Questions about AFP and SMB network drives

Is there a major speed difference between the two? At my school I am given network drive space, and my drive seems accessibly via afp:// and not via SMB.
I transferred a 30MB file once and afp:// transferred at about 1 MB a second. This seemed about as fast as when I used OS 9 and connected to afp:// servers.
Also can one access a afp:// drive on a Windows 98 computer without third party software (PC MacLan)? The It director has been trying to help my Windows 98 laptop also gain access to my drive, but everything he has told me to try has failed. Perhaps because Windows 98 cant connect with Appletalk over TCP/IP servers.
Thanks for the help.
If this message belongs in another forum, please let me know.
John

I am on a T1 and using the ibooks network card.
Back in 2005 I was on a Performa 6360 and also used a network card (100 base T) on a T1.
Its strange why the ibook would be no faster than the performa for transferring files.
So can Windows 98 connect to afp:// servers?
john

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A few questions about setting up a network drive

Hello,
I have been trying setup a private server on my home network. I have a Netgear WNDR 3800 and have been trying to hook up my 2TB external drive to the router.
I have been trying to decide how I want to format the drive, and how many partitions I should use.
The reason I have a 2TB drive is because I needed a work space to create a image of a corrupt 500GB drive. The 500GB drive had my entire digital life on it, and it was almost lost. I dont want to encounter the same issue with a 2TB drive because at that point I feel like any issues would make it difficult for me to recover the data due to work space size issues. This is why I am thinking about using several partitions, but I am not sure what issues this might present.
As far as format goes; the router says it supports read/write with FAT 16/32, NTFS, EXT 2/3, and I know it works with HFS. Here are the things that I am trying to do with the drive. (in order of importance)
Use it as a Time Machine backup location for 1 possible more MBP's
As a media sever to stream downloaded movies and music to A/V reciever (Pioneer VSX-822) and possibly other devices on the network
Act as a temporary storage location to swap files between devices or operating systems
If possible not keep media on my computer and stream it from the network drive when I am home
And, thats all I can think of right now. If there is something else useful I am missing that would need special attention in setting up a network drive let me know.
So, I have had no problems getting the drive to connect and show up on the network when I use HFS. I have also been able to get multiple partitions to show up; been able to back up to different partitions; including time machine on one partition.
So here is where I am running into problems; the router bios allows you to enable a media sever. I believe the router tries to do something with DLNA. DLNA I believe allows for a similar functions to airplay and cloud for basically all compatible non apple products. I dont care if I use DLNA, or Airplay. I just want to be able to access my music library over the network without having to have my computer open, or my iphone on me..ect.
So I was wondering if anyone could help me out, or if there are any articles I should look at that I might have missed while I have been researching.
Edit: I am sorry if this is posted in the wrong section, I figured the best people to ask about filesystem compatability and ease of use was going to be the System software section

Hello,
I have been trying setup a private server on my home network. I have a Netgear WNDR 3800 and have been trying to hook up my 2TB external drive to the router.
I have been trying to decide how I want to format the drive, and how many partitions I should use.
The reason I have a 2TB drive is because I needed a work space to create a image of a corrupt 500GB drive. The 500GB drive had my entire digital life on it, and it was almost lost. I dont want to encounter the same issue with a 2TB drive because at that point I feel like any issues would make it difficult for me to recover the data due to work space size issues. This is why I am thinking about using several partitions, but I am not sure what issues this might present.
As far as format goes; the router says it supports read/write with FAT 16/32, NTFS, EXT 2/3, and I know it works with HFS. Here are the things that I am trying to do with the drive. (in order of importance)
Use it as a Time Machine backup location for 1 possible more MBP's
As a media sever to stream downloaded movies and music to A/V reciever (Pioneer VSX-822) and possibly other devices on the network
Act as a temporary storage location to swap files between devices or operating systems
If possible not keep media on my computer and stream it from the network drive when I am home
And, thats all I can think of right now. If there is something else useful I am missing that would need special attention in setting up a network drive let me know.
So, I have had no problems getting the drive to connect and show up on the network when I use HFS. I have also been able to get multiple partitions to show up; been able to back up to different partitions; including time machine on one partition.
So here is where I am running into problems; the router bios allows you to enable a media sever. I believe the router tries to do something with DLNA. DLNA I believe allows for a similar functions to airplay and cloud for basically all compatible non apple products. I dont care if I use DLNA, or Airplay. I just want to be able to access my music library over the network without having to have my computer open, or my iphone on me..ect.
So I was wondering if anyone could help me out, or if there are any articles I should look at that I might have missed while I have been researching.
Edit: I am sorry if this is posted in the wrong section, I figured the best people to ask about filesystem compatability and ease of use was going to be the System software section

Which is the better one, between AFP and SMB protocol for files' transporti

Hi,
I'm a newbie here and I have a question for MAC AFP protocol.
For files' transporting, MAC os has AFP protocol, and it also supports SMB protocol. Is there any difference between these two protocols?
Is the AFP protocol better than the SMB protocol , for files' transporting between two MACs, MACs and Windows,or two Windows?

