Re: OT: Mac and NT 4.0 File Share

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Try installing DAVE on the mac, that normally sorts all sort of sharing
problems with PC's

p.

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> I know we have some Mac'ers in here..
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> A small charity I try and help out have got themselves a Mac which I
have
> added to the network for them, their workgroup server is an NT4.0 box
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> bring them up to 2000/2003 at some stage).
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> I've implemented the MS way of allowing a Mac share but it doesn't
seem to
> be working very well. Here is what has happened on more than one
occasion
> now and it seems VERY screwy to my simple brain!
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> "Files just seem to disappear! ----- Look on the Mac and you
can't see the
> files in the share, look on the NT server and the files are there!
Copy
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> files out of the Mac share onto another folder on the server and then
copy
> them back to the Mac share and all appears again."
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> Ok, now I know this seems really silly and I don't get to actually
'visit'
> them very often but from chatting through with them on the phone and
> walking
> them through the above this appears to be real. I THINK (You know what
> users
> can be like!) this may have also recently happened on a PC to Server
> scenario too?
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> So two questions:
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> 1)       Are they (or me!) loosing it! Could this be a hard drive
issue? I
> seem to remember a problem with disappearing files on certain Seagate
> drives
> a few years ago.
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> 2)       Is their any nice free(ish) software to help manage the Mac
to PC
> file share relationship? As they get very confused at the moment.
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> Many thanks,
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> Rob
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