On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Joe Auty wrote: > on 11/20/99 11:33 PM, R Cent at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >> My users are now complaining about alias not pointing to the > >> right folders after the make them, even after the try the > >> "alias of an alias" trick. > >> > >> ...this problem be specific to RedHat 6.1? > >> > >> ...Anyone else have problems like this? > >> > >> ...My users are on System 8.6 > > > > > > I have the alias problem too with the Mandrake 5.3 release of > > RH5.2 using netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3. My users have OS 7.6 - OS > > 8.6. I'd love to get a work around for this. > > > > I have a possible solution to this, install MacOS 9. 9 has a "keychain > access" control panel which remembers passwords for things system wide. I > don't seem to be having any problems with my aliases now, nor do I have to > worry about entering a password! > are you sure ? are you not just talking about the possibility of getting the share via the alias resp. the "last-server" ? can you really create an alias pointing to a directory within a share and use it ? afaik the D.IDs change with every NetATalk-session and therefor you can use Your alias pointing to a share but not the one pointing to a folder within that ... please let me know, thomas
