Determining whether it's a true "server"

[Mark Carson]

Our company is mixed Mac and Windows, 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
Our company is mixed Mac and Windows, 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?

If you're allowed to install programs, you could try nmap, which includes
remote OS detection in its bag of tricks:

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