This can't be done. The best way for Macintosh users to access a filer (or any NT box) is to use a product from Thursby Software called Dave.
Here's a link to their web site:
Regards,
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Sanford [mailto:JSanford@rsinc.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 1999 2:21 PM To: 'Toasters' Subject: MAC Name Volumes
Hello everyone,
I am trying to setup MAC Naming Services on a NTFS volume on our NetApp. Not sure how this works and if it can be done. The objective is allow our MAC users access for file storage and retrieval on this volume.
Anyone have any ideas ???
Thanks,
********************************* Jim Sanford IS Department Research Systems, Inc. *********************************
At 14:55 -0800 1999'03'26, Benn, Paul wrote:
This can't be done. The best way for Macintosh users to access a filer (or any NT box) is to use a product from Thursby Software called Dave.
Here's a link to their web site:
Regards,
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Sanford [mailto:JSanford@rsinc.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 1999 2:21 PM To: 'Toasters' Subject: MAC Name Volumes
Hello everyone,
I am trying to setup MAC Naming Services on a NTFS volume on our NetApp. Not sure how this works and if it can be done. The objective is allow our MAC users access for file storage and retrieval on this volume.
Anyone have any ideas ???
I'm not a big fan of DAVE. But that's your only choice if you're giving access to an NTFS share.
I prefer using Xinet's KA-Share or Helios' EtherShare to mount the NetApp via NFS and then allow access via AppleShare. (I only have experience with KA-Share, but both products support "re-exporting" NFS volumes.) No extra software on the desktops needed. Of course you need a UNIX server and NFS volumes for this to work.
http://www.xinet.com http://www.helios.com
Also, you can check the archive, there was a thread on 14 Oct 1998 here on the same subject "Macintosh Access."
--clark http://macunix.com
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Clark Shishido wrote:
Of course you need a UNIX server and NFS volumes for this to work.
I don't think I sent my reply to this to the group so I'll just re-mail the essence of my utterance.
You'll also need to plan to potentially double your network capacity if most of the boxes you use are Macs. You'll be sending twice as much traffic (more or less without cachefs) over the network for every operation by a Mac.
We have a similar scenario set up for accessing data via SMB from NACs. I'm trying to convince my company to use CIFS with DFS and skip the middle man, but I think it's falling on deaf ears. I've used DFS someplace else with success. OTOH, we have a much larger environment here.
Tom
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