On Nov 7, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Dan wrote: > > At 10:39 AM -0500 11/7/2011, JohnV wrote: >> A while back I bought a 4-drive NAS for the mac network here and found out >> that between >> >> a- the file naming issues made trying to back things up a mess >> and >> b- MAC OS doesn;t play nice with NAS access in general >> >> I have a bunch of partial backup material on the NAS that needs to be >> transferred onto new HD's for organization and, so far, when I try that, the >> transfer stalls a few minutes into things and I have to reboot to get >> control back. >> >> Is there an answer to this? > > Yes. Play with apple and apples, not apples and oranges. > > Your item (a) is the key. You've used some (undisclosed, perhaps Finder?) > app to copy files from your Mac's HFS+ file system to a cr*p MS file system - > either NTFS or FAT (per the Storango's doc). That's just not good. While > the individual file's data forks on that NAS may be intact, the file system > you've created is essentially corrupted - broken filenames, missing metadata > etc. > > This is further complicated because that NAS box doesn't support Apple's > native file sharing protocol, AFP. It only supports raw ip (http and ftp) > and MS things, like SMB. ... and you haven't disclosed which method you're > using.
What Dan said plus this: if you're using SMB on the G5 to connect (and there really isn't any other option per their docs) SMB under 10.4 suxrox bigtime. If you can update that G5 to 10.5 it will be a lot better. -- 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 a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
