Subject: Re: Samba and Netatalk
From: Frank Joerdens (frank@joerdens.de)
Date: Wed Mar 07 2001 - 15:31:26 EST
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 03:57:00PM -0600, Daniel E. Lautenschleger wrote:
> Would anyone care to comment on experiences they've had sharing data out
> on a volume that was accessed by Netatalk and Samba? Any glitches? No
> problem, go ahead and do it, your nuts, dude..., etc...
>
> Thanks. I have a dream that I can take one of our NT file servers and
> replace it with a Linux/Samba/Netatalk box. What a fine realization that
> would be...
Make sure that you're running a version of netatalk that has working
codepage support (the current snapshots are broken in this regard, AFAIK)
if you want your users to use German umlauts and such in their
filenames. Then you need to configure both Samba and Netatalk to use the
same codepage. Current versions also have a mswindows options which
disallows the creation of filenames containing the characters
/\:*?"<>|
which the PC can't deal with (my PC actually crashes when trying to
access a file containing ':' that was created on the Mac).
I'm still looking for a version of Netatalk that has _both_ working
codepage support and a working mswindows option . . . which would really
resolve all the problems we've had.
The locking issue is another matter (see below in this thread).
Interestingly, we haven't come across a single incident of this being
a problem in about 6 months of running Netatalk/Samba in a Network with 10
Macs and 5 PCs.
Regards, Frank
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