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skrbec@tophat4.rtsg.mot.com (Brad Skrbec) writes:
> I've had this peculiar problem at home, and haven't been able to
> figure it out.  For one account on my NeXT, when I move the browser
> to other people's home directories, I get a folder icon, rather
> than the "multiple homes" icon.  All of the other accounts
> seem to work correctly, just this one has the problem.
> 
> What gives?  Any ideas?

I ran into this too.  I even sent a bug report to NeXT about it giving, in  
great detail, the exact events which I thought had caused this behavior to  
start for my userid.

Based on the above I poked around a bit, switching between accounts and  
playing with various defaults & stuff (via the DefaultMgr.app program  
available on various FTP archives).  Turns out the answer is totally  
unrelated to the detailed explanation I gave NeXT.

In the Preferences application, switch to the panel that is all the way to  
the right (the one for Unix expert preferences, the icon includes a  
ribbon-like thing).  If you have set the preference "Large File System",  
then the Workspace will *-not-* display the double-home icons for other  
people's home directories.  

Apparently it assumes that "large file system" also means "large password  
file", and it doesn't want to keep track of the home directories of every  
user.  I only have a few users on my system, but I had "Large file system"  
set because the machine is hooked up to the AFS world.

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ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA