Hi all - I was hoping to get some help as I change my developing home
network.
Original Plan
I have a few older Macs with my iMac DVSE 400 being the main machine. It
has a 13GB HD which is too small for the iMovie, PDF, and MP3 files I'd like
to create and store. I also have a Duo 2300c and a dock for which I bought
a 9GB SCSI drive (larger drives were too much $$). The plan was to run the
Duo in the Dock and use it for backups and iMovie files (after creation,
just for storage). I would probably be running it without a monitor and it
would only be on occasionally.
Revised Plan
As my old company is closing, I picked up (really cheap) an old PC Server
which was pretty decent a couple years back (Dual PII-400, 512MB RAM) and is
running W2K Advanced Server. Now I'm thinking this might be a better server
for a network since it:
- has tons of drive bays (2 5.25" plus room for about 4 or 5 other HDs)
- will take an IDE drive which are very cheap
- can take (generally) cheaper PC components (for example, I found an
internal DVD/CDRW for $120!)
I know I can run "Services for Macintosh" so that the Mac will see the the
server. What I don't know is if there are any unknown (to me) issues with
this? Specifically:
1) will it really be just like the files were stored on a Mac or might some
strange file translation happen?
2) If I buy the CDRW, can I burn the Mac files stored on the PC so a Mac can
read them as if they were burned by a Mac? Better yet would be accessing
the CDRW from the Mac, but I doubt I can do that.
3) Our old IT consultants said that Appletalk was very 'chatty' so they
didn't like us to have too many Macs on the network. Could this be a
problem? I would probably connect both the iMac and Server to a 100Mbps
Linksys router.
4) Not Mac related but is there any way to pass through or chain together
IDE devices like SCSI ones? If not, then I guess I can't get a cheap HD and
a CDRW since they are both IDE devices and would need the same connection.
:(
If it matters, my only constraints are money and space (I have very little
of either). Thanks for any suggestions.
~ta
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