Cross platform filing system access?

Has anyone any experience with Paragon software (http://www.paragon-software.com/) filing system tools for osx and windows?
I want to be able to access OSX formated USB/firewire/eSATA drives from Windows 7/64 and also need something to enable latest OSX to access NTFS formatted drives (if it cant out of the box).
Looking for similar for accessing each others network shares as well (if thats needed - I dont know yet).
Anything else that better?
Thanks all

Khazul wrote:
Has anyone any experience with Paragon software (http://www.paragon-software.com/) filing system tools for osx and windows?
I want to be able to access OSX formated USB/firewire/eSATA drives from Windows 7/64 and also need something to enable latest OSX to access NTFS formatted drives (if it cant out of the box).
Looking for similar for accessing each others network shares as well (if thats needed - I dont know yet).
Anything else that better?
Well, I have used the free NTFS drivers for MacOS and they worked OK. They were a bit slow, but they got the job done. I have also used MedaFour's MacDrive8 on my Windows 7 (x86) systems with levels of success.
I have recently converted to using the Paragon drivers at the recommendation of a user here with much more experience than myself. The MacOS driver for NTFS has worked flawlessly for me, although I did notice one small incident when I re-partitioned and re-formatted a drive, where for some reason it would only allow me to enter a single character for the volume label. Once the format completed, I had no problems renaming the volume, so I'm not sure what's up there. I will have to try to reproduce this to see if it is a problem with the driver, or just a one-time weird error on my system. On the Windows side, I like how the Paragon driver integrates more seamlessly into Windows and just works. MacDrive8 was OK, but it had a few small issues for me, and the Paragon tool doesn't seem to have these same limitations. In any case, be warned that installing any HFS+ Driver on Windows will probably cause our optical disk drive letter to change. There are ways to deal with this, but it can catch you off guard if you aren't expecting it...

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