We are just about an all Mac house, but we are considering a unix only
server environment with Network Attached Storage (probably NetApp)
because our web publishing and hosting side is going there anyway and
we're already using Linux and Solaris for serving for web dev. However,
we still rely on a Mac G3 AppleShare IP server with attached RAID and
dedicated DLT backup for magazine publishing. Can anyone comment on the
problems of going to all Unix based storage over Netatalk with graphics
users dealing in Quark and Photoshop files and writers in Microsoft Word,
all being accessed over netatalk by Macintosh G3 and G4 machines?
I ask because Quark, especially, is very finicky. For example, we had
problems just in migrating from Apple's HFS to HFS+ some time ago, with
users not being able to see certain Word formatted files with Quarks's
Word import feature (which is how you get the copy of an article into the
layout). I realize this will probably be pushing the envelope just a
little as I don't know of any other publishing houses with NetApp Filers,
snapshots, Fiber Channel, the whole nine yards really just for graphic
arts departments.
-Lewis
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Lewis Pennock
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http://www.lewis.net
