Re: Netatalk support in Samba.


Subject: Re: Netatalk support in Samba.
From: Matthew Keller (kellermg@potsdam.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 09:41:54 EDT


        For what's there, it functions fine. As someone else mentioned, it
doesn't DO much at this point- It's very elementary "check to see if
there is a .AppleDouble "resource file" for the given file, and if you
copy, move, delete or rename it, make sure the .AppleDouble "resource
file" get's copied/moved/renamed/deleted with it."

Chip Mefford wrote:
>
> Hi Matthew;
>
> This is pretty interesting.
>
> How functional is netatalk.c with samba 2.0.x ?
>
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Matthew Keller wrote:
>
> MK>
> MK> Your analysis was correct, it's nearly all "resource fork"
> MK> related, so
> MK> that Windows users accessing "Mac" files won't "munge" the
> MK> resource fork
> MK> data when moving "Mac" files around. And such. I'm in the process
>
> >snip

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