Subject: Re: Sharing CD-ROM's and Floppy's via NetaTalk
From: Philip B. Bechtel (pbechtel@concentric.net)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 00:16:44 EST
The hfs module was available back when I tried it. It certainly did provide the forked files that
were on the Mac CDs. I believe I
copied executables from a Mac CD on a Mac to a Netatalk share and it would then be executable if the
software didn't check the
date/time for some kind of weak copy protection. Some programs worked fine, others didn't. It was a
few years back, so trying it again,
by copying a complete executable from the Mac to a netatalk share, testing execution, then mount the
CD with HFS module loaded, and try execution again to see any difference, would be useful.
Phil
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?
>
> >
> > Stefan Srdic wrote:
> >
> > > I've recently configured an old Pentium to serve as a Apple file server
> > > on a simple peer-peer network. I have been requested by my client to
> > > configure the Linux box so that he would be able to mount floppies and
> > > CD-ROM drives over the network. How do you accomplish this?
> > >
> > > So far, the user is able to log into the Linux box and mount his home
> > > diretory over the network. How do I give permissions to this user and
> > > configure NetaTalk so that he can mount floppies and CD-ROM's?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Stef
>
> Regards
>
> Carsten
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