Determining if a server is a Windows Server product, or just shared drives

[Mark Carson]

I asked this on March 7 and got a reply of a product name, but I accidentally
deleted it and now even after a reset, my newsreader (Hogwasher for Mac)
pulls back only from 2014 and older . . . so, my apologies for asking again.

Our company is mixed Mac and Windows environment, and has a huge number of
"servers"; I put that in quotes because I don't know if they're using
"Windows Server" or just a bunch of Windows machines with "shared" drives. Is
there a way I can tell . . . at least for the particular drive our department
uses?

I ask for two reasons: One is that it is abysmally slow. The other is that I
copied a Mac font with resource fork to the server and it came up zero bytes.
I thought when Windows broke a Mac font it created a file _fontname that was
the old resource fork, that was normally hidden because it started wth an
underscore, but I did not see one.

I don't know of support of Mac files is a setting or how it's normally
enabled.

Anyway, any ideas what I can look for?

[Auric__]

Post by Mark Carson
I asked this on March 7 and got a reply of a product name, but I
accidentally deleted it and now even after a reset, my newsreader
(Hogwasher for Mac) pulls back only from 2014 and older . . . so, my
apologies for asking again.
Our company is mixed Mac and Windows environment, and has a huge number
of "servers"; I put that in quotes because I don't know if they're using
"Windows Server" or just a bunch of Windows machines with "shared"
drives. Is there a way I can tell . . . at least for the particular
drive our department uses?
I ask for two reasons: One is that it is abysmally slow. The other is
that I copied a Mac font with resource fork to the server and it came up
zero bytes. I thought when Windows broke a Mac font it created a file
_fontname that was the old resource fork, that was normally hidden
because it started wth an underscore, but I did not see one.
I don't know of support of Mac files is a setting or how it's normally
enabled.
Anyway, any ideas what I can look for?

In the future, try digging through Google Groups for your deleted threads.
The one you're referring to is here (watch the wordwrap):

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!
topic/microsoft.public.windows.server.general/X8OqXI-X0ns

To summarize, I suggested nmap:

https://nmap.org/book/man-os-detection.html