Subject: Re: RE: Linux as fileserver
From: Olivier van Helden (magic@samarkande.net)
Date: Wed Aug 16 2000 - 16:28:25 MDT
I use a Linux file server in mixed environment, with both Appletalk
and Samba. Actually, your question is also valid in the other
direction: what about the files you save from a Mac (without dotted
extension) and you try to read from a pc? In any case, the files
saved in one environment wouldn't be recognized by the others without
a minimal amount of rules...
Apart of this, the Appletalk server (aka netatalk) works pretty fine,
and does respect the resource fork of MacOs files. I can put on the
server things like PhotoShop files, installers, applications without
problem.
More than this, netatalk also passes file/creator information, based
on the extensions when the file doesn't come from a MacOs station.
>What about Appletalk support, I guess you can't get it
>to save the resource forks, or is there some way
>around that?
>
>yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com writes:
>>Well, in my case I even use it comercially for
>>web/proxy/mail and database
>>servers, internally we use it as a mail (With Lotus
>>Domino) and file/print
>>(With Samba), and the results? We had 5 (Yes count
>>'em six!!!) NT servers to
>>do that and now we only have 2 Linux servers...
>>couldn't been happier (And
>>as a side note I have them administered via Webmin
>>because our SA is not
>>err... fluent with Linux but he's getting there)
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