External network drive MAC and PC

[nailsthatrust]

I posted this in peripherals forum and not luck; anyway...

Im having a hard time finding a compatible external network drive that can be shared/accessed by both MACs and PCs. Anyone have a suggestion? Must have a network interface, NO usb/firewire and NO usb/airport extreme solutions please.

~TIA

 

[Kaido]

Would you be open to building your own? I recently built a NAS using a PC computer and some hard drives. FreeNAS is very easy to install and manage:

http://www.freenas.org/

All you need is an old computer and a big hard drive!

 

[Nothinman]

Any of them should work fine since both Windows and OS X support SMB.

 

[manly]

I haven't used it myself, but it supports both SMB & AFP:

http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10216

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Just make sure when you connect with the mac you go to

Go > Connect to Server > for the server name type smb://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and then connect. As long as the device supports samba you are good

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Just make sure when you connect with the mac you go to

Go > Connect to Server > for the server name type smb://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and then connect. As long as the device supports samba you are good

In other words, CIFS browsing kinda sucks. ;(

 

[Nothinman]

In other words, CIFS browsing kinda sucks. ;(

That goes without saying.