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Has anyone upgraded a Mac Server to Leopard (10.5.3) (intel based G5) and kept Quark 6.52 on individual work stations with any success? I was hoping to upgrade my server but after reading some of these posts, I am not so sure. I am the only person right now who has a Leopard G5 intel based Mac running Quark 6.52 and am experiencing problems saving to our current server (G4 Mac Server running 10.3.9). All of the other individuals run on Tiger w/Quark 6.52 and save to open from the server w/no problems. Any advice out there???? TIA!

No experience, but I'd bet that your problems are related to the fact that the Mac you are on is using Leopard, not the server. That's where the problems have been. I don't see where upgrading the server would have an effect on Macs running Tiger and XPress 6.x. But, then no one has reported any issues and again, I've not had any experiences on that.

I have no experience with Leopard based servers but IMO I would not expect things to work too well. Having already seen plenty of posts appearing here about issues with 6.5.2 on Leopard (which it was never developed run on) I think the last release of Tiger is about as far as were going to be able push it. We upgraded our xserve to Tiger because of the large speed gains quite some time before migrating the user macs. That said we still left it until several dot releases had been out before doing so. At this early stage of Leopard you are going to have to do some research but I would not expect too many people to be using it at present. If you do make the leap of faith then have it backed up just in case you find the need to revert back.

 I'm hoping to put this combo in here and wasn't worried until I read this, I think as long as you don't work directly off the server you'd be fine.

As Erik says, all the probs seem to be trying to run quark on Leopard workstations, I don't think its even worth trying v6.5 on Leopard, certainly Quark are not going to work on making it compatible. I'd try with quark7.31, make your decisions and maybe take advantage of the free upgrade to quark8.  Snow Leopard may well be here before it's bug free.

If it makes you feel any better I've currently got Tiger Panther and OS9 workstations all talking to PCMacLan running on a WindowsNT Server and although its really hopeless and slow it doesn't have probs opening and saving quark files over the network (not that I ever do that of course)

We have cat6 gigabit ethernet with managed switches connected to our xserve. Speed is not so much of a problem but I still tut-tut users who open/close files directly off the server. I doubt Leopard will do much to sway me on this.

Its those users who add fonts from the server to Temporary with Suitcase then leave it overnight , or go on holiday for a week or two, then wonder why their Mac has problems.

Glenn, don't get me going on fonts… We do have suitcase server but I've never got it out of the box. Users would still insist that fonts that are on a free CD or off the net are much better than the ones we paid £K's for. If I had a pound for each time I had to sort font related issue I would have retired some time ago.

larsen67:

We have cat6 gigabit ethernet with managed switches connected to our xserve.

 

Can you feel my jealousy from over there?

Cat5 with a 10/100 network and SBS 2003. Only the server and a few Macs/PCs have 1000. But no Cat6 cables and only a 10/100 switch. Ah, poor me..... 

you don't actually need cat6 for Snow Leopard :)

"Can you feel my jealousy from over there?" Ah but your internet speeds and prices blow us this side of the pond into the hedgerows Eric… I would like to switch on the VPN so that we could do some work from home (fuel prices are crippling) but doubt its going to work well enough. Yet another thing on the to do list.

Ah yes. Our internet speed. So now we are capable of speeding along at about 20 percent of what a T-base 100 LAN can give us. Yea!

I'd much prefer the speed they are getting in Japan.