Thanks Christian for the prompt and helpful response.
> > 1. Why doesn't Sharity automatically log out when unmounting (actually,
> > ejecting) a share from the Finder?
>> I am using the "home version", so I always have to manually "unlogin" from the
>> Sharity main window before accessing another share.
>
>There are pros and cons for automatically logging out on unmount. If you
>have a bigger license, you want to be asked for your password only once per
>session, even if you unmounted all shares of a server and then mount an
>other one.
Maybe it will be a user-selectable preference in the next version?
>
>> 2. I am trying to make "aliases" to commonly accessed shares by storing the
>> mounts of shares accessed with the CIFS browser. Later, when I try to mount
>> one of those shares, I get an error message that I am not the owner of the
>> directory. That's because such shares appear in the /Volumes directory, which
>> does not belong to a user. Is there a workaround? What's the easiest way to
>> create an "alias" to a share that can be double-clicked?
>
>We are still investigating how to make Apple Aliases work properly. This is
>a new field for us because we come from a Unix environment. Sharity
>understands the Unix equivalent of Aliases, though: symbolic links. If you
>want to create a symbolic link to a share on your desktop, open a Terminal
>window and type something like:
>
> cd Desktop
> ln -s /Network/CIFS/Server/Share AliasToShare
>
>Replace Server/Share with your server- and share name, of course. You can
>then rename and move the symbolic link with Finder.
This works. Thank you very much.
I actually noticed that you can set the directory of the mount point in the CIFS
browser configuration panel. I guess the error will not happen if I put the mount
point in my user folder.
> >
>> 3. The problem: I tried to back up (a lot of) files on a hard drive on a SMB
>> share. When I tried to copy a big folder, I got all sort of errors from the
>> Finder. Needless to say, this works perfectly with OS 9 and DAVE. So, what is
>> it? Sharity? OS X Finder? Sorry that I cannot be more specific. I have noticed
>> problems copying files inside a Mac OS X volume with the Finder. Have anybody
>> else had problems copying large folders with Sharity?
>
>The SMB share may contain files which are open by an application or
>otherwise locked. Sharity is not able to access these files. This is a well
>known problem of Windows backups. Do you know the exact error message(s)
>reported by Finder?
I was copying files FROM a HFS+ volume TO an SMB share, so that cannot be the problem.
If I remember correctly, the errors were: -43 (happens to me sometimes when I copy
folders with the Finder, too!), -35 (or -34) and -120. Not 100% sure anymore. (It's
kind of difficult to reproduce this because I put another drive in place of the slave
drive I normally have in my G3).
Thanks again.
Davide
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