AFP versus SAMBA/CIFS ?

[dominicus]

Yes I'm using OES sp1 and having a relatively small office with 4 MAC users and 3-4 PC users I have been wanting to keep costs to a minimum.
I went the Nows/OES line from my small business suite 6.6 (Netware) mainly because of iFolder for MAC. At the time we used only iFolder for filesync.
Now the need is different - Our office needs to move all projectfiles to a stationary location that is a serverdrive or similar because of fileshares (be able to work on the same file at the same time from different machines).

The full NOWS is a bit pricey compared to SBS nows.

Otherwise I would have moved to a MAC server but I have learned to trust
Groupwise and never had any problems with it + that my PC users rely on iFolder for filesync.
Novell has always worked very well for me in the past, but the now so unstable AFP support on Nows has me thinking on alternatives.

To conclude:
Need AFP or some other fileshare for the MACs
and iFolder for my PC users
AND Groupwise for all of them.

DB

If I understand you correctly, you are using AFP on OES2SP1. With the soon to come OES2SP2, there will probably be some improvements to AFP support. However if you plan to move to NOWS SBE, you should be aware that you will loose most native MAC support and Aamba will indeed by the solution for file access. I'm however surprised about your choice of going NOWS SBE in an all MAC environment. That's really not a server platform that has been created with MAC clients in mind.