Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder

Lee Capps lcapps at cteresource.org
Tue Oct 18 19:26:32 PDT 2005


At 16:30 Tue 18 Oct 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

Okay, this is getting pretty OT, but just let me say--don't lose
the resource fork to a Mac Quicken file.  I don't know what's in
there, but it's more than the window positions and the color of
the file.  But you're right--most of the time it is no longer an
issue.  We just happen to have tons of legacy Mac files.

Lee

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Lee Capps
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