AFP is preferred for Mac -> Mac transfers. It's the native Mac protocol and easiest to maintain.
Windows systems typically don't understand AFP so it's not an option for them. For Windows transfers you should use SMB.
The Mac can talk SMB, too, so if you had to choose only one, and you have Windows clients on your network, then SMB would be the way to go.
You are not limited to running just one, though. It's perfectly valid to have the server talk both AFP and SMB at the same time, letting each client use the protocol it prefers.

Problems copying to SMB network drive

In glancing at the forum posts, I see that most people are having problems with SMB network drives. I thought I would post my experiences and see if they might lend some insight into correcting the issues.
I recently purchased a Coolmax CN-350 NAS, which works as both a SMB and FTP server. It shows up on my list of Shared drives just fine in the sidebar, and I can connect to it just fine through the finder. However, copying to the drive produces a "The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “About Stacks.pdf” can’t be read or written.(Error code -36)" error. The item I copy (text file, movie, pdf, etc) shows up on the drive anyway, but it is empty. Nothing new so far, based on what I've read in the forums. I tried copying some files to the NAS drive via FTP and they seemed to transfer just fine. I also can copy files to the NAS via SMB using muCommander. Saving to the NAS from some applications that I've tried so far seems to work (TextWrangler, Pages, Preview) though not from others (QuickTime Player, Illustrator CS3, iTunes). I can't double-click to open the files I created, or moved to the NAS via FTP, but in all cases I've tried so far (movies, pdfs, text files) I can open them from within the application.
Copying from the NAS seems to work without any issues. Files copied over to the NAS via FTP will copy back to the Mac without any errors, and the copied files will open just fine when I double-click them on the Mac, with no information lost.
I've tried some of the solutions & workarounds proposed in the forums here (numerical passwords, logging into the directory directly rather than just attach the drive directly, etc) but from what I'm reading around here, the problem seems to be with the Finder and how it sees the SMB drive. As a side note, when I checked Console, the message it gave for when I tried to use the Finder to copy files to the NAS, it gave the following message:
"10/30/09 9:45:05 AM kernel smb_maperr32: no direct map for 32 bit server error (0xc0000161)"
I'm hoping that this might help someone more clever than I, or perhaps even someone working on 10.6.2 so that this issue can be resolved in the next update. I'd like to think that this isn't some sort of subtle sabotage on Apple's part to try and encourage people to buy Time Capsules; they are cool of course, but I really can't afford one just to make NAS easier. Hope someone can make use of this.

Pretty much same story here. After upgrading to Snow Leopard I could copy things from the SMB drive to my local drive, but not open them by double-clicking.
I also got the -36 error code when I tried to copy files from my local drive to the SMB drive. BUT until about a week ago, I was able to copy the files via the terminal but that stopped working this weekend, which was kind of strange.
I installed the .2 update tonight hoping that would fix it but it didn't. I looked in the console and spotted the SMB error. Searched on Google and this was one of just four results! But I did search for the whole log entry.
Anyway Joseph, if you do find a solution, please post it here and I promise to do the same.
Good luck!
J

A question about grub and USB

Hi All
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havent worked on any in a while
recent machines have been coupleof dell's , vaio & emachine
which dells do offer it at least the ones i tried , my laptop does(dell)
all home pc's are built by me which do offer to boot individual drives
what hp you getting it may tell in specs
are both discs sata? if so it might not offer this option with 2 drives of same interface
check your power supply alot of these preconfigured machines put cheap under reated power supplies in there
& will burn your motherboard i just replaced PS(250 watt) & mobo(845gvsr) in an emachines <cheap stuff<
i hope you researched the pc before buying ie : mobo, power supply are the biggest concerns
i find it much more benificial to build my own machine gives me peace at mind. the cost is sometimes more in $ but not always , your biggest expense is time researching hardware
if you live in usa the best places to start looking are bensbargains.net & pricewatch.com
i am not affiliated with either & niether sell the hardware they are just advertisers a place to buy
for costomized machines that i would trust is unitedmicro.com theyll asemble & test before shipping
i have gotten 2 machines so far from them with NO PROBLEMS with hardware (knock knock)
you may want to consider this in your next venture for pc

A few questions about MacBooks and Parallels Desktop.

