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NTFS
Authored by: balthisar on Oct 17, '02 06:25:31AM

I\\\'ll just throw in my $0.02 -- I\\\'ve had no problems with SMB since I removed NTFS from my WinXP computer. NTFS causes a LOT of problems with the Windows-side of Windows file-sharing, not limited to only SMB. I\\\'ve never had a problem with the Mac sharing to the Windows box, though.

On the XP box I\\\'d tried everything to get some time of share to mount. From Windows\\\' shares to installing and configuring PCMacLan, NOTHING would work. I just couldn\\\'t connect to the darn XP box with ANY type of user name and password. Didn\\\'t work. Nada. Zilch. Nothing.

Finally I remembered something I\\\'d heard (but didn\\\'t believe) on \\\"The Screensavers\\\" -- that NTFS is nice but causes problems with file sharing. I did a clean install on the XP box with FAT32, and it worked right away flawlessy. I don\\\'t even have to worry about scandisk too much anymore (NTFS doesn\\\'t need it -- it\\\'s semi-journaled), since XP only crashes on me a few times a month. (As a side note, the Windows remote client is pretty cool, too -- it\\\'s like Virtual PC at fullish PC speed).

I\\\'m pretty sure there are instructions for setting up WebDAV on Mac OS X right here at www.macosxhints.com. There was a lot of interest in it when iTools became .Mac.

FTP isn\\\'t a very good solution, for most of the reasons everyone else already stated.



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