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hmm, this doesn't really do it
Authored by: filburt1 on Oct 16, '02 11:38:47AM

True, but working with files open over the network isn't necessarily a good idea, especially for speed purposes. The idea here is just for transfers; if you want to edit a document, you can FTP it to your Windows machine, edit the local copy, then FTP it back.

I was using it for stuff to burn on my PC because I don't have a burner in my iBook, and Samba wouldn't work for big files.



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hmm, this doesn't really do it
Authored by: Jay D on Oct 17, '02 02:03:35AM
working with files open over the network isn't necessarily a good idea


Why not? I use AFP between my Macs, and keep a single home directory. Works fine for me (Even opening big Photoshop crap on a mounted AFP volume). If I wasn't going between Macs, I'd use NFS, which many people do for mounting huge volumes. Or, if I was very ambitous, AFS. I agree that FTP/HTTP are fine for your one-way situation (as long as you're not going over an open network, of course), but I still don't think they're a reasonable way to work in a read/write sense on remote files. The copying back and forth seems overly complex when the machines are networked anyway.

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