Networking
Hello. New to the forums. I am looking for some leads to help topics or books or whatever. Im not new to Macs but I have never bothered to do what Im trying to do as Ihave only had 1 machine until now. What Im trying to do is Make 1 network with a windows file server running windows server 2003. This is also my exchange server. I now have a few macs and I would like them to be able to have acess to the file server as well as a partition I set up for Time machine. IM having issues with permissions of the macs reading existing files. Im not opposed to setting up a Mac server if it is recommended for file servers and use the PC just for exchange but that should be the last resort. Im even having a few problems with my older G4 and a new Macbook with 10.5 being able to open files on my G4. I know its a permission issue but IM not sure how to best fix the problem. Having to never worry about networks with cross platform or even just Macs Im clueless. Is there a nice book or e-book that can guide me though the best practices of setting up a network that works seamlessly? I have also searched the apple.com usergroups but am not finding any info on using a server for time machine backups. Everything seems to point toward using external drives. Is it not possible to use a empty partition on the server? My Time Machine is not reading any devices to backup to.
Thanks for all the help in these matters
Thanks for all the help in these matters