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Hi,
We are a mixing Mac and PC environment being an Art Institute. I have an NT4 BDC set up with the dreaded Services for Macintosh on a 100mbps network. Eveything runs swimmingly until a mac tries to copy anything fairly weighty from or to the server and then it bluescreens, curls up and dies.

Is this a secret conspiracy by the big MS to discourage the use of anything (Steve)Jobs related?! or is it something more mundane? Any ideas?



Matt ffolliott-Powell
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Hi,
Tried this a few days ago, but got no replies....

We are a mixing Mac and PC environment being an Art Institute. I have an NT4 BDC set up with the dreaded Services for Macintosh on a 100mbps network. Eveything runs swimmingly until a mac tries to copy anything fairly weighty from or to the server and then it bluescreens, curls up and dies.

Is this a secret conspiracy by the big MS to discourage the use of anything (Steve)Jobs related?! or is it something more mundane? Any ideas?



Matt ffolliott-Powell
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I had a similar problem some years back. I fixed it by allocating fixed ip addresses to the macs and installing a switch. We also found some discrepancies in the versions of ip that the macs were using and took the opportunity to audit the network and make sure every thing was at an identical software level. Just after I left the company they put in a G3 server which I hear made things run even better.
 
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When a Mac tries to copy files to NT, it takes 100% CPU on NT. Anything else that tries to run on NT kills it.

To get around this, run NT SP6 and use IP 2.6.2b1 on the Mac. This SHOULD cure your problem.
 
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