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Mounting Windows Server 2003 & NT with 10.3
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on Jun 03, '04 01:12:57PM

If the server is for a Mac based shop, then of course it will have Macintosh services installed.

At work here, we have a W2K server box. We connect using AFP due to the fact that Mac files (such as fonts) will get damaged on the native Windows file system. Also, OS X doesn't seem to like to see Mac files on Windows formatted disks, and it shows the resource forks as separate files, just as it does on a PC, with no way to join them back up. We have to use a Mac running OS 9 for the times we get DOS formatted Zip disks with Mac files.

The one big problem with using AFP, is that MS has not updated Services for Macintosh to work with long file names... so certain files cannot be directly copied to the server, without renaming them first.

I tell all the users here to make sure they add .qxp or .qxd to their Quark documents for just this reason. It was a real oversite of Quark to not have the program save files with the extension.

Personally I'd rather use an OS X Server box. ;)



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Mounting Windows Server 2003 & NT with 10.3
Authored by: LittleSaint on Jun 03, '04 05:09:48PM

I would have to disagree with that first statement. We are a Macintosh heavy organization and we are eliminating SFM. It doesn't scale well and at high file loads, spikes the utlization on the server. SMB access is a godsend for any enterprise class organization with Macs. Plus you can join them to an Active Directory tree for single sign-on authentication.



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Mounting Windows Server 2003 & NT with 10.3
Authored by: ericdano on Jun 05, '04 01:18:20PM

Yeah, who wouldn't use OS X server, but without any RAID 5 solutions that are cheap, Windows or Linux is a way better solution. A 700Gig RAID 5 server can be set up for about $1K.



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