RE: OT: Mac and NT 4.0 File Share

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sorry.. linky

http://www.thursby.com/products/dave.html

p.

> Who's DAVE?...........I'll google........
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> Many thanks,
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> Rob
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: yahoogroups@xxxxxxx [mailto:yahoogroups@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 September 2004 15:12
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT: Mac and NT 4.0 File Share
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> Try installing DAVE on the mac, that normally sorts all sort of
sharing
> problems with PC's
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> p.
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>> Hi
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>> I know we have some Mac'ers in here..
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>> 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).
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>> 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!
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>> "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."
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>> 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?
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>> So two questions:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Many thanks,
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>> Rob
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