[G4] G4 as a file server?

[Doug Burton]

Yep, Sharepoints works great as I have my file sever set up in a PC/Mac  
network on a 350 Mhz B&W.  Like John, I have a small boot drive with a  
PCI IDE card driving a pair of 120 Mb Seagate HD's.  I use Chronosync  
to keep a backup from one drive to the other.  I've wondered how much  
of an increase in speed I would get from upgrading to the Gigabit G4?   
RIght now my B&W keeps up with serving MP3's on the network, so I don't  
know if it would be worth the cost to upgrade.

Just a message from Doug...


On May 26, 2007, at 3:53 AM, Dave Walker wrote:

> Google for a piece of shareware called Sharepoints - It will allow you  
> to create custom shared drives on regular OS X, without having to go  
> up to OS X Server.
> It has saved my bacon a few times in the past, and I thoroughly  
> recommend it
>
> Hope this helps
>
>
> Dave
>
> On 25 May 2007, at 20:16, John Niven wrote:
>
>> I have a mixed PC mac home network. Currently, a W2000
>> PC serves as file and print server but I'd like to
>> phase that out and replace it with a Gigabit G4. This
>> I have setup with a smallish boot drive and two 180Gb
>> SATA drives (mirrored) hooked to a Sonnet Tempo PCI
>> card.
>>
>> Under Tiger, I have set up a "guest' account for
>> everybody to log in as, but whne I log in I can't see
>> the SATA drives. What do I have to do to allow others
>> to r/w files on the 180Gb mirror?
>>
>> Should I be looking for   osx server s/w?
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
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