Samba between Mac and BSD

[Jim Xochellis]

Hi Chuck, hi list,

On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 07:59 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> Jim Xochellis wrote:
>> Hi Chuck, hi list,
>
> Hi, Jim--
>
>> Chuck Swiger wrote:
>
>>> NFS is an entirely reasonable choice for filesharing against OS X; 
>>> netatalk
>>> would be a comparitively better choice for MacOS 9 and previous 
>>> versions. People who have laptops or other network roaming 
>>> environments will probably
>>> prefer Samba. [How's that for providing a fair slant on what each 
>>> protocol
>>> is well-suited for? :-)] >
>> What about the resource fork of the mac files.  Does NFS provide a 
>> transparent way to preserve the resource fork?
>
> For some definitions of "transparent".  If the client uses the 
> AppleDouble format, that wraps the resource fork and works fine 
> against a normal NFS server.  Some Mac NFS implementations do that, 
> some don't.

Very interesting, thanks! I would like to try this solution. Can you 
give me more info, suggestions, links etc?

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TIA

Jim Xochellis