We are running 4 licenses of SW 2008 on 4 Mac Pros runningWindows XP SP3 on bootcamp.
However, our shared SW files are stored on a Mac Pro running Mac OS10.5 server. So to get technical the files are written to theserver hard disk in UNIX format and the Mac OS has software thattricks the Windows XP clients to thinking the files are actually inNTFS format.
This has never been a reliable setup; as we often get read andwrite errors. But lately we've been loosing up to 2 days work asthe server seems to be restoring an older file, with noexplanation.
We are going to trial a NAS formatted to NTFS to store our files(please comment if this has know to be a problem).
But has any one out there had these problems and found a solution?As we've spent a lot of money and time on our hardware and itshould work.
Other solutions include: Running Windows XP on the server underboot camp. (but then we loose all the benefits of the UNIX basedserver)
Regards, Euan.SolidworksAdministration
However, our shared SW files are stored on a Mac Pro running Mac OS10.5 server. So to get technical the files are written to theserver hard disk in UNIX format and the Mac OS has software thattricks the Windows XP clients to thinking the files are actually inNTFS format.
This has never been a reliable setup; as we often get read andwrite errors. But lately we've been loosing up to 2 days work asthe server seems to be restoring an older file, with noexplanation.
We are going to trial a NAS formatted to NTFS to store our files(please comment if this has know to be a problem).
But has any one out there had these problems and found a solution?As we've spent a lot of money and time on our hardware and itshould work.
Other solutions include: Running Windows XP on the server underboot camp. (but then we loose all the benefits of the UNIX basedserver)
Regards, Euan.SolidworksAdministration
