Subject: Re: Netatalk support in Samba.
From: Matthew Keller (kellermg@potsdam.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 09:17:45 EDT
Your analysis was correct, it's nearly all "resource fork" related, so
that Windows users accessing "Mac" files won't "munge" the resource fork
data when moving "Mac" files around. And such. I'm in the process of a
much more elaborate set for Samba, that will hopefully allow locking to
work better over both of the products. The Samba Group is in the mist of
redesigning the Samba locking infrastructure, so I'm kind of on hold
until they get their structure finalized.
Ralph Zorll wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> many of you seem to use Netatalk together with Samba on the same server. So
> perhaps you are familiar with the following:
>
> Before compiling the samba 2.0.x sources, it is possible to configure the
> package with the option "--with-netatalk", which seems to activate
> experimental Netatalk support in Samba. Unfortunately I couldn't find any
> usefull information in the Samba documentation, related newsgroups etc. on
> what this support is supposed to do.
>
> In the sources of Samba, all I found was one file called "netatalk.c"
> containing several functions whose purpose seems to be the management of the
> resource fork, that means when Apple files in Samba shares are changed by
> Windows clients Samba automatically takes care of the resource fork. As I
> intend to offer shares on a Linux server to Windows clients as well as Apple
> clients, for me this would be a usefull feature. But I couldn't find any
> other files in the Samba source tree, where those functions are called.
> Though my C knowledge is pretty limited, I got the impression, that even if I
> get those functions compiled, they are never used by Samba.
>
> Do you know how the experimental Netatalk support in Samba is supposed to work,
> wether it makes sense to use it and what I have to do to get it working?
>
> Any answers/hints would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Ralph
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