Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

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! ;-)

Ted

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>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Lee Capps
>Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 5:25 AM
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>Subject: Re: Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder
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>At 03:30 Tue 18 Oct 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
>> Right, but a lot of Mac files still use that awful resource/data fork
>> thing
>> that some idiot at Apple dreamed up and that isn't supported under NFS
>> that I'm aware.
>
>Oh, how I loathe those resource forks.  I've been experimenting
>with these resource forks a lot lately (why? a long, boring, and
>pitiful tale), and I'm happy to report that the Mac actually
>_does_ seem to preserve the resource forks over NFS.  If I copy a
>file called "file" with a resource fork over NFS to the file
>server it also copies over a file called "._file" which seems to
>contain all that nice metadata.
>
>Still, I don't trust it.
>
>Lee
>
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