Arno Kletzander wrote: There are many ways to go, some twisty, some straightforward: 1 There was a commercial Samba client named "Dave" for Mac OS. If you can find that, it will do the trick. Indeed, w2k server will share out AFS, but since you don't have that, you'll need another path. 2. If you're familiar with Unix, you might try a flavor of Linux on a machine that has a SCSI bus to which you could mount the drive. For example, if your w2k machine has a SCSI controller, you could mount the 7200's hard drive in it (or in an external enclosure), boot off a Live Linux CD, mount the w2k's hard drive with ntfs-3g, mount the OS 8 hard drive with hfsplus, and copy the data at will. If this is unavailable to you, you could also go with a commercial product such as: http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/ -- there are physical dangers here if you're not careful with the drive (static, dropping drive on the floor, miswiring it, damage from a broken external case, etc.) as well as soft dangers here (you might accidentally damage the OS 8 hard drive by writing to it, so be sure you know which drive is which and mount everything read only until you're 100% sure, etc.) 4. Other choices, get a machine that runs OS X, perhaps a good old G4 with large hard drives, which will allow you to share both AFS and CIFS. 5. Find an old copy of Netware 4.x and build yourself a Netware file server, these too work as a nice file server. (sigh, brings back old memories of my misspent youth :-) 6. Install NetATalk on a Linux machine and use it as a server (I've not played with this myself, so I've no idea what it does to resource forks) 7. Turn on an ftp daemon on one of the machines - you could install Cygwin on the w2k machine and run one of the ftpd's on there, or you can find a windows ftp server (i.e. http://www.warftp.org/ ) that will work on w2k workstation - if I remember right, there's a half crippled version of IIS on there which acts as a personal web server - perhaps like it's bigger brother it may have an ftpd. Or if that's not available, use a third machine that does have an ftpd (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenVMS, etc.) as a go-between. There are ftp clients for the Mac, and it wouldn't surprise me if you could find an ftpd for OS 8 either ( http://www.pure-mac.com/ftp.html ) 8. You could use an scp/ssh client such as NiftyTelnet http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jonasw/freeware/niftyssh/ - which might work on OS 8 (I think it may want OS 9 though) to copy the data over scp to a server that has an sshd (there is one for windows - http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/ ) 9. For 3GB of data, the worst thing you could do is go over a serial port with a terminal program such as ZTerm on one end and HyperTerminal on the windows end. It's horrible because at most you'll be able to go at 56Kbps and will take forever. 10. You could go with one of the sneakernet paths: some sort of removable drive such as ZIP, Jazz, CD-R, etc. but you'll need to somehow break up the data into pieces and use a common file system (ISO9660 and its variants for the CD's, FAT16 for the windoze friendly ones, etc.) A Bit of warning: All of these paths to transferring data may suffer from the issues with the metadata and the resource forks, so the safest thing to do is to archive resource/metadata sensitive files (Applications, INIT's, etc) with a Mac specific archiver such as StuffIt. (There is an unstuff command for Unix available in plain C source code, there is also a closed source Windows version of StuffIt, so if you need to, you can get the data off out of them.) Some of the above paths have built in support for resource forks. w2k's server sharing. Netware's AFS sharing, an OS X machine, and possible others will allow resource forks and metadata to be stored and safely accessed again from a Mac, and allow the data forks to be accessed from PC's. Others, will not and you risk losing the data. So you really need to ask if that 3GB's worth of data depends on the resource forks or not.