On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 05:01 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > Raymond Norton wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 15:52 -0800, Sam Peterson wrote: > > > >>Appletalk is Apple's old home networking protocol. It's not used very > >>much anymore. > >> > >>On 3/1/06, Chris Norman <cnorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >>>What is appletalk and netatalk? What do they do? > > > > > > > > Netatalk is used to set up a Linux box to appear as an Apple file and > > print server. In my case we needed a way to copy data from OS 9 servers > > to a Linux box, which is backed up nightly using Bacula. > > > Does it handle resource forks properly? We'd like to do that, but I've > not yet identified how to test it. ---- netatalk? yes, it has a fully functional method of handling resource forks using berkeley db. I have retired all the old Macintosh file servers that my customers used previously. Craig
