Just got asked by a friend if I could help sort out his office network. its a small office, 1 router, 1 hub, 4 PCs, 3 MACs and 2 printers.
The way its currently set up is there's 2 workgroups; a PC one and a MAC one. each workgroup has a shared printer connected to one of the computers.
To be honest I have very limited MAC experience but I don't think it should be a problem. The one thing I can anticipate is that there will be problems with shared folders because of NTFS but they have plenty of 1TB external HDs so formatting them to FAT32 could work as far as a common storage place.
As for the printers I have no clue but again I don't think this is a huge problem and I reckon getting a small standalone printer server could help.
Can anyone please offer advice, comment, help?
Thanks!
-Alex
The way its currently set up is there's 2 workgroups; a PC one and a MAC one. each workgroup has a shared printer connected to one of the computers.
To be honest I have very limited MAC experience but I don't think it should be a problem. The one thing I can anticipate is that there will be problems with shared folders because of NTFS but they have plenty of 1TB external HDs so formatting them to FAT32 could work as far as a common storage place.
As for the printers I have no clue but again I don't think this is a huge problem and I reckon getting a small standalone printer server could help.
Can anyone please offer advice, comment, help?
Thanks!
-Alex