[CentOS] Making a NAS/HFS server

Thu Jan 10 19:06:13 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Steve Campbell wrote:
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, these are pre OS X files. They probably are more messed 
> up than usual as they are 2003-2008 MultiAd Creator files. A lot of the 
> fonts, font info, graphic stuff were placed in the meta files, and 
> without those, they are useless without a lot of extra work to recreate 
> the set of files.
> 
> The reason I feel the resource files are needed is that I started 
> copying the files from the Thecus, and then rewrote them back to another 
> area on the Thecus. I then tried to "explore" or view them on the Mac 
> that originally wrote them with no success.
> 
> I have no need to use these original files other than to have them as a 
> backup source for the originals.
> 
> I think I'm hearing everyone say just to mount my Centos partition on a 
> Mac and copy them from the Thecus to the Centos partition.. Is that the 
> concensus here? If so what, then, is the best way to export the Centos 
> partition so that the Mac can access it?

If you are building a new file server box from scratch, you might want 
to look at SME server from http://www.contribs.org.  It is Centos-based 
and I think it still supports netatalk.

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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com