RE: [WinMac] Novell to NT/OS X?????

Hetzel, Thomas(TLHetzel[at]metatec.com)
Thu, 10 Feb 2000 14:52:40 -0500

I like NT as our file server. Don't have any experience with OS X yet but NT
works great in a cross platform environment (don't think OS X has any
Windows support yet). Make sure you keep up to date with the service packs
though.

Don't use print services for Macintosh however with NT. In the past we would
get loads of Postscript errors coming out of our printers when spooling to
the NT server. I went to a conference last year at Macworld and even a
Microsoft Rep mentioned to not use it.

As far as activating fonts from the server,I've tried that in the past and
had very bad luck with that. I've made a separate partition on each local
computer to store fonts and found that works much better. We are using Font
Reserve 2.5.2 (by the way having very bad luck with that with OS 9 and
multiple users turned on.) and we load lots of fonts in it.

That's my experience for what it's worth.

Thomas Hetzel
Macintosh Technician
Metatec International

> ----------
> From: Scott Simons
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> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 12:33 PM
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> Subject: [WinMac] Novell to NT/OS X?????
>
> I've spent the past few hours search MS's site and others about info on
> NT and such and would like some real world experiences/suggestions.
> Please.
>
> Here's my story, I have a Novell 3.12 server that is working like a champ
> and am not replacing. I also have a Novell 4.10 server that I just
> upgraded with new hardware (Y2K) and have been down for a month. First
> it was one problem and then another. I have even had two different
> companies out to look at it with no help, and am getting ready to call in
> a third. We use it primarily for Mac File services. Approximately 30
> Macs. We are in a DTP environment. Fonts reside on the server and are
> launched from the server. Novell is up and running, and then I start to
> restore files back onto the server and everything works, this time, and
> then the next time it will boot me out of the server, with no one else
> connected, and the server will goto 100% utilization. It will then not
> let me down the server properly.
>
> Right now I've had enough and need to get something up and working. I
> have been circumventing the situation by use a couple of Macs with large
> hard drives connected to them with personal file sharing activated.
> Slowwwww and inadequate.
>
> I am now thinking about switching to NT. We already have new hardware
> and will just need to purchase the OS. OS X on the other hand would
> involve new everything, but it would work...
>
> Any suggestions and/or comments on experiences would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
>
> Scott R Simons
> The Composing Room of Michigan, Inc.
> 2303 Kalamazoo Ave SE
> Grand Rapids, MI 49507
>
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>
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