Re: mac resource fork and file sharing

In article <1160032797.548835.164430@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 <hook.steven@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>I have a bunch of fonts on a windows 2003 server that is shared for
>macs to access, all the macs have macosx so we just use smb to mount
>the directory because afp gives us lots of trouble.
>this morning all the fonts suddenly show as 0kb on the macs, so I read
>up a bit and find out about this data fork / resource fork thing, not
>too sure I understand it yet. how can I let the macs see their fonts on
>the smb drives?

Mac resource fork and finder info can be stored on MS-Windows file
systems in two different ways. The older AFP method used by Services
for Macintosh stored them in NTFS alternate data streams. Theres a
program called Dave that will do that too.

The newer (OS/X via SMB) method is to store them in a second file
named ._xxx where xxx is the filename you're referencing.

It sounds like you somehow lost the ._ files.

Those files have the 'hidden' attribute when looking at the directory
from an MS-Windows viewpoint. Did some MS-Windows user shuffle the
fonts around without realizing/understanding the tie-in?

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