> i'm just planning a heterogenous network with mac win and unix machines
> (all in all about 30 computers). to easen backup tasks and lower the costs
> i think about a central fileserver. linux with samba and netatalk should
> do that, but as i heard there ar some problems with this solution ??
There are two problems, as I understand it:
1) Fred saves a file from his Mac. He then goes to and IBM and deletes
it.
He then goes back to his mac, and can *see* the icon for that file,
but
when he tries to open it, he gets a "file not found" error. But, he
can't
get rid of the icon, either.
2) Fred on a Mac and Mary on a PC have the same filemaker database open.
In this situation, I don't think record locking works that well.
If you don't plan to do a lot of database work between apps, and you can
educate users to delete files made by a mac, with a mac, then I think it
works fine.
I have a Mac/Win 95 environment about three times the size and mostly it
seems
OK, and a lot more stable that MacIP 6. I use FreeBSD 3.1 but Linux
should be
OK too (well, almost!).
Eddie.
