Mac Question

[Willy2782]

Ok
I totally new to the mac world ..but here's the issue I have a client who has a few mac runing mac os 10...he needs a file server due to the large amount of space on the graphics files the question is should I use a windows File Server (2000 or 2003) or if possible to use Linux if yes wich version...Thankz for the help

 

[jimoblak]

OSX employs Samba as one of the types of file sharing. Linux could do the same.

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Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?

 

[429v8]

My group is on a microsoft server and it is nothing but trouble. I swear microsoft went out of there way to cause problems for Apple users. I would use Linux, everyone I have talked to says use Linux, but no one bothered to ask me. Now I am screwed. I would go with Linux.

 

[Willy2782]

Thanks 429v8

I will go with Linux Red Hat 9 (or) Fedora Core.. Or Should I used Red Hat Enterprise

 

[Zelandakh]

429v8 shouldn't necessarily influence you. I've had lots of Apple users working fine to Windows servers for many years. No problems at all.

Walk in the park to configure and very stable.

 

[jimoblak]

Are we purposefully ignoring OSX Server?

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Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?

 

[Zelandakh]

good point, I have Apple OS X servers too. They work fine too.

 

[Foamcow]

I have an NT server and an Xserve running OSX Server.
While the Xserve is much nicer than the NT server there are no real problems connecting the macs to the NT server.

Though I am a fan of Linux over Windows, I have in the past used a Linux based server in a Mac environment and found that some files (particularly Quark Xpress documents) got irreparibly damaged.
If I remember correctly the linux server was splitting the files into 2 parts. Something to do with resource forks I think. In the end I switched it over to running NT4 and never had another problem with it.

 

[Willy2782]

(After Installing Windows 2003 Server)


I'm installin a File server for a few mac as apple talk. The issue is as follow the mac computers see the share server and all that, they can also connect to the share folder but when they try to write shows the follow erros

Yo cannot copy "filename" onto this sharedisk "sharename",becausethe disk is looked.

the user that I'm using has full rights to that share folder any ideas what can i do..thanks