On Jan 28, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Steve R wrote:
> I have a Ximeta 320GB drive that I'm using right now as NAS. Have you > downloaded the most recent NAS Utility 1.8.1/Leopard for it? It used > to be, when I first got it, that it has to be formatted FAT-32 for > NAS and it would only mount on one Mac at a time (and could be > mounted on Windows while mounted on the one Mac) but this most recent > Utility allows it to be formatted Mac, and mounted on more than one > Mac at a time. I just got a VOX NM1 enclosure only, from Geeks.com for $24, another $70 for a 500G drive and I had a NAS system up and running pretty quickly. <http://www.voxproducts.com/mn1.php> Geeks doesn't seem to have it anymore. It's strictly a SMB file server, but I've been able to connect multiple macs to it simultaneously. Documentation is full of the usual Chinese-to-English through the 'Fish stragenesses, but they give equal weight to both Macs and PC's, wonder of wonders. It doesn't always show up in the network browser, for some reason, not sure where the problem lies, but since I gave it a fixed address on my cable router, I can mount the volume, drag it to start-up items in accounts and it comes right up. This is, however based on less than a week of usage... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
