It kind of stemmed from working across SGI unix machines back in the day.
When you're working on single platform networks it's obvious that you'd want
the network file system to look the same from everywhere on the network but
it takes a bit for the penny to drop across platforms that use different
path structures. It's also one of the reasons I don't like using mapped
drives.
Networking is one if the things MS has never really understood and arrived
late to. What they're finally doing now was done much better and much easier
10 years ago.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Stefan Andersson
> Sent: 09 April 2008 08:01
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: UNC problems linux/windows, linktab.ini
>
> ha!, that a clever way of doing it. We have a bright system storage so
> I'm not sure how that samba thing works there though. But I'll have
> the sysadmin take a peek at it.
>
> regards
> stefan
>
>
> On 4/8/08, kim aldis <xsi(at)kim-aldis.co.uk> wrote:
> > This is going back a while, but if your UNC path starts with
> > \\Bds1\bdfswrkspc and your unix path /bds1/bdfswrkspc then so long
> as your
> > Samba config is set to deal with case in a sensible way it'll all
> just drop
> > out. Backslashes translate to forward slashes and linux doesn't care
> about
> > multiple slashes in paths. Always worked for me anyway. I could
> never be
> > bothered with linktabs, too much messing around.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> > > Behalf Of Stefan Andersson
> > > Sent: 08 April 2008 09:31
> > > To: xsi
> > > Subject: UNC problems linux/windows, linktab.ini
> > >
> > > Again...
> > >
> > > :)
> > >
> > > I'm just trying to figure out what to do and what the solution
> will be
> > > (we aren't on linux for the workstations yet)
> > >
> > > problem lies in that XSI saves UNC paths with (we don't have any
> > > mapped drives here)
> > >
> > > ex.
> > >
> > >
> \\Bds1\bdfswrkspc\testing_000\library\3d\textures\test\CONCFND2.JPG
> > >
> > > So reading the docs about the linktab.ini I should be able to
> write
> > > this and it would work?
> > >
> > > \\Bds1\bdfswrkspc /bds1/bdfswrkspc
> > >
> > > regards
> > > stefan andersson
> > >
> > >
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