[Ti] personal file server

[Arne Hulstein]

Hmmm, maybe the term fileserver was wrongly chosen. I need a computer
attached to a harddisk for extra storage and a place to direct my backups
to... OS X would probably do fine. But then the rest...

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Tarik Bilgin <tarik at opalblue.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> 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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