Re: Mac disk images and ftp

• Subject: Re: Mac disk images and ftp
• From: "Michael G. Schabert" <email@hidden>
• Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:27:15 -0400

I'd like to make Macintosh disk images easily available to clients on my intranet via FTP using my OS X Server.

I make these using Disk Copy on OS 9 and the files get a .img extension by default.

As it is now, it seems like some Macs on my network can download the disk images via ftp ok and then mount them, but most have problems.

What I do now to ensure the download process is to "stuff" the images and turn them into .sit files, and this works consistently well, but the stuff and unstuffing process takes a lot of time on both ends and doesn't really save that much space in my experience.

What is the recommended setting for me to use on my OS X Server so that the ftp server handles ".img" files as well as possible? I'm *not* wanting the clients to mount the .img files remotely, just download them via ftp.

The client Macs are using ftp clients like Anarchie and Fetch to download the ftp files, and also are using Netscape and IE to download them - how should the ftp client software be set so users can consistently download usable .img files?

And does all of this apply to .dmg files as well?

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