Scott Small 🇨🇦

#Netatalk experts: any idea why, as of late, my AFP #GlobalTalk shares have been showing up with generic document icons on Mac OS 7.x? But the icons look just fine on Mac OS 9?

This started happening around the time I migrated my shares from my NAS over to a Raspberry Pi, and upgraded to Netatalk 4.3.2.

I've confirmed that the share folder permissions are the same on both systems, as well as the permissions on the hidden “.Icon$\r” files at the root of the shares. However the Finder does not allow me to change the icons via the Get Info screen (on both Mac OS 7 and 9), which seems to imply that there _is_ a permissions issue of some kind. Yet, folks can read and write to the shares just fine.

I tried deleting the hidden icon files, which made no difference (other than causing the default Netatalk icon to show on Mac OS 9, since I removed the custom icon). Changing the "legacy icon" option in the Netatalk config also makes no difference, other than making a different Netatalk icon show on Mac OS 9.

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Feb 26 at 12:34amWeb
Show threadScott Small 🇨🇦Feb 26
@dmark Hoping you can shed some light on this Netatalk mystery 🙂
Show threadKen McLeodFeb 26
@smallsco For what it's worth, I can see your icons when the shares are mounted under Mac OS 9.2.2 (AppleShare 3.9.2), but not when mounted under 7.5.3 (AppleShare 3.6.1) or 7.0.1.
Show threadScott Small 🇨🇦Feb 26

@_the_cloud Yeah, that tracks with what I'm seeing as well, thanks. I suspect it's either a Netatalk bug or I goofed up something weird when I migrated my shares to the Pi a couple months back.

And thank you for the greeting! I'll be dropping this year's calling card when the event starts on the 1st - it's an app again, and I'm going to post a little writeup about it here 🙂