samba - Jun 2002 - FW: Samba and Helios Ethershare resource fork information

> Hi there,
> 
> I am looking for some help with regards to how samba doesn't co-exist
well
> with Helios Ethershare. The main issue we are dealing with at this time is
> that Samba does not handle the .rsrc directory. IE: If you rename or
> delete a file using samba the resource information stored in the .rsrc
> directory is not updated. 
> 
> Is there a version of Samba available that resolves this issue?
> 
> David Bradshaw
> Creo | Performance Team - WFS
> (604) 451-2700 - 5505
>

David Bradshaw wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am looking for some help with regards to how samba doesn't
co-exist well
> > with Helios Ethershare. The main issue we are dealing with at this
time is
> > that Samba does not handle the .rsrc directory. IE: If you rename or
> > delete a file using samba the resource information stored in the .rsrc
> > directory is not updated.
> >
> > Is there a version of Samba available that resolves this issue?
A VFS module is the right way to deal with this.  One was posted to
samba-technial for Netatalk compatibility recently.  You probably don't
need somthing quite as full-featured (this one actually created new
resource forks for files) but doing moves/renames/deletes should not be
hard.

Andrew Bartlett

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