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! ;-)
Ted >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lee Capps >Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 5:25 AM >To: questions questions >Subject: Re: Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder > > >At 03:30 Tue 18 Oct 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> Right, but a lot of Mac files still use that awful resource/data fork >> thing >> that some idiot at Apple dreamed up and that isn't supported under NFS >> that I'm aware. > >Oh, how I loathe those resource forks. I've been experimenting >with these resource forks a lot lately (why? a long, boring, and >pitiful tale), and I'm happy to report that the Mac actually >_does_ seem to preserve the resource forks over NFS. If I copy a >file called "file" with a resource fork over NFS to the file >server it also copies over a file called "._file" which seems to >contain all that nice metadata. > >Still, I don't trust it. > >Lee > >-- >Lee Capps >Technology Specialist >CTE Resource Center > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > >-- >Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.9/116 - Release Date: >9/30/2005 > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
