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Moving from all Windows to mixed Windows/Mac landscape
Hi there, I currently access my Readynas 314 only from Windows-based machines. However as a photographer I am considering buying some Apple Macs which I will also want to connect to the network in ...
If you access the share over network and windows says this is NTFS, this is a mistake. Windows has no way to know which format is used.
If it was indeed NTFS, Mac wouldn't be able to write on it for example. If you extend the principle this would mean that Windows computers wouldn't be able to access to linux web servers.
Sharing involves a protocol, it can be AFP, SMB, HTTP, FTP... The only requirements are that both ends are compatible.
You can think of a telephone system. If you have the good number and the network is properly configured, you can reach the other person, but this is up to the other person to give you feedback. If the person needs to read something to you, you have no way to know if this person is reading from a book, a screen or even reading in your language. You just know that you can communicate and you try to speak the same language. That's exactly how protocols work, the NAS needs to be able to process the data and send it over network, Windows/Mac need to be able to receive it over network and to process it, the processing phase can be different on the NAS and on Windows/Mac. The protocol is only a way to communicate, not a way to store the data. The storing part is up to each operating system and remains internal.
If it was indeed NTFS, Mac wouldn't be able to write on it for example. If you extend the principle this would mean that Windows computers wouldn't be able to access to linux web servers.
Sharing involves a protocol, it can be AFP, SMB, HTTP, FTP... The only requirements are that both ends are compatible.
You can think of a telephone system. If you have the good number and the network is properly configured, you can reach the other person, but this is up to the other person to give you feedback. If the person needs to read something to you, you have no way to know if this person is reading from a book, a screen or even reading in your language. You just know that you can communicate and you try to speak the same language. That's exactly how protocols work, the NAS needs to be able to process the data and send it over network, Windows/Mac need to be able to receive it over network and to process it, the processing phase can be different on the NAS and on Windows/Mac. The protocol is only a way to communicate, not a way to store the data. The storing part is up to each operating system and remains internal.
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