Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:38:27 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Lee Capps" <lcapps@cteresource.org>, "questions questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEJIFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051018122454.GA83298@topper.cteresource.org>
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Ah, then when the user 'cleans up' all those dot files from her Windows box that happens to be mounting the same volume exported via Samba, they become unusable! ;-) Ted >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Lee Capps >Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 5:25 AM >To: questions questions >Subject: Re: Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder > > >At 03:30 Tue 18 Oct 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> Right, but a lot of Mac files still use that awful resource/data fork >> thing >> that some idiot at Apple dreamed up and that isn't supported under NFS >> that I'm aware. > >Oh, how I loathe those resource forks. I've been experimenting >with these resource forks a lot lately (why? a long, boring, and >pitiful tale), and I'm happy to report that the Mac actually >_does_ seem to preserve the resource forks over NFS. If I copy a >file called "file" with a resource fork over NFS to the file >server it also copies over a file called "._file" which seems to >contain all that nice metadata. > >Still, I don't trust it. > >Lee > >-- >Lee Capps >Technology Specialist >CTE Resource Center > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.9/116 - Release Date: >9/30/2005 >
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