Re: [WinMac] Re: WinMac Digest #160 - 12/07/98

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Mon, 14 Dec 1998 22:12:01 -0500

At 08:50 PM 12/14/98 -0700, Jeff wrote:
>>
>> Dear Thomas:
>>
>> One of the strongest points of NT's Services for Macintosh -- And NT in
>>general -- is NTFS. We all know what a joke HFS is on large volumes; and
>>what a disaster HFS+ is (at least until Norton Utilities 4.0 came out a few
>>weeks ago). NTFS is much more robust, and self-healing to a point. And if a
>>file is corrupted, the OS will lock it out.

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>
>However, the problem with Services for Macintosh doesn't relate to the
>power of the network or the security or 'robustness' of the file system.
>The problem is it fails often: "Oops, I can't see the network", and the
>network guy may even have to reboot the server. And he probably can't
>even figure out what caused it. Fix this and we'll be happier about
>plugging our Macs into NT.
>
>Jeff T
>thorstadj@macconnect.com

        Actually, all you need to do is open up the Services Control Panel, and
stop & restart File Server for Macintosh... No need to reboot.

        Also, a common mistake is to enable a MacFile volume at the root level of
a hard drive... Another common mistake is to load up an NTFS volume to over
about 75-80%.

        Yours truly,
        Daniel L. Schwartz,
        Electrical Engineer.

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