Re: Thinking of getting a server for the home.

2011-02-22 Thread Matthew Campbell
The server snow leopard is different as far as file sharing goes. You can implement more strict permissions on the server that you can't implement on the regular mac OS X. On 2011-02-22, at 9:00 AM, Rose Morales wrote: > Really? What about hitting command-k and launching your Windows drives that

Re: Thinking of getting a server for the home.

2011-02-22 Thread Tony Bernedal
Hi. I don't use servers at home. For my storage needs I use a netgear readynas duo and it works perfect both on mac and windowsenvironment. To get best performance with the mac you need to turn on AFP sharing protocol. You can also install a addon on the readynas and a little program on your com

Re: Thinking of getting a server for the home.

2011-02-22 Thread Rose Morales
Really? What about hitting command-k and launching your Windows drives that way? That's what I do on regular OS X. I also have my drives from my Windows box set to run on startup. I did this through System preferences, Accounts, Login Items. On Feb 22, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Matthew Campbell wrote:

Re: Thinking of getting a server for the home.

2011-02-22 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hello Stuart. I'm using a mac mini with snow leopard server and it works amazingly well. I've got all of my drives shared on the network and am able to access any of my files and folders that I might need on my macbook or my windows 7 netbook. One thing that you will need to do is to make sure all

Re: Thinking of getting a server for the home.

2011-02-22 Thread Kevin Shaw
Stewart, Run OS X Server on a Mac Mini. It is VO compatible for sure. Not sure about running home automation software. Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.co

Thinking of getting a server for the home.

2011-02-21 Thread Stuart Young
Hi all I'm thinking of getting a mac server for my home to host all of my shared media that i have in itunes, how well does mac OSX server work? as i have some windows computers and they will need to share the content as well. also this server will maybe used for some home automation as well d