Help with simple plan design for Mac?

[caryophyllene]

My IT friend talked me into a FreeNas Mini for my small law office due to having both Macs and PCs on our LAN. It’s set up, but only as a typical office file server viewable by several users. It also doesn’t work for the Mac users because when Microsoft Word saves directly to the FreeNas, it creates all sorts of folders that don’t go away. This is apparently a known bug. As MS Word is critical for a law office, it’s a pretty critical bug that makes me want to sell the FreeNas and just go fully to the cloud.

However, if there is another way to use the FreeNas with a different front end on it, then maybe there is hope? I have only 3 computers that connect to the FreeNas by LAN, and he other 3 computers need to connect outside the office through remoting in through VPN. Would OwnCloud be another potential solution for all of the computers?

I’d be happy to pay to consult a FreeNas expert. Is there any such companies out there that could assist with the setup and implementation of a working system for me?

 

[Johnny Fartpants]

How are you mapping to the drive, SMB, AFP, WebDav?

 

[anodos]

My IT friend talked me into a FreeNas Mini for my small law office due to having both Macs and PCs on our LAN. It’s set up, but only as a typical office file server viewable by several users. It also doesn’t work for the Mac users because when Microsoft Word saves directly to the FreeNas, it creates all sorts of folders that don’t go away. This is apparently a known bug. As MS Word is critical for a law office, it’s a pretty critical bug that makes me want to sell the FreeNas and just go fully to the cloud.

However, if there is another way to use the FreeNas with a different front end on it, then maybe there is hope? I have only 3 computers that connect to the FreeNas by LAN, and he other 3 computers need to connect outside the office through remoting in through VPN. Would OwnCloud be another potential solution for all of the computers?

I’d be happy to pay to consult a FreeNas expert. Is there any such companies out there that could assist with the setup and implementation of a working system for me?

What version of Office are you using? If you don't mind, can you please send me a debug file by clicking "system"->"advanced"->"save debug" and attaching it to a private message?

Note: this is not offering support. If there's a bug regarding MS office support, it needs to be fixed.