Re: AFP server with OpenBSD for Mac OS X file sharing

From: Nathan Mates (nathan_at_visi.com)
Date: 09/19/03 

Date: 18 Sep 2003 22:15:24 GMT

In article <3F6A2689.5B832B90@NOSPAM_hotmail.com>,
synuw <syn_uw@NOSPAM_hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Using samba is a really easy, fool-proof solution and works like a charm
>> with a OpenBSD samba server and a OSX-client. Smb support is built in on
>> OSX. Alternative is using WebDav to emulate iDisk, so that you can use
>> 'Backup' as well. For this to set up turn to this page:
>> http://www.drijf.net/dototto/index.html

>Thanks for your comment but we already tryed Samba and the problem is that
>Samba doesn't let you write files or directory names with special characters
>which are allowed on Mac Platform but not on Windows, these are for example:
>\ / : * ? < > |

   The Mac must be faking it, then, because "/" (forward slash) is the
(one true) directory separator used by Unix. MacOS X is based on a
FreeBSD kernel, and the pure versions of FreeBSD all use "/". ":" is
the old MacOS (1-9) way of separating directories, and wasn't usable
back then.

   Maybe the Mac is trying to idiot-proof things by transparently
swapping the characters above for ones that look the same but aren't
really the same. But, that leads to the question: why the heck must
you use those characters? "Just because" is rarely a good idea.

Nathan Mates 

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