Issue with NFS access between Windows and Macintosh

Recently we got a case where customer was sharing files through NFS between Windows and Macintosh. He came up with an issue that he was getting duplicate files with some special characters.

With research we found that, some Macintosh applications use alternate data stream for purposes like file association and NFS protocol doesn’t work well such data streams. When a file, that has an alternate data stream associated with it, is transferred using NFS to a Windows/UNIX NFS server, the streams will split and you would see some additional files created on the server. While the data will be preserved in the main stream, the addition information that was stored using alternate data streams will not be usable any more.

For example: If you copy the file (b.txt) into the NFS shared directory, (b.txt), (b.txt:$ntfs), (b.txt:$ntfs:$DATA) may be created