On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 08:29 +0800, Antony N. Lord wrote: > I'm about to build an XP based full tower with about 8 removable > drives in it to act as the main storage unit for all the data around > the house / that I bring home (because the hardware is cheap and > space a plenty!) > > Are there any downsides to backing up to / storing Mac data on the > windows platform? I've never had issues in the past when sharing data > on a mixed network. > > Cheers, Antony. >
Hi Antony, Given that the Mac is a BSD/unix derivitive I would like to think that you are much better off installing Linux on this fileserver. Not only will you have greater stability and security, but you have a much greater number of options as far as mounting the remote filesystem such as NFS, samba or even appletalk. I understand that Linux is a little daunting for the first time user, however with newer distributions out there they are becoming easier and eaier to use (I would recommend using one with a GUI interface such as Ubuntu). Adam. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
