[Samba] Re: Problems with Mac files - Any resolution?

[Mark Nehemiah]

Hi Ashley,

    I don't think I have an answer for you, but I had a similar
experience.  We had a 2000 server set up that was sharing files to
macs.  I decided to rsync back it up to a more normal
environment(*nix).  I had all kinds of problems.  I tried mounting the
share via smb as you are trying.  I tried cygwin/rsync on the 2000
machine, still had problems, though I think they were fewer, and it
seems now that rsync was changing versions fast under cygwin at the
time(may work good now?).   I think a lot of the problems had to do
with naming conventions and resource forks.   I just pitched the 2000
server in the bucket and let the mac users use the Samba share from
*nix if they were OSX, and earlier OS's use netatalk.   Works like a
charm.  The mac users had to rename some files :) some of thier files
were named really nasty  ie. ( Carrrot Slicing photos/jaja's food
plant/Feb. 3/2001.ext )  Do you have cygwin on the server?  I would
probably try it and see if it can read the files.  If you are
intending on using rsync, should be much cleaner/faster if it is
running on both ends.

--Mark..

On Fri, August 13, 2004 12:17 pm, Ashley M. Kirchner said:
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>     I haven't seen any solution to my original problem:
>     http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-August/036644.html
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>     David?  Samba-Tech Team?  Bueller?
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