A small business has a small P2P LAN consisting of four XP Home, one
W2K-Server, and one Mac OS X boxes. It also uses one of those
stand-alone Seagate NT-based LAN hard drives, which at the moment is
attached to the Mac for back up.
Because they have all the boxes sharing folders with all the others, XP
Home doesn't like that: XP Home allows only up to five shared
connections, and it can't attach to NT domains.
While only using the W2K for sharing will cure the max connection
limitation, it seems OS X has problems reliably accessing NTFS partitions.
Does anyone know if there is an inherent problem with OS X accessing
NTFS, or might this be merely a misconfiguration? I know that Linux NTFS
write support is considered experimental, but I know next to nothing
about OS X.
One obvious solution is to replace all the XP Home OSes with XP Pro,
which solves the max client limitation, but still leaves the Mac
problem. But I'd like to suggest a cheaper (part+labor) solution if
possible.
Another solution might be a Linux-based Samba server, but will XP Home
be able to authenticate to Samba?
So, two main questions:
1) Can OS X reliably access (read and write) NTFS partitions?
2) Can XP Home authenticate to Samba?
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