[Samba] Macintosh + Samba integration

[Andrew Bartlett]

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

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