Hi
we are in the process of upgrading one of our fileservers to a new machine,
we currently have 1.5tb of mainly apple mac design data sat on a Windows 2003 Std edition server. We are planning to move all this data including
permissions to a new box running Windows Storage Server 2003 .
We have a problem that in testing the data on the new box we are unable to
view any shared folders using an Apple Mac with the access command
"AFP://servername". When using "smb://servername" the shares are viewable but some data is unusable as it has been editted using the AFP protocol and this loses a lot of metadata.
The shares will view and are accessable from a PC witout any trouble at all.
All security permissions have copied across with the data and are intact so
we know our security is Ok as far as restricting folder access. We have now
tried restoring the data & permissions with Backup Exec 11d & "Robocopy" to the new server and still cannot get this Mac access to shared folders.
We have set the sharing permissions on these folders for Apple Mac access
via the computer management console, under shared folders. This sometimes
seems very flakey in getting them to display. Any new folders we create will
work fine but any restored data shares will not work.
We have all the relevant Apple protocols installed to access this data.
Has anyone got any suggestions as to what we can check ?
We have matched the 2 server setups to check we have not missed anything but they seem identical, they have all the same protocols and Mac share folder settings ?
Any advice much appreciated
Cheers,
Rich
we are in the process of upgrading one of our fileservers to a new machine,
we currently have 1.5tb of mainly apple mac design data sat on a Windows 2003 Std edition server. We are planning to move all this data including
permissions to a new box running Windows Storage Server 2003 .
We have a problem that in testing the data on the new box we are unable to
view any shared folders using an Apple Mac with the access command
"AFP://servername". When using "smb://servername" the shares are viewable but some data is unusable as it has been editted using the AFP protocol and this loses a lot of metadata.
The shares will view and are accessable from a PC witout any trouble at all.
All security permissions have copied across with the data and are intact so
we know our security is Ok as far as restricting folder access. We have now
tried restoring the data & permissions with Backup Exec 11d & "Robocopy" to the new server and still cannot get this Mac access to shared folders.
We have set the sharing permissions on these folders for Apple Mac access
via the computer management console, under shared folders. This sometimes
seems very flakey in getting them to display. Any new folders we create will
work fine but any restored data shares will not work.
We have all the relevant Apple protocols installed to access this data.
Has anyone got any suggestions as to what we can check ?
We have matched the 2 server setups to check we have not missed anything but they seem identical, they have all the same protocols and Mac share folder settings ?
Any advice much appreciated
Cheers,
Rich