Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] netatalk, samba, ...
From: Palle Girgensohn (girgen@partitur.se)
Date: Thu Mar 11 1999 - 19:10:19 EST
Hi!
Get samba >=2.0 and run configure with --with-netatalk (on FreeBSD,
edit the port's Makefile and add one more row of CONFIGURE_ARGS), and
you won't have the first problem. With this configure switch, samba
deletes any .AppleDouble resource fork file together with the data fork
file if there is one. Ain't life sweet! :-)
Filelocking... I'm not sure. There are probably some interoperability
problems. Actually, I think that netatalk and samba both have their own
locking systems, but I may be wrong here.
/Palle
Netatalk Admin wrote:
>
> I am not sure if the first example is a problem. I created a BBEdit
> document on the unix system (freebsd3) and unmounted the server.
>
> Then I went to the unix machine locally and deleted the file, leaving the
> appledouble files alone. So this would simulate the same problem as
> samba.
>
> Then I went back to the mac to see if it was a problem. The file did not
> even appear. This is how it should work. I had no problem.
>
> On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Eddie Irvine wrote:
>
> > > i'm just planning a heterogenous network with mac win and unix machines
> > > (all in all about 30 computers). to easen backup tasks and lower the costs
> > > i think about a central fileserver. linux with samba and netatalk should
> > > do that, but as i heard there ar some problems with this solution ??
> >
> > There are two problems, as I understand it:
> >
> > 1) Fred saves a file from his Mac. He then goes to and IBM and deletes
> > it.
> > He then goes back to his mac, and can *see* the icon for that file,
> > but
> > when he tries to open it, he gets a "file not found" error. But, he
> > can't
> > get rid of the icon, either.
> >
> > 2) Fred on a Mac and Mary on a PC have the same filemaker database open.
> > In this situation, I don't think record locking works that well.
> >
> > If you don't plan to do a lot of database work between apps, and you can
> > educate users to delete files made by a mac, with a mac, then I think it
> > works fine.
> >
> > I have a Mac/Win 95 environment about three times the size and mostly it
> > seems
> > OK, and a lot more stable that MacIP 6. I use FreeBSD 3.1 but Linux
> > should be
> > OK too (well, almost!).
> >
> >
> > Eddie.
> >
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