From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 19 02:26:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8EF916A41F for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:26:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lcapps@cteresource.org) Received: from cteresource.org (mail.cteresource.org [206.136.187.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB76243D49 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:26:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lcapps@cteresource.org) Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cteresource.org (8.11.7+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id j9J2QTQ27295 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:26:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 192.168.1.129 ([192.168.1.129] helo=localhost) by ASSP-nospam ; 19 Oct 05 02:26:29 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:29:34 -0400 From: Lee Capps To: questions questions Message-ID: <20051019022934.GA79010@topper.cteresource.org> Mail-Followup-To: questions questions References: <4D7DB329-249E-4FC2-8E27-FDD1D582DB4C@shire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D7DB329-249E-4FC2-8E27-FDD1D582DB4C@shire.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:26:32 -0000 At 16:30 Tue 18 Oct 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Oct 18, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > >Ah, then when the user 'cleans up' all those dot files from her > >Windows > >box that happens to be mounting the same volume exported via Samba, > >they become unusable! ;-) > > Not usually. meta data in resource forks is supposed to be non > essential data (window positions, etc). If they are using the stuff > cross platform they probably won't have resource forks in the first > place or can survive without them. > > In practice it is not a problem for most people. And on OS X most > apps do not create resource forked files anyway > Okay, this is getting pretty OT, but just let me say--don't lose the resource fork to a Mac Quicken file. I don't know what's in there, but it's more than the window positions and the color of the file. But you're right--most of the time it is no longer an issue. We just happen to have tons of legacy Mac files. Lee -- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center