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SwissKhalifa

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Hello, Normaly i work with Windows Client and Windows Server but i have one client that only uses Mac and want a fileshare server to store their data. They are working with Pictures so i hope this is the correct forum beacuse of the Picture and video files they want to store and work on. If this is the wrong place, please advise me were to post :)
 
Hi, I think this may be the wrong forum for this topic but Macs can access pretty much the same file servers as Windows nowadays. Gone are the days when you had to have specific support.

The thing to know though is that the apple filesystems have extended file attributes (user permissions and ownership) that a FAT based filesystem cannot store and so when a Mac creates or modifies a file on a Windows filesystem, it creates a second file with the same name but beginning with a period. for example image.jpg and .image.jpg

As the mac operating systems are descended from a UNIX/Linux like bloodline, then when they use the windows filesystem, the files with the period prefix are not shown as this is how a hidden file is created on a *nix filesystem.

It is absolutely not an issue, however you may need to warn them that should a windows machine access the fileshares, then they will be able to see these files.

Of course if you have a share that is apple filesystem or Linux file shares then this is not an issue at all.

So the answer is pretty much the same as you do for other clients. Beyond this, all other best practices stand regards shared filestore handling.
 
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