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Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes

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On 2015-02-07, Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> wrote:
> Two Macs, A and B, and an external drive, D, connected to B via USB and 
> shared over the network.
>
> Alias files on B or D resolve correctly when accessed from B.  However 
> when B and/or D are mounted on A as shared volumes over the network, 
> and the same alias files are accessed from A, I get the message "... 
> Original can't be found.  Fix alias?".  And with some of them (but not 
> all), the "can't be found" message is preceded by a "Connection failed" 
> message.
>
> Finally, if I make an alias on B or D from A, it resolves correctly on 
> both machines.
>
> Is this a "feature" of OS X?  Any ideas what is causing it and how to 
> fix it?

Take a look at the aliases that are not working, and check to see what
the owner, group, and permissions settings are for the *destination*
file or folder. Is it possible the user account with which you connect
to this shared volume does not have permission to access the destination
file or folder for the alias? 

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Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-07 17:55 -0500
  Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-07 23:03 +0000
  Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2015-02-08 06:07 -0500
    Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes android <here@there.was> - 2015-02-08 12:17 +0100
    Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-08 07:17 -0500
  Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-08 13:36 +0000
  Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-08 08:52 -0500
    Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-08 14:55 +0000
      Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-08 15:14 +0000
        Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-08 18:28 -0500
          Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-08 23:50 +0000
      Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-08 13:09 -0500

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