Hi, Am Sonntag, den 11.12.2005, 21:59 -0500 schrieb mw: > I'm considering using Debian and netatalk for our macintosh hard drive > backup of files. This would be instead of windows2000 with services for > macintosh.We have had some problem with resource forks getting messed up > copying files from windows 2003 server (using Xinet) to windows 2000 > server with SFM. > Two questions in particular: > 1. Will netatalk treat resource fork better? > 2. Is it troublefree from an admin stance? > The backup server we are likely to use will be 8x500gig disks on raid5 > with a 3ware card. I use it for years on Suse and Debian. There does not pass a week without this software causing trouble. Files are suddenly hidden until the volume is re-mounted. Macintosh application complaining about "Error 35". We use this not as our regular fileserver, that's a Mac OS X 10 Server. But we develope websites on a Debian server, so we like to serve apache a folder that is mounted via netatalk. Since in web developement there are normally no macintosh ressource forks involved we can just purge the file-database on the server when trouble occurs - but I don't want even think about what happened when this were the volume for our designers with all their fonts and other files with ressource forks. Unfortunately MacCVSpro does not work with SMB volumes, otherwise we had kicked netatalk a long time ago. BTW: Do not use the debian packages. Due license problems wit OpenSSL all "real" login methods are disabled and you stick with plaintext passwords. Bye, Ratti -- -o) fontlinge | Fontmanagement for Linux | Schriftenverwaltung in Linux /\\ http://freshmeat.net/projects/fontlinge/ _\_V http://www.gesindel.de https://sourceforge.net/projects/fontlinge/
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