Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 22:29:48 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd4.7 and Samba and OS X Message-ID: <3E45CB2C.5080706@potentialtech.com> References: <33193.24.237.6.229.1044576540.squirrel@www.destar.net> <20030208123745.GB287@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> <3E452210.3040102@potentialtech.com> <200302081853.11954.dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
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David Kelly wrote: > On Saturday 08 February 2003 09:28 am, Bill Moran wrote: > >>>Maybe the Apple system has not got the necessary permissions to >>>create this extra file. This could be way off the mark though :). >> >>I just thought of this ... >>Samba has the option to "hide dot files" which would prevent the >>Apples from ever seeing the .appledouble (as I remember) files at >>all. > > Yeah But... The .AppleDouble directories were created by NetAtalk. They > were not the creation of clients which had connected to the share. > > But you may be on to something as MacOS X does like to create a dot > file/directory on shared resources, its just not called .AppleDouble. > More like .sD2 IIRC. Well, I could be wrong about, ".AppleDouble" specifically, but the whole theory that dotfiles could be disappearing into a Samba black hole is what I was trying to put across. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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