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Basic question about storage and safety in iMovie '11

A very basic question about storage and safety:
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QUESTION:
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*Do you have any precautionary advice?* Should I do something in my iMovies '11 preferences? What?
In earlier years with iMovie '04 or '06 (cannot recall) I made many novice errors and ended up losing audio to my finished movie. I also lost footage.
This time around with iMovie '11 I don't to make such novice, ignorant errors.
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-L

Yes I'm sure it will work great for you.
The iFrame format is something Apple has come up with. The reason for its existence is unknown to me so I can only speculate. But it seems to me that Apple "invented" this format in order to have devices such as Ipod/Ipad/Iphone/Ixxx create clips that are editable on consumer hardware such as already mentioned devices but also standard Mac computers, without the need for format conversion.
iMovie converts most input formats during import, which takes a lot of time, and this need for conversion often comes as a surprise to most people new to home video editing.
iFrame has a resolution of 960x540 which is long way from the common standards of 1920x1080 and 1280x720. If your end target is YouTube however, this may not be too bad though. However if you intend to go with YouTube HD, you may find iFrame footage to look wrong since they are effectively upscaled to a higher resolution.
Technically iFrame uses the H.264 algorithm, a smaller frame size (960x540) and a rather low compression scheme. This will result in large files, but the plus side is that the files are ready for editing without the need for any conversion and iMovie will natively edit the files.

I have a Macbook Pro june 2011... I have 8GB ram but I only have 256mb VRAM... I've read some other questions about this and I realized... Why do I not have 560mb of VRAM since I have 8GB of RAM? Is there any way to get more VRAM to play games on steam?

I have a Macbook Pro june 2011... I have 8GB ram but I only have 256mb VRAM...
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Dear all,I'm a new one in sd.May be this is a very stupid question.But it did puzzle me for a long time.If any one can explain this question in detail and let me understand the concept,I will appreciate him/her very much.Thank you.

Hi,
You said that you are using the T.codes VK31 or VK32.
These transaction codes are used to enter condition records for standard condition types. As you can see a grid left side having all the standard condition types like price, discounts, taxes, frieghts.
Pl check using T.code VK11 OR VK12 (change mode)
Here you can enter the required condition type, in the intial screen. (like PR00, MWST, K004, K005 .....etc)
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You can select any table and press enter, then you can go into the screen in which you have all the field cataglogues you maintained for that table. For example you selected combination of Customer/Material (table 5) then after you press enter then you can see customer field on top, and material fields.
You can give all the required values and save the conditon record.
Hope this is clear.
REWARD IF HELPFUL.
Regards,
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1- .netrc file is in $HOME directory but i can't
access to this directory from java code. The
following line producesan Exception (directory
doesn't exists)
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Ok, thanks
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I'm running OS X server 10.5.8. unlimited license with only file sharing enabled.
When a large number of users (more than 7 or 8) try to log on the server at the same time, the server goes AWOL. A few users get on and that's it. When I check the server preferences, file sharing has turned off by itself. When I try to restart it, it just turns off again. After waiting a while, I can turn it on again, or it'll turn on again by itself after a good long while.
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When I check the server preferences, file sharing has turned off by itself. When I try to restart it, it just turns off again
That's clearly not normal. What do the logs have to say?
The users get on via afp. Would smb work better? What's the difference between the two?
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SMB was designed by Microsoft and is the native file sharing protocol in Windows.
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2) can I share oracle_home between ASM instance and database instance ? what is the best choice ?
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user4866039 wrote:
1) Do I need to have ASM instance running on each node ? ( most likely yes... but want to make sure )yes.
2) can I share oracle_home between ASM instance and database instance ? what is the best choice ?in 10g you can, in 11gr2 you cannot. and it might be better to seperate them because it will give you more flexibility with patching.
3) I'm planning to use shared disks for all files, all databases.... what are the pros/cons ?if you share your oracle_home you won't be able to do rolling updates. so i recommend to keep oracle_homes local.
4) what should be the installation procedure ? Meaning, first create ASM instance on each node, then install cluster software, build RAC databases...... can someone explain..follow the install guide for your respective version. for 10g you'd install clusterware first, then asm and database is last.
5) I believe RMAN is the only option for backup since I'm using ASM, correct ?pretty much. you could stop your database and dump the raw devices or use asmcmd/asmftp but rman is definitely the best choice
Bjoern

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I figured out how to connect Time Machine with a network drive (like LaCie Mini). It works great, the only thing is, everytime I restart the mac I need to re-connect manually to the server in order TM can run.
I wondered why OS X gives not the option to connect to certain servers AUTOMATICALLY when starting up?
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Well,
PLEASE can you tell us how you figured out how to backup to a network drive because Apple tech told me you could not do that!
To your question though, on those LaCie drives, you have to log in with a password, right? On the drives I have used with clients, although the password was filled in for me, we had to press OK every single time to actually connect to the drive... I could not bypass the login procedure on the drive, it had nothing to do with OSX. You might serve yourself well to see if LaCie can offer you a way to connect to the drive automatically?
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