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scottmso:
I have a PC with M$ Windoze XP Home and Mandrake Linux 8.2, and an iMac 400 DV with MacOS 9.0.4. Is there software (for Linux or Windoze) that I can use to make the PC's hard drive act like a file server for the iMac?

pkd_lives:
There used to be a program called PC Maclan, which was made by a company called Miramar systems, I think. This could make pc and mac talk together, but I hear it had a bug or two. It had a fileserver program as part of the application. Don't know if it is still available.

A URL that may help http://www.miramar.com/

[ July 15, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]

Calum:
does this software include "pc"s running BSD? or Linux? or solaris? do you mean "PC" or "Microsoft windows"?

scottmso:
. (sorry)

[ July 15, 2002: Message edited by: scott ]

pkd_lives:
Your implication is quite correct Calum, I should have made it clear, that as far as I am aware it is Windows and Mac. However, I believe there was some development for it for Unix, but I am not up-to-date on this, and the unix stuff is only hearsay, and that was why I sought out a link for the software, to help clarify the situation, and let people judge for themselves.

I should report back that the older versions have been decribed to me as 'buggy', which does not suprise me in the least, anything linking Mac and Windows seems bound to be tied up in bugs as those companies will never see eye-to-eye. I have not had problems, but then I never used it extensively, something that may actually happen as the company I now work for has Macs and Windows, unfortunatley they are dropping the Mac stuff, slowly.

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