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First unveiled at the Audio Engineering Society (AES) conference in early October, Digidesign on Wednesday announced that it is now shipping Pro Tools 7. more

[HumanJHawkins]

My office has Dual G5 editing stations (for ProTools) with a Windows Server 2003 to store the sessions on.
Currently, people have to copy the sessions down locally for editing, then copy them back up when finished. We would be much more efficient if we could just edit directly off of the server. (I am talking about editing sessions that have already been recorded, not actually recording directly to the server)
The errors we get in editing off of the server seem to indicate that data is lost along the way. I.e. like a resource fork getting chopped off by the SMB based (windows) file sharing.
First, does anyone know if there is a way to make this work over SMB, and/or if the new version enables this?
If not, does anyone know if it will resolve the issue to get Mac style file sharing enabled on the servers involved?
Thanks!

[hmurchison]

Sounds like you need to implement a SAN with a SAN Filesystem. That way you could have the editors working concurrently on the sessions with no file locking issues and right off a RAID array as well. I know it's expensive but in the end your productivity and TCO might justify the effort.