Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 19:52:54 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: mbeger@integration.ab.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Server in a mixed Mac and PC environment. Message-ID: <199902180152.TAA21195@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from mbeger@integration.ab.ca of "Tue, 16 Feb 1999 10:15:48 MST." <8725671A.005E0A9C.00@mail.digitalinc.net>
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mbeger@integration.ab.ca writes: > The company that I work for offers some business and Internet solutions > using FreeBSD. > We would like to know if FreeBSD will work as a file server in mixed PC > (WIN95) and MAC office envirnment. There seems to be some question as to > the ability of the file server to read MAC files and MAC's being able to > read other files from the file server. An example of the file types in > question are Adobe Pagemaker and Photoshop. If anyone can tell me if this > solution is possible, please email me at mbeger@integration.ab.ca Add NETATALK to your kernel config. Install the netatalk-asun port for the Macs (netatalk with the asun patches works better with MacOS 8.0 and newer). Install the samba port for the PC's. And you are cooking with gas. All of the cross-platform applications I know of on the Mac place all of the critical information in the Mac file's data fork. Netatalk places the data fork in the "normal" place one might expect on a FreeBSD filesystem. Resource forks get tucked in subdirectories named .AppleDouble. You should configure Samba to hide the .AppleDouble directrories. This past year I've used FreeBSD, Samba, Apache, and Netatalk to run a repository at work where files are dropped to be shared with everyone else in the company. The biggest problem is dealing with authentication and access control. I solve it by declaring, "If you don't have an account on my box then you can't write on my disk." Meanwhile everyone inside the company firewall can read the exported/shared directory. Its also exported read-only via NFS. Its also in Apache's directory space if anyone wanted to use a web browser to see the files. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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