SMB, CIF, MSHOME, etc - 2 PCs + One Mac

I have a Mac dual G4 with OSX 10.4.4 connected to two PCs, each with Windows XP SP2, via ethernet. I would like to make one entire volume "Giant" available to the PCs for read/write.
I would also like to have the entire "C:" volumes on both PCs to be available to each other and to the Mac as well.
I am sorry, but there are 10,000 ways to set this up and I don't have a clue as to how to do it. There is "cif" and "smb" and "\\G4\" and MSHOME and Network Group and so many bits of stuff now that my machines are a real mess.
I have spent days (literally) messing about with this.
What I have tried to do does not allow me to go to either PC, and play QuickTime files that are on the Mac "Giant" disk. (QuickTime 7.0.4 is installed on both PCs and the Mac)
Also, on one of the PCs, when I open a Mac folder, it takes ages for the Mac folder to open on the PC desktop.
Also, when I use Macromedia Director from the PC to work on a project & files which live on the Mac, this used to work via Thursby's Dave system which I no longer have.
There must be (please help) in your opinion, a "best way" (SMB, CIF, etc) to set up such a small network.

Anyone have any recommendations as to which PC-scheme is best to use? Fastest? Most efficient? Most reliable?

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The designer will NEVER work on both PCs at once. We already own a license for CS4 Mac and several CS4 Win, but find unfair to have to buy an additional CS4 Win just for this case. If it was another Mac, we could do the install as long the the 2 installations are never used simultaneouslly.
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Well, as you know, you can install on up to two systems of the same platform, so long as you dont use them at the same time...
But section 2.10 of the Adobe CS4 licensing agreement (section 2.11 for CS5) is pretty clear that you can't mix-and-match across platforms.
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[Short Version
Problem:
Need to move photos from G4 ibook to Intel macbook. Both run 10.5, so I assume iphoto 09. I don't know, because I don't use iPhoto. I use photoshop.
I would be happy to settle for extracting image files that can be imported into the new computer... but this process seems to fail each time.
attempted solutions:
copy "iPhoto Library" from pictures folder to hard drive, import on new computer.]
Detailed version:
I'm sure this has been asked before, as people tend to upgrade computers from time to time.
However, I've searched the boards and google for a half hour or so with mixed results.
A friend of mine has an old G4 ibook that she has recently replaced with a new intel macbook. Both run Leopard.
She would like to get rid of the G4, but can't figure out how to move her iPhoto library (or even the pictures without albums, etc.) from one mac to another.
She attempted to copy the iPhoto library in the G4 to an external drive, then attempted to import the library into the new macbook. This didn't work, files show up in the database, but will not open. They appear to be .jpg files, or at least have that extension.
My suggestion was that she use the File > Export command, but she can't seem to get that to work either. I'm not sure if she selected the correct options, both during export from the old system and import from the new system.
Another option that we haven't tried is to "Option + start iPhoto" trick, similar to my current iTunes setup (home LAN vs away) to access two libraries. To specify, holding option while launching iphoto then selecting the old iPhoto library that has been copied to an external.
Has anyone had success moving photos from one mac to another?
thanks in advance for the help.

1 - OS version and iPhoto versions have little to do with each other - OS X 10.5 will run iPhoto 4, iPhoto 5, iPhoto 6, iPhoto '08 and iPhoto '09 - you have to look at the program and see what version it is
2 - If you move the entire iPhoto library intact as a single entity between the same version of iPhoto or to a newer version everything is automatic - you can not go backwards (iPhoto '08 can not read an iPhoto '09 library)
3 - you can always select the photos and export them (file menu ==> export)
4 - you can get the originals by right clicking (control clicking) on the iPhoto library and selecting show package contents (iPhoto '08 and '09 - not knowing the version involved makes this much more difficult) and copying the originals folder and moving it
Has anyone had success moving photos from one mac to another?
Thousand (probably millions) of people - if you know the versions involved you just drag it over and launch iPhoto
Another option that we haven't tried is to "Option + start iPhoto" trick, similar to my current iTunes setup (home LAN vs away) to access two libraries. To specify, holding option while launching iphoto then selecting the old iPhoto library that has been copied to an external.
This does not copy a library - it repoints iPhoto to a different library if the version are compatible (and may convert it to a newer version)
Basically you have not described the most critical piece of information - the iPhoto version on each computer
LN

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I set up a test that fails. There are three computers
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Both Win2K and Linux export some SMB/CIFS shares
The Mac can "see" the Win2K shared files but when the Mac tries to connect to the Linux server the finder hangs and has has to be killed. Going to a terminal on the Mac and I type "smbclient -L <Linuxsevername> I see all the services on the linux machine. So I try "smbclient //rabbit/wsfiles/" (Where the names rabbit and wsfiles where cut and pasted from the smbclient -L output.) and I get an "Invalid network name" error. Yes, I have cnnectivity to "rabbit", ping, ssh, X11 and FTP work fine
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Linux Samba must be working because I can access the shares from Win2K. Mac must be working because it can access shares from the PC. So I can argue that nothing could be broken but clearly something is. I have many years experiance with UNIX but have avoided PCs and PC networking.
Anyone have a list of things I can check?

Hi C JAbertson, check the logs in /Applications/Utilities/console see if they provide any clue to why.You are using SMB://rabbit/wsfiles/ format in the go to window? Have you got SMB enabled in Directory Access?
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There was a suggestion out here recently to disable Bonjour's Name Resolution...but connecting to the remote drive by IP address, instead of name.
Like so:
Connect by IP address, and it should bypass Bonjour name resolution. Hit command-K, and in the window that pops up type
afp://<ip-address>
where <ip-address> is the IP of the host you want to connect to. For example, if the IP address of the Aiport basestation hosting the drive is 10.0.0.1, you would type:
afp://10.0.0.1
This was a long fix for a slightly different problem http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=877397&tstart=0
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Badunit wrote:
I do not understand. Slashes in filenames are allowed in OS X. They even work fine over SMB in my experience when going from Mac to/from a Server, just not Mac to Mac (at least not in the case of the file I'm trying to transfer).
Slashes are not allowed in file names. The slash is the path delimiter. You can enter a slash in the filename of a file using the Finder. The Finder will silently translate the slash into a colon. If you look at the file using the Terminal, you will see that it is a colon. But try to use a colon in the Finder and it will refuse.
Samba probably has some similar feature as there are some Linux config files that use colons. Lion does not use Samba. It uses a new, proprietary SMB-compatible protocol built by Apple. It probably handles these files differently and that is why you are having trouble now.
No one should ever use colons in file names. Slashes should be impossible. How this software manages it is irrelevant. They should use neither. That is unambiguously wrong.

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Thanks! Seems to have worked.
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A happy ending, in any event.
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