[Samba] Netatalk and Samba???

[Philip Edelbrock]

Take a look at Baltra:

http://www.baltra.org/

The idea behind Baltra is to patch up Netatalk so that it accesses and 
stores files on the server in the standard Apple OS-X way instead of the 
funky old Netatalk method (e.g. .AppleDouble directories).  Baltra 
doesn't change the way Netatalk talks to clients, it just tweaks some 
details on how the files are saved on the server (such as UTF-8 names, 
AppleDouble v2 files with only FinderInfo and ResourceFork sections, ._ 
files instead of .AppleDouble directories, etc.).

That way, you can access the files from an OS-X Mac via NFS, SMB, direct 
access, etc. while still keeping the entire file (including resource 
forks) intact.  It also  prevents having stale resource forks or 
multiple resource forks for a file littering the server and causing 
possible corruption or other errors.

Lastly, this allows you to migrate away from Netatalk and to a single 
standard (e.g. SMB) as you reduce the number of OS-9 Macs on your network.

Good luck!


Phil

Kevan Carbaugh wrote:

>Hi all,
> 
>Looking for a "best practices" way to share out to both Mac and PC easily.
>I know Windoze enables the same sharepoint for both the mac and pc shares
>and there don't seem to be any real "problems" by doing that.  However I
>work in an environment which forces us to utilize Win9x through XP as well
>as OS 9 through 10.x on the mac side.  I need a user friendly way to use AFP
>over IP as well as SMB for the windows users.  Anyone done this in a
>production environment?  I will definitely be backing up this machine on a
>daily basis, just need to know if Samba and Netatalk will work together.
> 
>Thanks in advance for Ideas/Comments.
> 
>Kevan
>  
>