Hi everyone. I mostly use PC's for my business and personal use, but I just got a Mac laptop to play with iPhone development for my business. I'm having many issues with the machine so far, but I wanted to ask about my main two problems here.
1) I don't keep any data locally on the Mac, or any machine I have for that matter. Everything is kept on external raid drives which are also auto backed up to other drives on a regular basis. The biggest problem I'm having with the Mac is that any time I visit any of these raid drive from the Mac, either my business raids or the personal ones, the Mac will create and leave files all over the place. The always start with a '.', and they get littered all over the raid drive. This is causing all kinds of havoc with our network.
The first issue this causes is that now every machine that accesses the network, be it a Popcorn Hour, Xbox 360, PS3, PC, or whatever, will now have these new files pollute the directory listings which makes media browsing a hassle. The huge problem though is that some of them are ruining my backups. I caught this late last night totally by chance when I saw that my business has not been backed up in a few days because one of these files, I believe it was called ".temporaryitems", or something like that, it had odd permissions on it and it would cause the backup to abort because the backup claimed I did not have permission to access said file. I tried deleting it but I can't do that either because of permissions.
So my big issue is how do I stop the Mac from creating files all over our network drives, and how do I have it delete all the ones it's created so far? This issue has really caused some major havoc with my home business since I'm a backup nut, but it's also messed it up for personal use, so I've banned the Mac from any network access until I can resolve this major problem.
2) My business involves playing back high definition videos, all in wmv format using VC-1 codec and web friendly parameters, so 1280x720 and around 2mbps. How do I get the Mac to play these? I've tried all the recommendations so far, including using VLC to play them, but when I play them over the network they all skip and stutter, again making the Mac kinda useless for use in my business which is really frustrating. All my other media playback devices play them just fine, including the previously mentioned devices like the Popcorn Hour C-200, PS3, 360, PC's, laptops, etc, even over regular wireless g.
I'm having many other problems, but the above two are the ones really killing me right now. I tried getting help at the Mac store but they didn't have any suggestions, so I appreciate any help I can get here. Thank you!
EDIT: The raid drives in use are Dlink DNS-343's in case it matters. I believe they are in SMB mode.
1) I don't keep any data locally on the Mac, or any machine I have for that matter. Everything is kept on external raid drives which are also auto backed up to other drives on a regular basis. The biggest problem I'm having with the Mac is that any time I visit any of these raid drive from the Mac, either my business raids or the personal ones, the Mac will create and leave files all over the place. The always start with a '.', and they get littered all over the raid drive. This is causing all kinds of havoc with our network.
The first issue this causes is that now every machine that accesses the network, be it a Popcorn Hour, Xbox 360, PS3, PC, or whatever, will now have these new files pollute the directory listings which makes media browsing a hassle. The huge problem though is that some of them are ruining my backups. I caught this late last night totally by chance when I saw that my business has not been backed up in a few days because one of these files, I believe it was called ".temporaryitems", or something like that, it had odd permissions on it and it would cause the backup to abort because the backup claimed I did not have permission to access said file. I tried deleting it but I can't do that either because of permissions.
So my big issue is how do I stop the Mac from creating files all over our network drives, and how do I have it delete all the ones it's created so far? This issue has really caused some major havoc with my home business since I'm a backup nut, but it's also messed it up for personal use, so I've banned the Mac from any network access until I can resolve this major problem.
2) My business involves playing back high definition videos, all in wmv format using VC-1 codec and web friendly parameters, so 1280x720 and around 2mbps. How do I get the Mac to play these? I've tried all the recommendations so far, including using VLC to play them, but when I play them over the network they all skip and stutter, again making the Mac kinda useless for use in my business which is really frustrating. All my other media playback devices play them just fine, including the previously mentioned devices like the Popcorn Hour C-200, PS3, 360, PC's, laptops, etc, even over regular wireless g.
I'm having many other problems, but the above two are the ones really killing me right now. I tried getting help at the Mac store but they didn't have any suggestions, so I appreciate any help I can get here. Thank you!
EDIT: The raid drives in use are Dlink DNS-343's in case it matters. I believe they are in SMB mode.