Netatalk on Fedora 4

[John Summerfied]

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 at rnibncw.ac.uk> 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.



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