Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] netatalk and samba cooperation
From: Andrew McNabb (amcnabb@argus-systems.com)
Date: Thu Jan 08 1998 - 20:49:19 EST
It seems to me that it wouldn't be very difficult to write a samba patch
that is netatalk friendly. It could keep track of appledouble, special
characters in filenames, etc. I'm not good enough at programming, but I
would appreciate it if such a patch were available.
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On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Philip S. Wachtel wrote:
> Hey! Thanks for the advice. I've been trying to figure out how to
> construct such a script, but I'm falling short. Could you by any chance
> give me an example or tell me where I can find the one that was already
> done? I would really appreciate it. I have a bunch of users on this thing
> and the .Apple* files are scaring me. :-)
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Philip
>
> At 02:18 PM 1/7/98 +0000, you wrote:
> >On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Philip S. Wachtel wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm using netatalk and samba to export a shared volume to both pcs and
> >> macs. Things are working well, but I do have two questions.
> >>
> >> 1. If a Mac user puts something on the volume and a PC user deletes or
> >> moves it, files are left in the .AppleDouble and I think in the
> >> .AppleDesktop as well. Does anyone know how to keep things straight under
> >> these conditions?
> >
> >Off the top of my head, you could write a script to prune orphaned
> >.AppleDouble entries, [I believe someone on the list already did this],
> >and run that from time to time, or via cron, or at boot-time, or when the
> >moon is gibbous[you get the idea :)], or you could compile the hfs module
> >with the tweak for sharing via netatalk, and export the whole hfs
> >partition.
> >
> >--
> >fsck -f -b 8193 /dev/cortex
> >
> >
> >
>
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