RE: [WinMac] NT 4 server - Mac users only see first 200 shares?

Harris, Matt(HARRISMA[at]Mattel.com)
Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:04:20 -0800

        Curtis is correct, and your NT server should perform better with a
single SFM (Services for Macintosh) share as well.

        Curtis did overlook one possibility - if you really want all of the
shares available to PC users as mapped drives, turn off the 1200 SFM shares
and set only one SFM share to the directory which contains all of your
individual shares. I am surprised the SFM overhead is not killing your
server performance as it is. Even if it worked, that is not the easiest
configuration to manage. Be kind to the guy that set that up when you ask
to change it - there is a ton of work represented by those 1200 shares
getting set up (and just as much work to turn of the shares). Good luck.

>What's the best option here -- reduce the number of
shares on the NT
>server?

                        I think that's your only option. If what you're
trying to is have personal
                        folders, why not put them all in a few (or even just
one) folder which is
                        shared and control access to them by file
permissions rather than share
                        permissions. For the Macs they'll only have one
volume to mount and inside
                        that volume all the folders will be locked except
the one their login
                        permits them to use. The only drawback to the
one-share method is Win95
                        clients can't map a drive directly to their folder
(WinNT clients can using
                        the SUBST command), they would have to find their
folder inside the shared
                        folder. The Macs can create an alias which will take
them directly to their
                        folder and the Windows clients could create
shortcuts to do the same
                        assuming the same individuals need to connect from
the same computer every
                        time. If this is to allow 'roaming', I wonder if you
could put a Mac alias
                        or PC shortcut on a floppy and have it work on
another computer (of the
                        same platform type of course).
                        --
                        Curtis Wilcox
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