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At a point of decision from PC to Mac, what about linux fileservers?
Aloha from Maui,
My first time in this forum. I’ve used the PC platform for many years to turn out a weekly religious broadcast TV show. With Vista looming, I see this as a great time to transition to the MAC. Here’s my question. If it’s better asked in another forum, let me know and I’ll leave quietly… nary a ripple.
I’m using XP running Premiere Pro and AFX (the whole suite actually) on a couple of workstations hooked via gigabit ethernet to a Linux fileser running Samba. I know someone will ask me what filesystem is on the Linux box and the truth is that I don’t know. I’m not even sure how to find out. That’s the wonderful thing about Linux I guess, it just works. You don’t have to play with it. A vendor set it up for me and when something works, I leave it alone. Here’s the question.
Whether via Samba or native Linux/Unix access, will the Mac write to this device? It’s my understanding that OSX will not write to NTFS; read yes, but write no. Does the Linux middle man make things easier or more difficult?
ron moody on Maui
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Hello Ron,
Yes, the Mac is able to write to a NTFS volume, if you allow it from Windows NT.
For linux, its depend of your flavor of Linux.
Mac OSX is able to mount Samba volume and work with. I would say that in theory there is no problem.
If you want to use a server volume to work with in video, I mean capture, render… I strongly suggest you to work with a SAN, XSAN from Apple or other.Regards,
MartialVancouver Island Final Cut Pro User Group
Martial Bachoffner
Founder and Administrator
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