Re: Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder

From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC (chad_at_shire.net)
Date: 10/19/05

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To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>

    On Oct 18, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

    >
    > 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! ;-)

    Not usually. meta data in resource forks is supposed to be non
    essential data (window positions, etc). If they are using the stuff
    cross platform they probably won't have resource forks in the first
    place or can survive without them.

    In practice it is not a problem for most people. And on OS X most
    apps do not create resource forked files anyway

    Chad

    >
    > Ted
    >
    >
    >> -----Original Message-----
    >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On 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
    >>
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