Thanks for the reply, funny thing is that we use AFP to connect to the file server, when i use SMB it works fine and saves fine, go figure. But, when i connect via SMB Most files such as Quark Documents, EPS images don't show up with the right file type. They show up as Unix files for some odd reason. When i add .QXD or QXP to the end of a quark document it then shows the correct file type. The way we connect is by going to the hard drive-Network-PFW MAC SERVERS(AppleTalk Zone) then connect to the file server and all file types show up correctly and open correctly but do not save correctly. Now when i enter the server that way through Network i connect to the server so i see my files, i keep that window up, then i open up an SMB connection to that same server and put that on the right side of my screen. I decided to recopy the folder from the regular way we connect to the SMB share and the files show up correctly through the SMB share. I have to rename the folder though when making a copy then deleting the orginal folder since i don't want to have duplicates on the same shared drive. The only thing is when i do this, we are no longer able to see the right file types when connecting through network-PFW MAC SHARES. So im hesitant on doing this because A: This is gonna be a lot of work to transfer all of this B: Is it gonna stay working, but from my testing it works and saving issues are fixed through SMB. Any ideas on that novel i just wrote? It is confusing, because it is hard to explain, but i hope my thinking is on. I also contacted quark and they blamed the macintosh for the problems and told me to download a utility that show hidden files, i tried that and now it made the .DSStore files visible, which is a big no no, because i know one of these users will end up deleting one of these files and if deleted they will screw up the files stored on the server and i don't want to take that risk. Also, i forgot to mention, NT4 server that we upgraded from didn't experience these issues and i have no idea why.
I have any issue that maybe one of you might be able to help out on. When a user opens up a quark document on a 2000 server and goes to save it. It disappears. I can see it still on my 2000 file server, but not on the mapped drive to it on any mac machine. I have no idea why, i even disabled symantec on both the mac machines and the 2000 server itself, because i heard that could cause issues. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Bob.
