Re: [WinMac] connecting Macs to Unix servers
Subject: Re: [WinMac] connecting Macs to Unix servers
From: Bruce Johnson (johnson[at]pharmacy.arizona.edu)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 17:24:09 EDT
Tom Roth wrote:
>> As I said before, if you're using OSX, then you can just use NFS.
>>
>
> I saw on Apple's website that OS X support Samba and NFS but are
> those GUI like a mounted AFP volume or local hard drive? Do they
> keep the Apple resource fork?
Well, yes and no ;-) No it doesn't keep the Resource fork, but then
again, OSX doesn't HAVE resource forks, just .pkg files, which are
specialized folders.
So it really depends on what your clients are. Stuff running in Classic,
yeah, you have to worry about resource forks (Which netatalk handles
just fine), native OSX, no.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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