samba - Jun 1999 - Wastebasket/Recycle bin?

Am I missing something here?

Unless I am wrong, the "Recycle Bin" works only on
LOCAL drives.

I have not seen any options for network drives on any
of my 95, 98 or NT clients, or NT servers.  Somebody
correct me if I am wrong, and tell me how to enable it.

Like Jonathan Kelly, I mirror network drives at night to
a backup server which writes them to tape during the
day.  The backup server is running samba just so an
administrator can easily move files back to the
network drive if they were erased by mistake.
I mirror incrementally, so I have over a week of
backups on disk for easy retreival.

This works fine for me.

I'm not sure Samba is the resource to use for an
un-delete.  I think it should be a client option, although
I would see it as a benefit (and a headache).

Steve Arntzen
Computer Systems Administrator
Engineering Systems Inc.
Aurora, IL
630-851-4566
sjarntzen@esi-il.com

> Am I missing something here?
> 
> Unless I am wrong, the "Recycle Bin" works only on
> LOCAL drives.
> 
> I have not seen any options for network drives on any
> of my 95, 98 or NT clients, or NT servers.  Somebody
> correct me if I am wrong, and tell me how to enable it.
>
     <snip>
> 
> I'm not sure Samba is the resource to use for an
> un-delete.  I think it should be a client option, although
> I would see it as a benefit (and a headache).
> 
> Steve Arntzen
> Computer Systems Administrator
> Engineering Systems Inc.
> Aurora, IL
> 630-851-4566
> sjarntzen@esi-il.com
If I am correct, the Trash on the Mac is context based. It's contents
vary according to the drive you have selected (diskette, local drive,
network drive, etc). The contents of the Trash reside on the drive in
question. Emptying it affects only the selected drive. 

If the drive is a network drive, I thought the Trash was a per user
thing that existed while the drive was mounted (I'm a lone Mac in an
NT/Unix environment now, so I have no Apple server to play with any
more). When you dismount a network drive it asks you if you want to
empty the trash. I could be wrong on the details, because it has been a
while. But the memory of a message regarding network drive trash is a
firm memory.

Who's doing what, I'm not sure. The files and Trash directory are
probably on the server (you move links rather than copying files), but
might be managed by the workstation. There needs to be a basic
understanding between the two on what is being done. Joe's network Trash
on the server should not be seen by Ted. A systems administrator at the
server might see all, however.

You can see the overhead by mounting a PC diskette on a Mac and then
taking it back and mounting it on a PC. The files for desktop, Trash,
etc are all visible.


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Chris Hoogendyk

Network Specialist, Library Systems Office
W.E.B. Du Bois Library
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

<choogend@library.umass.edu>

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