File Path Tracking

[Graham J Lee]

On 16 Oct 2007, at 10:23, Markus Hitter wrote:

>
> Am 16.10.2007 um 10:25 schrieb Graham J Lee:
>
>> (admin and root had local home directories, everyone else accessed  
>> a file server for theirs, which is actually less distributed (and  
>> less insane) than the NIS/NFS-style setup you describe)
>>
>
> Thousands of Homes on a single server can be pretty hefty and  
> distributing this evenly to all the workstations gives a long list  
> of (auto)mounts, but makes a giant file server obsolete, as well.
>

It makes the administration easier though because there are fewer  
'important' systems; the workstations are just like heavy Sun Rays.

>> I suppose the point is that sharing an alias between a 'local' and  
>> 'network' user is not guaranteed to work, but then that rarely if  
>> ever happened
>
> The Dock uses Aliases, for example.

I don't know if it's because the aliases also refer to the file by  
path or because MCX preferences do some magic rewriting, but that  
never caused a problem.

> As do some of the right side menus, e.g. Classic. The latter stops  
> the Finder from loading if it points to an unresolvable volume.
>

Ah, well I had a simple and effective approach to Classic support ;-)

Cheers,
Graham.