[Techtalk] Samba servers and mixed platform networks

[Betty Johnson]

I am doing a consulting job with a firm that is running a file server 
using Red Hat Linux 7.2.

The office is a workgroup and has Windows machines and Macintosh machines.

Samba seems to work fine with the Windows machines, as it was designed to 
do.

Netatalk seems to work fine with the classic Mac machines using Max OS 9.2 
or lower, as it was designed to do.

The problems start with Mac OS X.  They keep getting disconnected from the 
server. They cannot open files directly from the server, they need to 
transfer to their desktops first. 

I am not all that familiar with Macintosh but I thought that OS X was 
supposed to be so great because of the Samba technology built-in. I guess 
that will be fine for connecting to Windows machines. However, should I 
be using Samba here? Someone I know suggested I should look into NFS 
rather than Samba.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated, and thanks.
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Betty Johnson