My old server was an xp box with multiple usb harddrives -- one for media one for backup. I liked using a windows machine b/c it was free and I could run mozy for offsite backups and syncback for onsite backups. BUT, I also had to run a hackintosh to serve a webcam for my blog using evocam and a patchsticked apple tv to run xbmc and boxee.
To combine all functionality in one box, I bought the new mac mini and attached the harddrives. Running mozy for mac and time machine and synkron for backups, evocam for the webcam. Connected to my plasma and running xbmc
Our main machine is an iMac. When I was using the windows server, I mounted the windows drive with the media on it on my iMac and added all my music and photos to iTunes and iPhoto respectively, with all content stored on the remote drive (i.e., no copied locally).
When I switched to the mac mini, I enabled afp sharing and made sure that the file path to my music and photos was the same.
On the iMac, iTunes works fine -- the switch from smb to afp didn't cause any issues at all, iTunes was able to find all of the files without any issue.
However, iPhoto is a problem. Unlike iTunes, iPhoto doesn't seem to mark files by location. Instead, iPhoto actually creates symlinks in Users/username/Photos/iPhoto Library that point to the actual photos.
***The PROBLEM is that the symlinks point to an smb share, not to an afp share, even though the file path in both cases is identical i.e., Volumes/Server/Pictures, iPhoto is still looking for the smb share. I can fix this by giving the mini the same ip address that the windows server had and enabling smb sharing.
So here are my questions (finally): Which is better in my now-all-mac environment, afp or smb? Is it ok to have both smb and afp sharing enabled at the same time? Should I use just smb (itunes recognizes the music files over either)? If afp is better, is there any way to batch edit the iPhoto-created symlinks to point to the afp share instead of the smb share (the file path is the same afterall).
OK, that's it for now. Thanks for reading.
Joe
To combine all functionality in one box, I bought the new mac mini and attached the harddrives. Running mozy for mac and time machine and synkron for backups, evocam for the webcam. Connected to my plasma and running xbmc
Our main machine is an iMac. When I was using the windows server, I mounted the windows drive with the media on it on my iMac and added all my music and photos to iTunes and iPhoto respectively, with all content stored on the remote drive (i.e., no copied locally).
When I switched to the mac mini, I enabled afp sharing and made sure that the file path to my music and photos was the same.
On the iMac, iTunes works fine -- the switch from smb to afp didn't cause any issues at all, iTunes was able to find all of the files without any issue.
However, iPhoto is a problem. Unlike iTunes, iPhoto doesn't seem to mark files by location. Instead, iPhoto actually creates symlinks in Users/username/Photos/iPhoto Library that point to the actual photos.
***The PROBLEM is that the symlinks point to an smb share, not to an afp share, even though the file path in both cases is identical i.e., Volumes/Server/Pictures, iPhoto is still looking for the smb share. I can fix this by giving the mini the same ip address that the windows server had and enabling smb sharing.
So here are my questions (finally): Which is better in my now-all-mac environment, afp or smb? Is it ok to have both smb and afp sharing enabled at the same time? Should I use just smb (itunes recognizes the music files over either)? If afp is better, is there any way to batch edit the iPhoto-created symlinks to point to the afp share instead of the smb share (the file path is the same afterall).
OK, that's it for now. Thanks for reading.
Joe