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File copying, from OS X to Windows

Posted by Michael Dale on Fri, 29 Apr 2005 7:57 PM

If I get time tomorrow I am going to purchase tiger. So I decided to do a backup of my Mac to my Windows 2003 file server.

I have Windows sharing turned on for the Mac and am copying the files from the Windows system.

Currently the Mac cannot access Windows shares on a Server 2003 system because of the authentication used, I’m hoping tigers adds support for this. (Note that a Mac works happily with every other Windows OS).

There were a few problems copying files, mainly to do with permissions and the simple fact that the Mac file system (HFS+ if I remember correctly) is much more advanced than NTFS.

Although there were a few problems I was impressed with the way Windows handled the errors (of course Samba on the Mac translated most of the file structure differences into something Windows understands).

General Access Denied Error

Permissions of the current user do not have access to the file (above).

Unable to copy a symlink

Unable to copy a symlink

locked file

Locked file

permissions properties

General Permissions.

Advanced Permissions

Advanced Permissions


On Thu, 12 May 2005 at 9:42 PM, James wrote:

its cause you have cifs enabled. if you disabe cifs it should work :). Good luck


On Sat, 14 May 2005 at 2:00 PM, Michael Dale wrote:

No, no. I'm talking about copying FROM a mac to a Windows system, not the other way around.


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