09-14-2007, 04:45 PM
> There used to be problems with transferring files over 4 GB over networks
> between Mac and PC. Has it been solved?
I'm not sure what you're referring to. There have been a lot of issues with large file transfers with Windows PC's, some relating to the file system, others relating to device drivers and caching problems, still others relating to flaws in Active Directory and most recently to bugs in Vista's drivers.
But that's what you get for dealing with Windows at all.
XP has no such notorious limitation that I'm aware of.
Vista does have a pervasive problem with slow or stalling transfers of large files... but then, networking speeds in Vista seem to run about 20% what they were in XP on average, so I wouldn't want to transfer large files to a Vista PC if I could avoid it... but it probably wouldn't be too bad if I could leave the copy going over night.
I suppose that I should have mentioned that it would probably go better if the PC is running XP SP2.
> between Mac and PC. Has it been solved?
I'm not sure what you're referring to. There have been a lot of issues with large file transfers with Windows PC's, some relating to the file system, others relating to device drivers and caching problems, still others relating to flaws in Active Directory and most recently to bugs in Vista's drivers.
But that's what you get for dealing with Windows at all.
XP has no such notorious limitation that I'm aware of.
Vista does have a pervasive problem with slow or stalling transfers of large files... but then, networking speeds in Vista seem to run about 20% what they were in XP on average, so I wouldn't want to transfer large files to a Vista PC if I could avoid it... but it probably wouldn't be too bad if I could leave the copy going over night.
I suppose that I should have mentioned that it would probably go better if the PC is running XP SP2.