Re: QNTC directory fun & games

[Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Paul, but testing shows that it /does/ actually change the name 
of the folder in Windows.

Fortunately in this situation I have access to both the iSeries and the 
Windows server in question, so I can see it from both points-of-view.

On 11/14/2012 9:15 AM, paultherrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> My understanding of QNTC is limited but I believe that QNTC is useful for
> creating links to existing Windows network shares, but not great for
> manipulating the Windows shares.  Renaming Incoming to Incoming.sv, I THINK,
> simply renames your link, but not the name of the folder/directory in
> Windows
>
> Paul Therrien
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>
> A colleague of mine has an interesting situation.  He used WRKLNK to rename
> a QNTC directory, /QNTC/server/share/Incoming as Incoming.sv, then created a
> new directory named Incoming in the same folder, expecting to end up with
>
> /QNTC/server/share/Incoming
> /QNTC/server/share/Incoming.sv
>
> And that's the way it appeared. However, when he tried to display the new
> Incoming folder using WRKLNK option 5, it said "Object not found".
> But Incoming.sv showed the contents of Incoming.
>
> The network guy deleted the //server/share/Incoming from Windows. At this
> point I'm a little hazy on what happened, but the Incoming.sv folder was
> also gone by the time I got to look at things.
>
> I used MKDIR '/QNTC/server/share/Incoming' and tried to look at its contents
> with WRKLNK option 5, but I got the same "Object not found", and I couldn't
> delete it from the iSeries.  However, I was able to look at its contents
> (empty) with iNavigator, that is, via /QNTC/server/share/Incoming.  Then I
> tried using iNavigator to delete it, and it went merrily along and said it
> deleted it, but a refresh of the iNav window showed it still there!
>
> So I tried it from the Windows side of things.  I was able to delete the
> Incoming folder, then created Incoming and Incoming.sv folders. I put a file
> into Incoming, and it was not visible from Incoming.sv, and vice versa, both
> from the Windows perspective, and from the iSeries.
>
> We thought all was well, but today the weirdness started happening again
> -- files in one folder show up in the other without being copied there.
>
> Anyone seen this?  It's a v5r4 system on its way out, so no IBM support
> (which my colleague found out when he called them to ask what was going on).
>
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