SUMMARY: Re: Quick multi-platform question

From: Adam and Christine Levin <levins_at_westnet.com>
Date: Fri Dec 07 2001 - 09:32:00 EST
Original question at bottom.

Thanks to:
Thien Vu <thien@ucdata.Berkeley.EDU>
Jerry Kemp - Sun account <sun@sun.twlight.net>
William Enestvedt <Will.Enestvedt@jwu.edu>
William Yodlowsky <wyodlows@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
Brian Sherwood <bsherwood@carescience.com>
Jim Southerd <jsoutherd@bakersfield.com>
Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
Gavin McDonald <Gavin.McDonald@telus.com>
todd.a.fiedler@mail.sprint.com
Mark Lin <sv650@macysadv.com>
Tim Chipman <chipman@ecopiabio.com>
Jay Lessert <jayl@accelerant.net>
"Sreedharan, Anil" <anils@celera.com>
Steve Sandau <ssandau@bath.tmac.com>
"Stafford, Kevin" <Kevin.Stafford@BellSouth.com>
Thomas Jones <ThomasJo@iis.com>
"Heilke, Rainer" <Rainer.Heilke@atcoitek.com>

And to any others whose responses will filter in after I send this
summary.

Many people suggested Netatalk, a bunch suggested CAP, and there were a
few other products mentioned (all URLs are listed below).

This is not OS X, so I can't just use NFS, and I don't believe upgrading
is an option because Protools doesn't run on OS X.

A few people mentioned Stuffit/Binhex.  Unfortunately, it isn't quite that
easy, because there are 17GB of files scattered around a dozen or so
directories -- it's a mess of a filesystem, and apparently, from what I'm
told, stuffit has a 2GB file limit, which makes it a pain to deal with.

I'm going to try CAP and Netatalk today.

URLs:
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/appletalk/cap.html
http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/
http://www.macwindows.com/Network.html
http://www.bresink.de/osx/
http://www.thursby.com/
http://www.iptech.com/
http://www.xinet.com/

-Adam

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Adam and Christine Levin wrote:
> We've got a Mac G4 here that is used for Protools, an audio processing
> program.  We need to get the audio files from this program onto our Sun
> E450 for backups.
>
> Does anyone know of a way for the Mac to write properly to Unix file
> systems, or for Solaris to read Mac filesystems, or somehow (like Samba)
> allowing the Mac to write to the Unix machine without losing the
> data/resource fork file information?  The problem is that the Protools
> files are not cross-platform -- they're strictly Mac, and if the resource
> fork info isn't saved (which it isn't when "fetch" FTPs the files to the
> unix machine), then the files are useless to the Mac.
>
> Ugh.
>
> Thanks,
> -Adam
>
>
>
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