Subject: Re: Netatalk + Samba together: too many problems...
From: Matthew Keller (kellermg@potsdam.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 13 2000 - 11:02:11 EST
Patrick Peccatte wrote:
> 4) Last but not least: renaming, deleting, copying files from a Win client
> are absolutly insane operations. When you rename a file using a Win client
> for example, the renaming process does not rename the .AppleDouble
> corresponding file, so the file losts its resource fork from a Mac point of
> view.
compile Samba 2.0.5+ with the --with-netatalk flag.
> My questions:
> a) Is there any other problem using Netatalk and Samba sharing a same
> directory ?
Lots of them.
> b) Is exist operational solutions to avoid these problems ?
Nope.
> c) Do you know if the future NTFS support on Linux will give a solution for
> the point 4, allowing to store multiple file components (as Mac data and
> resource forks) in "streams" of a same file (a technique used by all Mac
> Servers running on NT box) ?
The filesystem isn't the problem- The differences in locking and
permission masking are.
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