Permissions Issue from Intel to PowerPC?

[asp272]

The ironic thing is that when I talked to our IT guy about the possibility of getting some server space he told me that we already have numerous Xserves here at the company - all running Windows! Also, we have a 7 TB Xserve that our job management system called Marketing Pilot is running on. When I asked if we could just get 1 TB of that allocated to an AFP share, he said that Appletalk was "too chatty" and they didn't want to turn that on when the share would be on the same server as Windows shares. Do you see any merit in that claim?

[ElDiabloConCaca]

There is no merit to that claim, because OS X doesn't use AppleTalk natively anymore... it uses AFP ("Apple Filing Protocol") which is NOT AppleTalk and is NOT a "chatty" protocol.

While OS X can use AppleTalk to communicate with older operating systems (OS 7, 8, 9), as long as you're using OS X on all your machines, you can simply use the AFP protocol which is much improved and vastly different from AppleTalk.

I would explain to your IT guy that AFP is NOT AppleTalk.

[asp272]

That's what I thought, and tried to argue when I asked him about it, but I wasn't 100% sure. My sincerest thanks again for your advice!