Re: Macintosh Clients
- From: Andrew Hodgson <me3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:25:44 +0000
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:20:02 -0800, Rholton
<Rholton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a Windows 2003 SBS Server with Mac Clients. I set up a mac share and
copied thier mac files to it from their old snap server. The mac can connect
to it and see the files, but quark files and illustrator files show up as
unix files. HELP!
I have had this issue several times when moving from an AFP based file
server to a Windows file server using smb://servername to access the
files. If the files do not have Windows extensions, then the finder
can get the information from the files extension from a file which is
put on the server called .ds_store. There are two ways I have got
round this issue:
1. Do not use a Windows machine to move the files from the other file
server to the Windows based file server. If you use a Mac to do the
moving, the file .ds_store will be created with the right data, and
you can launch the files with the respective application.
2. Open the file up in the respective application, then save it
again. This will cause the necessary write to happen and the file to
be created.
Windows users often delete these files, causing the same thing to
happen.
I am not sure whether it is possible to get the applications - Quark
Express was the main one in our case - to save with a file extension
each time. We did upgrade the version of Quark on the Mac, as the
older version ran under Classic, so this could have been the issue,
but the person who used the Mac primarily left the company, so the
issue went away.
This is only my observations - I am not primarily a Mac user.
Andrew.
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