SMB and EPS Files (all files have .eps extensions)

HI All,
We've turned off Appleshare on our Microsoft SBS Server and have all our mac clients connecting via SMB - previews of folders within apps is now much much faster and we can now have longer file names.
However, all of our eps images are screwed. They all have file extensions but Illustrator cannot import them or re-link them. If we open them in Photoshop and re-save them, then Illustrator can link to them.
But we have thousands of eps images and using a batch process action is painful as Photoshop can't determine the difference between a vector eps and a photoshop eps before it opens them (as far as we can tell) - so we have to manually choose which eps files to open.
It would be easier and safer if we could just fix whatever is wrong with the server - does anyone have any suggestions?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers

"It would be easier and safer if we could just fix whatever is wrong with the server - does anyone have any suggestions?"
Um, turn Appleshare back on.
No, seriously, though, it's this Microsoft "Services For Macintosh" (aka Appleshare) feature that allows your Macs to connect to the server and "see" the files on it properly. Let's take an .eps file as an example. On the Mac, the single file contains a resource fork-based preview icon, the data fork holding the EPS data, a file type of 'EPSF' (EPS file), and a creator code of 'ART5' (Adobe Illustrator). Ordinarily, a PC-formatted disk only has room for, and understands, the data fork information and the filename; the rest would be lost if it wasn't dealt with in some way. The way Microsoft's "Services For Macintosh" deals with it then, is that, when a Mac writes a file to the server over the network, what would be a single Mac file, is split up into 4 separate NTFS "streams". One stream is the main one, which contains the data fork information and filename. The other three hold the small amount of special "Mac" information.
Now, if you have the server up and running as SMB, and the Mac connects to the server as SMB, you will only see one of the parts/streams of the original file. The special Mac information that's saved in the other 3 streams isn't combined with the primary stream to make the file "appear" properly, like it does when you have Microsoft "Services For Macintosh" running and connect the Macs to the server over AFP.
I can gather that performance with the Microsoft "Services For Macintosh" is relatively poor compared to that of SMB. If you'd like to switch over to SMB, you can carefully follow the following procedure to make the switch over.
Let's say your sever has 40 GB of files on it. At the moment, if you connect your Mac to the server over SMB, the files appear improperly. So, instead, find a Mac with a lot of free space on the local hard drive, and connect to the server over AFP (and have the server running AppleShare/Services For Macintosh), so that the files "appear" properly. From the Mac, copy all of the 40 GB worth of files over to the Mac's local hard drive. Then disconnect the Mac from the server. Adjust the server so that it is no longer running AppleShare/Services For Macintosh, and from the same Mac, connect to the server over SMB. Again, if you look at the original files on the server, they will appear improper; this is normal. From the Mac, create a new folder on the server, separate from the original folder holding the original 40 GB worth of files. Name it something like "Server Files (SMB)". Then, from the Mac, copy the 40 GB worth of files that you saved to the local hard drive into that "Server Files (SMB)" folder on the server. After you've finished copying them and you look at them from this Mac, you'll notice that these files should appear "correctly".
Now, if you continue to have the AppleShare/Services For Macintosh shut off, and you connect other Macs to the server (via SMB), they should be able to see the files in the "Server Files (SMB)" folder correctly. Basically, you would no longer use the original 40 GB of files, and instead, use the ones inside the "Server Files (SMB)" folder, which will appear properly to the connected Macs.
Hope this helps....
Dual 2.7 GHz PowerPC G5 w/ 2.5 GB RAM   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

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