Hi All,

A question for the Guru’s round these parts

I have a Windows XP machine setup here in the office as a basic file server. I also have 4 Macs that use this server. How can I setup Tracks to run on my internal server so I can share it amongst my 4 mac users?

Please help!
18T

I’m not at all familiar with running XP machines as servers, but it should be possible. If you run Tracks on the file server machine, you should be able to access it from any other computer on the internal network. It would probably be best to test it using WEBrick first, but you’ll need to change the default IP address and port so that the Macs can access it. So, if the internal IP address of your XP machine is 192.0.0.1, you’ll need something like:

Then you’d visit http://192.0.0.1:3030/login on the Macs. If you get that working, it would give you much better performance to change over to lighttpd as a webserver.

To be fair, I do have an old G4 (running OSX 10.4.8) thats sat there running as a basic print server - would I be better installing Tracks on that perhaps? Would it be easier?

18T