From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 8 19:30: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7293437B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:30:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D42A43FA3 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:30:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h193VQT5075654; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 22:31:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E45CB2C.5080706@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 22:29:48 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Kelly Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd4.7 and Samba and OS X References: <33193.24.237.6.229.1044576540.squirrel@www.destar.net> <20030208123745.GB287@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> <3E452210.3040102@potentialtech.com> <200302081853.11954.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Kelly wrote: > On Saturday 08 February 2003 09:28 am, Bill Moran wrote: > >>>Maybe the Apple system has not got the necessary permissions to >>>create this extra file. This could be way off the mark though :). >> >>I just thought of this ... >>Samba has the option to "hide dot files" which would prevent the >>Apples from ever seeing the .appledouble (as I remember) files at >>all. > > Yeah But... The .AppleDouble directories were created by NetAtalk. They > were not the creation of clients which had connected to the share. > > But you may be on to something as MacOS X does like to create a dot > file/directory on shared resources, its just not called .AppleDouble. > More like .sD2 IIRC. Well, I could be wrong about, ".AppleDouble" specifically, but the whole theory that dotfiles could be disappearing into a Samba black hole is what I was trying to put across. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message