Hi,
I have to share a dataset (2.5 TB) to apple and windows users.
I've read a lot of reports about such projects within the last weeks, all telling the same. Apple support of SMB is quite broken. No spotlight search, no indexing, not able to extract zip archives on a SMB share.
Those are the issues we also ran into with our enterprise NAS (Netapp).
I then found a how-to which shared the dataset through AFP and SMB simultaneously with freeNAS.
I have also read, that this is not recommended.
I know of some problems which can occur like different filename conventions and windows users which cannot access incorrectly named files.
But at the moment this seems to be the only solution for me.
Can you tell me if spotlight indexing and zip-extraction and so on will work over SMB with freeNAS?
Thanks in advance,
Clemens
I have to share a dataset (2.5 TB) to apple and windows users.
I've read a lot of reports about such projects within the last weeks, all telling the same. Apple support of SMB is quite broken. No spotlight search, no indexing, not able to extract zip archives on a SMB share.
Those are the issues we also ran into with our enterprise NAS (Netapp).
I then found a how-to which shared the dataset through AFP and SMB simultaneously with freeNAS.
I have also read, that this is not recommended.
I know of some problems which can occur like different filename conventions and windows users which cannot access incorrectly named files.
But at the moment this seems to be the only solution for me.
Can you tell me if spotlight indexing and zip-extraction and so on will work over SMB with freeNAS?
Thanks in advance,
Clemens