Re: x86 file server

Thanks Ronnie!

All VERY useful information.  I should hopefully be able to figure out
where to go from here with the information you have given me.  :)


> On Dec 1, 2004, at 11:52 AM, Glen Gibson wrote:
>
>> We have a number of Mac computers that need to be able to share files
>> with
>> each other via a Fileserver.
>>
>> Using smb on a Windows Server 2003 platform doesn't always cut it
>> (this is
>> what has been implemented before I started) because of the lost
>> resource
>> fork problems associated with files created on Macs.
>
> Are your Mac clients running OS X or some earlier version of MacOS?
> MacOS X should support resource forks on SMB filesystems -- it stores
> the resource fork for "foo" as a file called "._foo". Is this not
> working for you?
>
>> If I install Darwin on an x86 server (it's all I have available to me)
>> and
>> partition/format it using the HFS+ filesystem, will this overcome the
>> problems with resource forks?
>
> Darwin doesn't include the AFP server, so you would have to share over
> either SMB (using samba), NFS, WebDAV, etc. These all use the same ._
> trick I mentioned above.
>
>> Also if the resource forks are preserved with HFS+ on this x86 server,
>> will SMB or NFS interfere with the resource forks at all?
>
> Clients using SMB and NFS use the same convention for storing resource
> forks, so you shouldn't have any interference. If you were to also
> serve the same files over AFP (on OS X, since Darwin doesn't have AFP),
> you would have problems, since AFP clients will expect forked files
> whereas SMB/NFS clients will use the ._ trick.
>
>> One other question:
>> If I use HFS+ on this x86 server, will the filesystem be journalled
>> like
>> it can be on the Mac or not?  Do I get the option of making it
>> journalled?
>
> You can't install Darwin-x86 on HFS+ as far as I know, but you can make
> other volumes HFS+, and you can use journalling.
>
> Ronnie
>
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