server or client side, especially
if it's a bug in the client FS on how it handles Xsan volumes.
Well the client isn't seeing an XSan volume. It's seeing an AFP
volume. With AFP volume object descriptors, and the Finder and Dock
are responsible for any mangling those. To the user the backing
store of the sharepoint is already abstracted and the user is
ignorant.
Well, I'm ignorant as to where the problem actually lies as well.
I'm just trying to get a fix for it, but have no clue where to
really dig into it. The fact that several other people, including
an Apple SE has reproduced it suggests that it's not just a
misconfiguration with my setup.
I didn't mean you or your users were ignorant ppl, I meant that
there's no relevant information we'd expect the user to be able to
have regarding what the backing store actually is, to them it should
just be another AFP volume regardless. Their descriptors for it are
AFP objects. They see no XSan.
Some further debugging in the Finder and Dock is needed. That's
rather beyond the scope of this list. But someone needs to look at
the differenced in the descriptors being created by your drag and
drop process. Therein would lie the clues.
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-dhan
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