Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC chad at shire.net
Tue Oct 18 15:30:50 PDT 2005


On Oct 18, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

>
> 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! ;-)

Not usually.  meta data in resource forks is supposed to be non  
essential data (window positions, etc).  If they are using the stuff  
cross platform they probably won't have resource forks in the first  
place or can survive without them.

In practice it is not a problem for most people.  And on OS X most  
apps do not create resource forked files anyway

Chad

>
> Ted
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at 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
>>
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