[KLUG Members] Apple OSX Server

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 09:29 -0800, Rusty Yonkers wrote:
> Does a Linux server support Apple file namespace??  If they have Macs
> already then that can be a big issue!!  If you lose the resource fork
> in the name when it is saved then that gets to be a really big
> problem on a Mac.  They do not use extensions to determine filetypes
> like Windows boxes do.....

Both Samba and Netatalk can emulate these if the underlying filesystem
does not support them.  In many cases EA can be used in place of
resource forks.  This is a pretty common problem these days;  forks are
not just a Mac issue, NT has supported them for a long time and Windows
is starting to use them.  The important part is to make sure that your
backup procedure includes EA.