[Netatalk-admins] sharing a CD or iso file.

[Sam G. <net...@sp...>]

Greetings.

I'm trying to share CDs or CD images with MacOS8.0 and 
MacOS9.1 clients.  I used to do this all the time with a 2.2 
kernel and 1.42 netatalk series.  Now I'm using a 2.6.12 and 
netatalk 2.0.3 and I can't do it.

The first hitch is when I go to mount the CD.

`mount -t hfs -o afpd,uid=1001,gid=1001 \
    /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom`

dmesg replies:
hfs_fs: unable to parse mount options.

And nothing happens.

/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.12/Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt 
tells me that hfs is *really* hfsplus and that it doesn't 
know about the `afpd` option.

The sourceforge project for the hfs+ module has a feature 
request for this very thing.  So hfs+ doesn't have this 
capability at the moment. 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=741128&group_id=20251&atid=370251

Then I noticed that netatalk2 currently supports different 
resource fork formats by way of the `adouble:` option in 
`AppleVolumes.default`.  But that didn't seem to do the 
trick either.  Regardless of which adouble version (v1 v2 or 
osx for that matter) when the share is mounted on the client 
I see... garbage; no resource forks and no meta data.  i.e. 
hidden files are visible, such as `Desktop Folder`.

So, what is the easiest way to make this work?  A vanilla 
hfs for the 2.6 kernel?  Was the original hfs module truly 
removed?  Why?  Or have I made some mistake?

I have other netatalk shares that work fine with my OS8, 
OS9, & OSX clients.

-Sam George