I am not sure if the first example is a problem. I created a BBEdit
document on the unix system (freebsd3) and unmounted the server.
Then I went to the unix machine locally and deleted the file, leaving the
appledouble files alone. So this would simulate the same problem as
samba.
Then I went back to the mac to see if it was a problem. The file did not
even appear. This is how it should work. I had no problem.
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Eddie Irvine wrote:
> > i'm just planning a heterogenous network with mac win and unix machines
> > (all in all about 30 computers). to easen backup tasks and lower the costs
> > i think about a central fileserver. linux with samba and netatalk should
> > do that, but as i heard there ar some problems with this solution ??
>
> There are two problems, as I understand it:
>
> 1) Fred saves a file from his Mac. He then goes to and IBM and deletes
> it.
> He then goes back to his mac, and can *see* the icon for that file,
> but
> when he tries to open it, he gets a "file not found" error. But, he
> can't
> get rid of the icon, either.
>
> 2) Fred on a Mac and Mary on a PC have the same filemaker database open.
> In this situation, I don't think record locking works that well.
>
> If you don't plan to do a lot of database work between apps, and you can
> educate users to delete files made by a mac, with a mac, then I think it
> works fine.
>
> I have a Mac/Win 95 environment about three times the size and mostly it
> seems
> OK, and a lot more stable that MacIP 6. I use FreeBSD 3.1 but Linux
> should be
> OK too (well, almost!).
>
>
> Eddie.
>
