RE: [WinMac] connecting Macs to Unix servers

Subject: RE: [WinMac] connecting Macs to Unix servers
From: Wilcox, Curtis (cwilcox[at]esm.rochester.edu)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 18:25:53 EDT

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Johnson [mailto:johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu]
> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 5:24 PM
> To: winmac@iffy.com
> Subject: Re: [WinMac] connecting Macs to Unix servers
>
>
> 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.

I don't think that's quite accurate. Carbon apps can and often do still keep
their executable code in the resource fork. Only Cocoa apps do not use the
resource fork for executable code.

Apple *recommends* moving away from resource fork use in data files but many
applications continue to use them for backwards compatibility.

Also, resource forks can be retained when files are moved using Windows file
sharing if the destination drive is NTFS. I've moved Mac files between NT
servers and had them remain intact. I don't know if Samba is smart enough to
keep the resource fork intact.

You'll want to use something that retains resource fork data unless you know
you don't need the forks.

I'd like to recommend using OS X for the server but it's really hard to put
together hardware for a Mac which is comparable to the server-class hardware
available for UNIX and Windows operating systems. If you were going to use
desktop-class hardware anyway, seriously look at OS X.

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