Having spent a good part of yesterday trying to get a file share working from a new server to a variety of Mac and PC machines around the home office I can’t help reflecting on what a complete waste of time it was. The elusive goal was the same functionality that is offered by Dropbox.
Instead of using this I had to format a drive. Plug it into different machines to do this. Deal with fact that OS X file systems were not supported and that OS X 10.5 can read but not write to NTFS. At the end of the process I was left with stubborn permisioning errors from the Mac which need resonlution through changes to the SMB server which had a hard wired smb.conf.
Another elusive goal was media server services being able to operate from the device. This is of course of no use for any equipment in a primarily Mac based home. The services which failed to materialize after about ten hours of research and s significant hard cost on equipment were no more functional than with dropbox and youtube. In fact the throughput of the local server at 3MB / second was less than the FIOS line to online services.
Once again one is reminded why the changes to the cloud are happening. It saves time and money and actually works better than integrating solutions ones self.
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