juan.hernandez
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Hi there...
As you can see, this is my first post to this list. Well, here's my problem: I'm a long time linux engineer and Unix supporter and I recently got a contract to migrate about 40 g4 to MacOS X from MacOS 9 and also to develop a solution in which they would have file serving and firewall/proxy services for those workstations. For the server I chose linux using Iptables/Squid and Netatalk and since there would be some Win clients, I also installed Samba in that Linux server. I have /home/user for each user and a /home/public where all users have 770 access (group access) thru netatalk. Since this is a huge design company, I configured a raid for them.
My problem starts when the users started copying data to the file server using panther thru appletalk, somehow the files get changed and the data is all screwed up. This only happens on X because Netaltalk worked perfectly with MacOS 9 -because I backed up all the data in the file server to be able to upgrade from 9 to panther-. I found that the first problem was that the designers used "/" for names and it confuses linux from panther but, MacOS 9 changes "/" for ":" which work perfectly for any UNIX system. After this, I still have this problem, all the names and files properties get all screwed. I also changed from AppleTalk to SMB or NFS and the problem persists. I'd say it's MacOS related because I have made lots of tests with other operationg systems (9.2.2, Windows and Linux) and all three protocols worked perfectly.
Has Anybody seen anything similar?? any solutions? I need to give them a reliable file serving solution and somehow panther is not working for them.
Thanx a lot
Juan
As you can see, this is my first post to this list. Well, here's my problem: I'm a long time linux engineer and Unix supporter and I recently got a contract to migrate about 40 g4 to MacOS X from MacOS 9 and also to develop a solution in which they would have file serving and firewall/proxy services for those workstations. For the server I chose linux using Iptables/Squid and Netatalk and since there would be some Win clients, I also installed Samba in that Linux server. I have /home/user for each user and a /home/public where all users have 770 access (group access) thru netatalk. Since this is a huge design company, I configured a raid for them.
My problem starts when the users started copying data to the file server using panther thru appletalk, somehow the files get changed and the data is all screwed up. This only happens on X because Netaltalk worked perfectly with MacOS 9 -because I backed up all the data in the file server to be able to upgrade from 9 to panther-. I found that the first problem was that the designers used "/" for names and it confuses linux from panther but, MacOS 9 changes "/" for ":" which work perfectly for any UNIX system. After this, I still have this problem, all the names and files properties get all screwed. I also changed from AppleTalk to SMB or NFS and the problem persists. I'd say it's MacOS related because I have made lots of tests with other operationg systems (9.2.2, Windows and Linux) and all three protocols worked perfectly.
Has Anybody seen anything similar?? any solutions? I need to give them a reliable file serving solution and somehow panther is not working for them.
Thanx a lot
Juan