[OpenAFS-port-darwin] mozilla on afs probs

[David Botsch]

Our "solution", unfortunately, has been to uninstall Mozilla and Camino 
and limit our machines to IE and Safari.

I suppose I could set up some sort of local downloadable temp 
directory, but that makes things complicated for the enduser to have to 
remember to save to one place or it doesn't work (and then to copy 
files over to their afs home dir).

On 2003.05.27 11:53 Noah B F Abrahamson wrote:
> It's a known issue that Mozilla-based browsers (Camino, Netscape, 
> etc) cannot use non-HFS volumes for cache. You cannot, for example, 
> install either on a UFS-formatted Macintosh volume and expect it to 
> work.  That limitation exists with some other, rare Mac OS X 
> applications, too. There's no workaround.  I suppose you could create 
> a read-write-able HFS disk image of a non-HFS volume and use that for 
> cache, if you're so inclined, inelegant as that might be.
> 
> Noah
> 
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> Noah B F Abrahamson
> ITCS, Sites Mac
> University of Michigan
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 11:40 America/Detroit, David Botsch 
> wrote:
> 
>> I was just reading through openafs-info archives and noted your 
>> problem with mozilla not being able to save files for users with afs 
>> home directories.
>> 
>> We've got the same problem.. happens with both mozilla and camino. 
>> Safari seems fine as well as IE, though, haven't tried Mail.app.
>> 
>> We, too, are using 10.2.5 and thinking about going to 10.2.6.
>> 
>> Have you found a solution yet to the mozilla can't save files 
>> problem?
>> 
>> ps this did not happen with earlier versions of Jaguar. I forget at 
>> which version I first noticed the problem.
> 

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