Steve Campbell wrote:
I don't understand, though, how it could have been populated with Mac stuff unless it either had a Mac fs or something or the sorts. A Mac wrote the data, but I'm not sure what type of format the system had. I really don't have a clue about this or how to fix up the NAS if we ever get that far.
Having almost bought one of their products (ended up going with QNap instead), I'm almost certain from my research at the time that the Thecus NAS appliances run a linux-based OS and most likely use ext3 filesystem (as a previous poster mentioned).
When shared over the network (NFS, CIFS, etc.), the filesystem on the NAS or server doesn't actually matter. Macs can still mount the network share and read/write to it. It doesn't have to be HFS for this to happen.
In terms of the resource forks, I'd be surprised if this is even an issue. Can you clarify what problems/issues/symptoms you are seeing that makes you believe you need to "copy" the resource forks?
What kind of files are these? If they are regular documents (Office, Adobe, images, videos, etc.), you should have no problems just copying the files from the mounted drive to somewhere else (another Mac, a Windows box, or a Linux box).
If they are applications or some other binaries, there *might* be issues, but even then, I'm not convinced.
p.s. Unless you are still using pre-OS X Macs, in which case, all bets are off...
johnn