OT: Mac and NT 4.0 File Share

["Rob Mouser" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi



I know we have some Mac'ers in here..



A small charity I try and help out have got themselves a Mac which I have
added to the network for them, their workgroup server is an NT4.0 box (Must
bring them up to 2000/2003 at some stage).

I've implemented the MS way of allowing a Mac share but it doesn't seem to
be working very well. Here is what has happened on more than one occasion
now and it seems VERY screwy to my simple brain!



"Files just seem to disappear! ----- Look on the Mac and you can't see
the
files in the share, look on the NT server and the files are there! Copy the
files out of the Mac share onto another folder on the server and then copy
them back to the Mac share and all appears again."



Ok, now I know this seems really silly and I don't get to actually 'visit'
them very often but from chatting through with them on the phone and
walking
them through the above this appears to be real. I THINK (You know what
users
can be like!) this may have also recently happened on a PC to Server
scenario too?



So two questions:



1)       Are they (or me!) loosing it! Could this be a hard drive issue? I
seem to remember a problem with disappearing files on certain Seagate
drives
a few years ago.

2)       Is their any nice free(ish) software to help manage the Mac to PC
file share relationship? As they get very confused at the moment.



Many thanks,



Rob





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