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...completely. Here's the situation. We have a handful of Mac machines, all recently taken to 10.3.7 (10.3.8 upgrade is pending) which currently connect to our windows file server over AFP, which requires Win2K services for Mac in order to operate. This has worked fairly well in that the 'rfork' files (._filename.ext) are not required in order to maintain filetype data. As I understand it - OS X when connecting with AFP assumes that it is writing to an HFS/HFS+ share, and expects the file system to handle rforks, a job that is badly taken over by win2k services for Mac. When connect...

Hoping someone can give me a pointer on this: I'm trying to connect a Mac OS X 10.2.6 machine to Samba 2.2.8 hosted on a Linux 2.2.20 machine. I can authenticate, connect to a share, navigate through. I can even delete and move files. But, whenever I try to save a file in most programs, or copy a file in the Finder, I'm told that I don't have the privileges to do it. Strangely

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