Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] one person's take on linux/netatalk
From: Geoff Ghose (geoff@focus.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 04 1999 - 13:33:26 EDT
Wagner One wrote:
> This is an excerpt from a discussion of possible server chioces from
> macintouch. These were some concerns regarding linux/netatalk of one
> participant.
>
> You can read the entire discussion at:
> http://www.macintouch.com/mxshighavail.html
>
> "Our other option was LINUX. This runs lightning fast on a 100mhz pentium
> with 48 megs of RAM. The system is brilliant. It backs itself up and has
> a free proxy server, so now all our machines share the same internet
> connection.
>
> files with illegal names (ie. 32 character or having illegal characters)
> just don't show up. This is a problem because when you copy whole folders
> you can miss files without even know it. 4) We've had lots of problems
I find this a problem also. I was wondering if there could be a afpd option
that "munges"
filenames to 32 characters so they at least appear in Finder. Mind you I'm
not sure
how decide which 32 characters to take; certainly it should include
everything after the
last dot (since this is the extension on most non-Mac systems).
Any thoughts?
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