From: Dan D. <dde...@po...> - 2003-01-31 16:07:41
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Hi Joerg, thanks for your response. On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 09:59 AM, Joerg Lenneis wrote: > I am researching fileserver solutions for Macs and Mac/PC mixed > environments at the moment Really? If you come up with anything that will work well, please let me know! :-) > Windows NT/2000 stores resource fork data as part of file > attributes, which are a feature of NTFS. DAVE knows about this... > Now, it would be interesting to find out a) more about Linux file > systems that support extra attributes (xfs, for instance has Posix > access lists) b) what would be necessary to get netatalk to use such a > feature on a suitable file system. Very interesting. That probably explains why I'm having a problem with using DAVE connected to a Linux server running Samba. It can't seem to copy files that have resource forks. For example, when I save a file from Photoshop using the "Save as..." command, that file cannot be copied to the Samba server (connected using DAVE), but the same file saved with the "Save for Web..." command can be copied just fine. I've been back and forth with the developers at Thursby, but they haven't been able to give me an answer (I suspect that they just don't have a Samba server there to test). I've tried ext2 and ext3. Maybe I'll try XFS and see if that helps. It's unfortunate that Linux can only use an NTFS volume in read-only mode. So in our situation (some desks with Windows, some with Mac OS 9, some with Mac OS X) it seems to me that we only have two options for a file server if we don't want to have those hidden files (which we don't). 1) Use a Mac OS X server with an HFS+ volume (as far as I can tell, the HFS+ volumes don't do the hidden files, right?), or 2) use a Windows 2000 server with an NTFS file system. It's unfortunate that Linux isn't an option for us, because that's the one I really want to use (most of the Web sites we develop run on Linux servers). Oh well. > A question: Do you use CNID on your server as the DID scheme and if > yes, are you happy with the stability so far? Yes, I'm using CNID. When I switched to it, it did seem to make it a bit more stable (got rid of the dancing icons at least!), but my users still get a lot of -50 errors when they try to move files around. It's getting to the point where I'm gonna have to switch to something else. Cheers --Dan |