I have been searching through the docs and on the web to no avail. I work at a university and we are moving our fileservers to new hardware. The problem is, nothing seems to integrate Mac's and Win box's happily. We have a large user base using samba already, but when mac's pick up the same share via CAP, CAP creates files to deal with the dual 'stream' nature of files from a macintosh. Samba doesnt synchronise those files understandably, but it throws the macintosh's horribly out of synch with the filesystem. They cant see some files, they cant delete or edit others. I've noticed netatalk uses seperate files as well to keep track of all the extra information as well, but I cannot find any mention in samba of synchronising netatalk state files either. Getting rid of the mac's is not an option as we have large workgroups with mixed workstations and everyone is very happy with their platform choice. Is there any solution to this so that Macintosh and Windows can happily use a unix fileserver and the same share? Regards, DaveN
-----[ dave@une.edu.au wrote on 5/22/2002 9:46 AM +1000 ]----- --> Is there any solution to this so that Macintosh and Windows can happily --> use a unix fileserver and the same share? Here we use Dave (Thursby Software) on the Macs. This makes them speak MS networking and they are quite happy to access our NT and samba servers. Still some issues with them wanting to create "Mac centric" files all over the server shares, but they can see and use the same files/shares as the PC people. Note: Dave is not free. We are fortunate to have a site licensed version. --Ben-- ---------------------------- Ben Griffith bgriffit@email.unc.edu ----------------------------
On Wed, 22 May 2002, David Nillesen wrote:> I have been searching through the docs and on the web to no avail. > > I work at a university and we are moving our fileservers to new > hardware. > > The problem is, nothing seems to integrate Mac's and Win box's happily. > We have a large user base using samba already, but when mac's pick up > the same share via CAP, CAP creates files to deal with the dual 'stream' > nature of files from a macintosh. > > Samba doesnt synchronise those files understandably, but it throws the > macintosh's horribly out of synch with the filesystem. They cant see > some files, they cant delete or edit others. > > I've noticed netatalk uses seperate files as well to keep track of all > the extra information as well, but I cannot find any mention in samba of > synchronising netatalk state files either.Older versions of samba had a --with-netatalk configure option for this kind of thing. The functionality was lost with the move to a VFS layer, but a module was recently written by 'cat' (from sam-solutions, I don't have his e-mail handy). I suggest you search the samba-technical archives and try out the module. (If you report success, I'll look to land it in the 'examples' dir in HEAD dosesn't get lost). Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett abartlet@pcug.org.au Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team abartlet@samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet@hawkerc.net http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net