On Apr 27, 2005, at 4:51 AM, Clark, Amanda (Harcourt Ed) wrote:
Hi there
I'm having a fight with the PC tecs that support the PC Servers
that the
Macs have to store there files on.
They want us to connect using SMB rather than AFP
But with SMB the files all lose there associations and we get strange
gremlins creeping into the file and folder names so the links in
documents
no longer work.
This is OSX.3 and Win2K servers and we are connecting by going to
Apple +K and typing in smb://server/share
Any clues? - do we just have to live with this with SMB problem?
Has anyone come across it and found a solution?
The problem you are seeing is that you copied the files up via SFM
and when you view them with SMB they have no forks. This is because
SMF stuffs the fork away in a NTFS stream while the Finder separates
the fork out into a ._ file on non-fork aware volumes.
My order of preference for dealing with Windows servers is:
1. EZIP
2. SMB
3. Anything I can think of that's not SFM
4. SFM
Once you pick one way to connect you should stick with it. Otherwise
you get the fork and name length inconsistencies.
The only way to migrate really is to copy the data from the SFM share
to a SMB share via a Mac.
