Hello,

I have to maintain several DMG files that contain software
installations. I am no Mac OS expert, I mostly use the Mac to produce
Director projectors.

One DMG file is provided from another programmer. I receive updated
versions of it on my windows machine - as an e-mail attachment. I copy
it on our webserver (windows server). Downloading this file from the
internet to a Mac is no problem.

Now I had to produce my own DMG. I did it with disk copy. Afterwards I
compressed the file in order to minimize file size. Then I copied the
file to my windows computer in order to transfer it to the web server
with an FTP application. This web server is not located in our office
(like the above), and it is UNIX based.
The uploaded DMG seems to have some problems. When I click the link on
the website pointing to the DMG, the web browser opens the DMG file as
text inside the browser window. I then "right clicked" (ctrl+click on
the Mac) the link and forced the download this way. I tried to mount
the DMG but it seemed to be broken: The CRC check failed.

So I did the FTP transfer directly from the Mac to the web server. I
thought that maybe something got corrupted by copying it on the
windows computer first. Still the file opens as text inside the
browser when I click the link. But at least when I download the file
(per "right click"), the downloaded file is not corrupt and disk copy
can mount it.

But of course I want the file to be downloadable the direct way, by
just clicking the hyperlink. What did I do wrong?

Regards,

Christian Kirchhoff

Ok, the problem seems to be the permisssions on the unix server.

As I wrote in the former message, if I copy a dmg file (from a third
person) to our windows internet server, the download works as
expected.
The other dmg, made by myself and transferred to a unix server via
ftp, is not downloaded, when one clicks on the appropiate hyperlink
but is opened as text inside the browser. I am no mac expert and
wondered if I did something wrong when creating the dmg.

But if I copy the other dmg to the unix server as well, it is opened
as text as well. Thus I presume that those files need some special
settings on the unix server. Does anyone know more about this?

Regards,

Christian Kirchhoff