Quark (Mac) files fry on NT Server

[Rlah]

This may be a little out this forum's league but I thought to try my question. We use Mac and PC versions of Quark and store (and use) files on NT Server using PC-MACLAN. The PCs don't have a problem, but the Macs tend to have their files get fried after using them awhile - we can't even recover them... have to rebuild from scratch. (We don't have problems with our Mac PageMaker files on NT server...)
Anyone else using this setup and having problems?

 

[techleo]

Well Rlah, I'd like to get some additional information for you on this issue, though I have some suggestions which you may find helpful as well.

* Are you facing problems in opening MAC files after shifting them to NT Server using PC-MACLAN?

(as a workaround I'd suggest you to try making a QX document in Mac and save it in the local MAC hard-disk. After that try opening the file on the same MAC. If it works fine then try opening it on other MACs / windows using PC-MACLAN.)

* Are you facing problem while opening MAC files on Windows platform?

Please write back with the answers to the above questions and the results of these tests, and I'll be glad to continue assisting you.

Regards,
TechLeo

~' Outline your Ideas '~

 

[nadesj]

Hi, I have 50 macs and 4 PC's I turned on services for mac on the NT server and since moren then 4 years we never ever had problems with quark files getting corrupted, except if a users computer crashes and could not write to the server in time.

Maybe there is a reason you have to use PC-Maclan instead of services for macintosh, then I can not help you.

Greetings,

Nadesj

 

[Rlah]

Sorry for the veerry long delay in responding to TechLeo and Nadesj.
The response from nadesj threw me - I am not an expert on NT Server so I poked around on our Server (NT 4.00) that was installed by an employee who is no longer with us. We are *not* running 'Services for Macintosh'. We are only using PC-MACLAN's file server. Do you suppose if we were to remove PC-MACLAN (on the Server only) and add 'Services for Macintosh' that our problems with the storage of Quark files would go away? Perhaps this is obvious by the report from nadesj. But I am loath to change our setup since we have been using it for over a year now with no significant problems with our Adobe products on the Macs. And as I said before, I am not an NT expert.

I suppose that since I am not an NT Server expert, we should try eliminating the NT server machine and use a peer PC (WinXP Pro) as a PC-Maclan server to end the dependence on a complicated domain-based network. What does nadesj think? Is the NT Server setup vastly superior? (It did solve a nightmare of problems when trying to use a shared Mac harddrive for graphic file storage)

(We have 4 Macs, 8 PCs of which 4 are running PC-Maclan.)