[Ti] personal file server

[Tarik Bilgin]

If when you say you need it as a file server for MS machines you mean  
that you need a domain controller then you need  OS X server.  
Otherwise OS X is enough.

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Tarik

On Feb 11, 2009, at 2:49 AM, Arne Hulstein <arne.hulstein at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I have an old 500mhz TiBook of which the screen has broken (see much  
> earlier posts) and the battery is gone. However, it still uses less  
> power than my desktop. For this reason I was thinking of using it as  
> the fileserver for my wireless network. I have a problem though as  
> the network also has MS powered computers on it. (It shouldn't, I  
> know, but still ;-)) Anyway, I want to attach an external USB disk  
> to use as a storage facility to keep it all low budget. Any thoughts  
> on how to make this work? I cannot use an NTFS formatted disk as OS  
> X won't write to it. I could make the whole thing run linux, but I  
> like OS X too much. What to do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arne
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