ok, why AppleDB, just a short overview: as you know Apple File Sharing can reference by file NUMBER or filename. XPress, as oldskool problem links all files into xpress documents by id number. so if you don't have AppleDB, you might have xpress confused after cleaning up.
I do have a configure solution that could make it into a contributed netatalk2.0 rpm. netatalk lets you choose between three different solutions to the file id problem. having a cnid database accessed by every afpd, having a centralized cnid daemon, or calculating file ids on the fly from device inodes, which is baad, if you are planning on changing partition layouts on your server. The last might be broken by now, b/c it doesn't seem to be maintained anymore. I recommend having an extra daemon accessing the database, and if you are interested I try to make my first steps into a rpm. best m ps: i do know a lot of people running linux servers for os9 clients for exactly that purpose: quark's xpress which is technologically dumb (don't sue me, it is broken by design when it comes to networked collaboration), and the new version is even more expensive, and also d.um.b. pps: and samba isn't an option when it comes to l.users on macintoshs (writing this on a powerbook), .DS_Store and other things makes folder management a mess, having .AppleDouble isn't either, but at least you could put .AppleDB on seperate harddisks, AND having clients able to clean up their own mess is great on the server. and yes, there are clients having slashes in their filenames. On 14.06.2005, at 17:15, Ari�n Huisken wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 14 '05 at 15:29, Ari?n Huisken wrote: >> >>> On serveral servers I have netatalk running for the Macintosh >>> clients. >>> There is a problem that occurs from time to time, when the users >>> suddenly have an empty network share, no files or dirs in it. On >>> busy >>> servers it occurs every week, on other servers approx. every month. >>> >> >> Stop using appletalk :-). You should have only Macs with OS X by >> now and >> they work perfectly with samba. >> > > I don't agree, > > All my customers have several Mac's with classic OS (mostly 9), > because of the > Quark Xpress software there running, so it's always a mixed > enviroment. Only > Appletalk can do this. > > In the case everyone runs OSX, you still have the problem of the > old shares > resource information. With samba, you lose the resource files of those > "old" appletalk shares. > > Even Macintosh own OSX servers are still running appletalk for this > reason, so > it's a must for now. > > -- > Ari�n Huisken > Xilay Software > > > _______________________________________________ > tsl-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss > _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
