Re: iMac Has Identity Crisis

In article <220320072252069347%star@xxxxxxx>, Davoud <star@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Thanks for taking time to reply. Well, of course, I can't turn off
Windows sharing because I /need/ Windows sharing. If you are correct,
this must be one hell of a bug because, let me emphasize it this time,
it *sometimes* identifies itself on the network as a Windows share.
Most of the time it looks to other Macs like a garden variety Mac
share. Furthermore, there are six other Macs on the network with
Windows sharing enabled and only this iMac exhibits the described
behaviour. Works either way, but still...

Yes, that is normal behavior; I've seen it many times.

If you have a Mac set up as a file server, and you have both Apple (AFP)
and Windows (SMB) sharing turned on, there is no way to predict how
another Mac will "see" the server. If you use the Network browser, you
will sometimes "see" it as an AFP server and sometimes as an SMB server,
depending on which method of discovery succeeds first.

This is one of the many reasons I *never* use network browsing, and
always connect to a file server by using Go->Connect to Server and
entering the IP address of the server. By doing this, I can tell the Mac
how to connect (AFP or SMB) by using afp://the.ip.adress or
smb://the.ip.address.

And yes, it matters how you connect; the server handles files with
resource forks differently for AFP and SMB. If you connect via SMB, copy
a file with a resource fork to the server, and then connect via AFP, the
file many not behave as you expect.

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