bee@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Bill E. Eickmeier) (01/17/91)
I'm having a little trouble with Sun's PC-NFS and Windows 3. Using
Windows' File Manager I am able to drag the icon of a file from one
MSDOS directory to another, but if I try the same thing on a NFS
mounted directory, it fails.
For instance, let's say that on the unix machine I have 2 directories:
dir1
dir2
and I have a file in dir1 called file1. If I start up the file manager
and display both directories, I should be able to simply drag the file1
icon from the dir1 to the dir2 directory... but I'm not able to do this.
I get this sequence of events (the NFS mounted directory is I:):
1. The first popup window that appears says:
Copying... To I:\DIR2\ (I click OK)
2. The second popup window says:
replace I:\DIR2? (I click Yes)
3. The third popup window says:
Error copying file
Stop Cannot replace I:DIR2: Access denied
Yes, I have set 'net name' and the unix ownership is fine. I get the
impression that it's trying to replace the directory 'dir1' with the
file 'file1' which isn't quite right...
This same process works fine though if I try to move the file between
two DOS directories. It is able to copy a file between any two
filesystems if I use the "Copy..." option and specify the destination
directory *AND* the new filename (this is a pain) - but it doesn't work
if just the directory is specified.
If it matters, I'm using PC-NFS with MSDOS 3.3 and mounting directories
from SGI and NeXT machines.
Does the whole world experience this or just me???
Bill
Bill E. Eickmeier, The John P. Robarts Research Institute
P.O. Box 5015, 100 Perth Drive, Room 4-34.1, London, Ontario, N6A 5K8
519-663-5777 ext. 4406 fax:519-663-3789 bee@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca