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On Nov 9, 2007, at 9:05 PM, Javier Ornelas wrote: > I have a lab that is made up of 3 Mac’s that aren’t networked > together at this time, but would like to use a new Dell PC as a > fileserver for all 3 Mac’s. Anyone have any advice for setting this > up? The Mac’s are about 1 year old (PowerPC’s) running OSX > (10.4.x) The Dell is brand new. They were thinking of using Folder > Share, but were asking if this is the best way to go without > spending much money. If software is needed for this to happen, they > are willing to purchase it. I would probably install Solaris 10 or an OpenSolaris distribution (or some other *nix variant of your choice) on the Dell, and export the data via NFS. OS X has no problem mounting NFS. Of course there are many, many options besides this, but this is probably what I would do. ./mk -- Matt Kolb <[log in to unmask]> Academic Computing & Network Services Michigan State University