well.. i decided to go with freebsd on my pc… as the os to help facilitate the backing up of my powerbook… damn i never realized how slow 810 kb/s really is when you are dealing with gigs of shit!! to get around the problem i was having with the special characters that macs HFS+ allows… i simply used smbclient on the freebsd machine and did some mgets from the powerbook… samba automatically replaced the ?’s and the /’s with _’s…..
btw jim lahey is a drunk bastard.