On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 23:27 +0200, Ariën Huisken wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> Agree. Samba is NO option for Mac users.

Not the least of which is because Samba is a Windows solution, and SMB
is not a native filesystem on UNIX, so using it is a super-kludge.

Obviously, this won't solve the file-ids issue, but I'm requiring all
OSX users to join the NIS domain and mount file servers using NFS.  This
has worked pretty good so far.  They still create the .DS_Store
directories and whatnot, but this has mainly caused problems, for me in
our setup, with scripts that automatically process files on the shares,
having to exclude certain files.

Since we already have a complete network of diskless Linux clients, this
reduced the number of file server configurations that needed to be
maintained.  It was getting to be a real headache to maintain NFS and
Samba and Netatalk (which I discontinued support for on our network a
long while ago).

-- 
Andy Bakun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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