Subject: Re: Sharing CD-ROM's and Floppy's via NetaTalk
From: Bill Moran (wmoran@mail.iowna.com)
Date: Sun Feb 04 2001 - 23:07:40 EST
Carsten Neumann wrote:
>
> On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, Philip B. Bechtel wrote:
> > Stefan,
> >
> > I used Supermount to allow the CDs to be mounted. It worked ok for
> > most files, but never was satisfactory for Mac executables.
> > The reason was that the date/time information that Linux offered to the
> > Mac clients, was almost always out-of-order, and the software
> > would refuse to work.
> >
> > Good Luck, and let me know if it works. It was a long time ago, that I
> > used netatalk to serve CDs to Macs, I hope the date/time
> > information has been corrected, kernel 1.3.
> >
> > Phil
>
> I think the bigger problem is that your resource fork and finder info will get dropped.
> Afpd uses the .AppleDouble dir to store these things, i.e. one extra file per mac file.
> An HFS volume (or ISO9660 w/HFS extension) stores these in two separate directories .finderinfo and
> .resource, i.e. two extra files per mac file.
> They aren't seen by afpd.
> So you only have access to the data fork, which is sometimes not enough. ;-)
> Or is there an option to mount HFS volumes that they can properly be used via afpd?
> Or an option for afpd?
There is a suite of HFS tools for FreeBSD that allow mounting of HFS
volumes (including CD-ROMs, etc) I'd assume that they're available under
Linux, but I don't know. I also don't know the extent of their
capability. It's something to look into, though.
-Bill
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