Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Samba/Unix File Management vs. Resource Forks?
From: Robert G Palmer Jr (palmerr@ipix.com)
Date: Fri Jul 16 1999 - 08:42:03 EDT
The interesting thing about this whole discussion is that
AFS on NT Server does nothing to handle the situation
of a PC moving a Mac file that has a resource fork.
I remember a couple of years ago, when we were using System 7
sounds for a bunch of content development, the creative guys
would come to me saying their sound files were suddenly of
size 0 bytes.
Turns out the Mac guys would put the files on the server,
then one of the creative types working on a PC would move
them to a different drive or just move them around and poof,
gone was the resource fork - THE important part of a System 7
sound file.
We pretty much trained the Mac side not to put anything with
a resource fork onto the NT server, except for a volume set
up exclusively for that purpose. And the PC people were prevented
from moving things found in that "Mac Only" folder.
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