Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:38:24 +0300 From: Jim Xochellis <dxoch@escape.gr> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Samba between Mac and BSD Message-ID: <09231428-B37B-11D7-9327-003065C4E486@escape.gr> In-Reply-To: <3F0D9B69.90205@mac.com>
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Hi Chuck, hi list, On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 07:59 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Jim Xochellis wrote: >> Hi Chuck, hi list, > > Hi, Jim-- > >> Chuck Swiger wrote: > >>> NFS is an entirely reasonable choice for filesharing against OS X; >>> netatalk >>> would be a comparitively better choice for MacOS 9 and previous >>> versions. People who have laptops or other network roaming >>> environments will probably >>> prefer Samba. [How's that for providing a fair slant on what each >>> protocol >>> is well-suited for? :-)] > >> What about the resource fork of the mac files. Does NFS provide a >> transparent way to preserve the resource fork? > > For some definitions of "transparent". If the client uses the > AppleDouble format, that wraps the resource fork and works fine > against a normal NFS server. Some Mac NFS implementations do that, > some don't. Very interesting, thanks! I would like to try this solution. Can you give me more info, suggestions, links etc? [...] TIA Jim Xochellis
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