On Mar 10, 2009, at 9:28 AM, John Musbach wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Bruce Johnson > <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote: >> No, Win2K cannot write to HFS+ drives; back when I ran Win2K, I had >> to use MacDrive to get that functionality. > > You all might be thinking about this: > http://windows.stanford.edu/Public/Infrastructure/MacConfig.html. > Windows 2000 didn't have the ability to mount HFS+ volumes directly, > but it did have the ability to provide AFP shares which supposedly > also had support for mac resource forks. Yes. Services for Macintosh, or as I called it 'Here, let me <Bleep> You in the <Bleep>, Apple...Love Microsoft' As with virtually everything Microsoft, their AFP implementation sucked giant green donkey ones. Upon a server restart, they recreated some friggin' database linking files in the AFP share to what was actually on the disk, how long this took was dependent on how large the shared volume was. It would take two or more hours on our 750 gig (at the time) workgroups share. If Windows clients changed the a directory that was already scanned while this was going on, you would end up with files on the Windows share that would not appear on the AFP share. Ever, until we restarted the server and rebuilt the database. So for two hours after any reboot, we had to keep our file server disconnected from the network, until that one process finished. THAT made the Mac users EXTREMELY popular in this office. If too many files got put on at once, this would also cause the database to get out of sync. Oh yeah. The Windows AFP implementation is limited to 32 character filenames, and 256 character max path lengths. They went WAAAAY out of their way to really, truly suckrox on that technology. I was SOOOOOO freaking happy that OSX supported SMB out of the box, I danced for joy the day we turned off our last OS 9 client, and I could finally dispense with DAVE. There was a third party AFP share software for Win2K (And Win2k3) that solved most of these issues but it was several hundred dollars, and we could never justify the added costs and support issues for the (then) handful of Macs on our network. Now of course, we just use SMB and connect to the regular Windows shares and not have any issues, once we hit 10.4. SMB was problematic in 10.2 and 10.3, but even when it made me reboot a couple times a day it was better than the Windows AFP crap. -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
