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I have a friend that works at a company which is in the print media business and the entire staff uses Macs by decree. They also use OSX Server for common offic
by munchhausen 15y ago
I have a friend that works at a company which is in the print media business and the entire staff uses Macs by decree. They also use OSX Server for common office needs like file-sharing and VPN, probably because it's the path of least resistance - they can afford to have their IT support staff trained only on Mac OSX, don't have to struggle with potential MacOSX <-> Samba interoperability issues, etc..
(Interestingly, their web-servers are Linux boxes, run by contractors.)
It is my understanding that this is a pretty common scenario as far as OSX Server use cases are concerned.
- teilo 15y agoI can understand this, but only in shops that don't have on-staff Linux people. My company is rather Mac heavy, but we run Linux fileservers. Way more bang-for-the-buck. That said, there are still problems: poor AFP performance when fetching directory listings from a large filesystem, and the necessity of using resource-fork-aware mv,rm,mkdir, etc., commands when on the Linux shell, in order to preserve metadata and resource forks.
- duskwuff 15y ago> … and the necessity of using resource-fork-aware mv,rm,mkdir, etc., commands when on the Linux shell, in order to preserve metadata and resource forks. What still uses resource forks? I can't speak for your company, but the only files with resource forks I still have around are historical curiosities. Modern OS X apps generally don't use them at all.