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Date:      Sat, 8 Feb 2003 23:20:50 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: freebsd4.7 and Samba and OS X
Message-ID:  <200302082320.50304.dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
In-Reply-To: <3E45CB2C.5080706@potentialtech.com>
References:  <33193.24.237.6.229.1044576540.squirrel@www.destar.net> <200302081853.11954.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> <3E45CB2C.5080706@potentialtech.com>

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On Saturday 08 February 2003 09:29 pm, Bill Moran wrote:
> David Kelly wrote:
> >
> > 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.

Yes, I didn't mean to sound as if I was discounting your idea as I think 
you are on the right track. Here is a snippet from a filesystem which I 
know was being shared by NetAtalk and Samba. The only NetAtalk client 
recently was MacOS X 10.2.3 but has been used by everything since 7.6.1 
and a good number of FreeBSD's since 3-something.

ls -laCF | more
total 200310
drwxr-xr-x  18 dkelly  wheel       1536 Jan 15 11:35 ./
drwxrwxr-x   6 dkelly  wheel        512 Feb  7 14:27 ../
drwxr-xr-x   2 dkelly  wheel        512 Jan  6 16:46 .AppleDB/
drwxr-xr-x  11 dkelly  wheel        512 Nov 21 17:21 .AppleDesktop/
drwxr-xr-x   2 dkelly  wheel        512 Jan 15 11:35 .AppleDouble/
-rwxr--r--   1 dkelly  wheel       6148 Oct 18 16:14 .DS_Store*
-rw-r--r--   1 dkelly  wheel       6148 Jan 15 11:35 :2eDS_Store

I believe .DS_Store and :2eDS_Store are unique to MacOS X and created by 
MacOS X. "2e" is hex for an ASCII dot, my guess is :2e is an Apple 
escape mechanism for the dot.

Also think I have mounted the above on my Jaguar system via both 
AppleTalk and Samba protocols.

This week I upgraded the above FreeBSD machine to 5.0. Prior to the 
upgrade I removed all ports. Had a rough time trying to upgrade via 
"make". Another rough time trying to do a binary upgrade via CD. 
Eventually wiped my entire boot drive and did a clean installation from 
CD. So I don't have NetAtalk nor Samba reinstalled just yet.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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