Laney
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I've got a situation where I need to spec a network which is predominatly Mac based with a small number of PC's. To me, it'd make sense to have an Apple-based server solution, but finding a company that can support it for me has proven difficult. Is this because Xserve etc is easy to use, or because its crap and no-one uses it?
Its for a design agency btw. Anyone got any experience with this?
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Cosmo
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Probably easier to have a Windows server and network the Macs to it than the other way round.
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Laney
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
Probably easier to have a Windows server and network the Macs to it than the other way round.
What makes you say that?
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Cosmo
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As have networked a Mac to Windows system, and the opposite way round, and the first one was easiest to do.
Maybe it was just me though.
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Laney
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
As have networked a Mac to Windows system, and the opposite way round, and the first one was easiest to do.
Maybe it was just me though.
Awesome  Was it a Windows XP Server out of interest?
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Ian
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Do bear in mind Samba will do NT domain duties, which I would imagine includes PDC/BDC. That might be an option for either hardware, either native on Mac or Linux on PC hardware.
Not familiar with the Mac approach but the PC one will get expensive I think if you use MS Server OS and need client licences.
[Edited on 16-01-2008 by Ian]
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James_DT
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I agree, a Windows server would be the better way of doing it. Connecting Windows to Mac is much more of a pain than the other way around.
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Laney
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So no-one has experienced using Xserve/Mac Servers?
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Rob_Quads
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XServe Server are generally expensive for what they are. Instead you may well by a HP/IBM server which normally will get you more bang for your back (but might be black and not 'pretty')
Personally for ease I would go with a Windows server which would work with windows and the macs
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James_DT
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Also, the XServe would run on an HFS filesystem and I'm not sure how that would interact with Windows clients. Obviously, they can't natively read it but I'm not sure if the server would translate between the two.
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Laney
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Thanks for the help everyone
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