OSX & XP server

I have a few computers that I have accumulated in the past few years. Most are Windows PCs, but I bought a MacBook Pro around 6 months ago and I am never building another PC again. The problem is that I have one pc with a huge hard drive that I usually store all my photos, music, videos, etc. on. I am moving into a new house and would ideally like to have a single server with tons of storage that I could keep my music, photos, etc. on to be accessed by all of my computers, pc or mac. I don't want to keep filling up each hard drive on my computers with random things, I want them all organized in a central location that all of my applications (iTunes, iPhoto, etc.) can use. I know that PCs and Macs use different file systems and I'm sure that this is where the problem is. If it is possible, please let me know how it is done. Thanks!

Hello jamison84
There should be no problem sharing your huge hard drive with your Mac or sharing your Mac's hard drive with your PC. I do it all the time. It's true that Macs and PCs use different file system formats by default but that is only a problem if you want to move the physical hard drive from one computer to the other.
Maybe you could be a little more precise about your issue?

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