Use Prinergy Administrator's Network File Shares Configuration to set up or change the Mac file-sharing protocol of Prinergy and files on job or input volumes.

Prerequisites

• All Prinergy server and client computers must be updated to the current Prinergy version.
• All Mac client computers must be running supported versions of Mac OS X / macOS.
• File shares must be created before you can define or convert the file-sharing protocol.

1. Close all files.
   Open files will not be converted and, therefore, will not have resources.
2. Stop all archiving, purging, and retrieving activities:
   • If you use the Prinergy Rules-Based Automation (RBA) software and an enabled rule set uses the Archive/Retrieve JTP or Purge JTP, quit Prinergy to prevent the rule set from executing.
   • If you do not quit Prinergy, stop the Archive/Retrieve JTP or Purge JTP. Both JTPs are located on the Prinergy primary server or a secondary server.
3. In Prinergy Administrator, select Tools > File Shares for Prinergy to display the Network File Shares Configuration dialog box.
   The left pane displays the current file shares, indicating whether each file share can be used for job home and whether it is using the AFP or SMB file-sharing protocol.
   

   Note: AFP is not qualified with Prinergy Workflow. 

4. In the File Shares section, select all the volumes that you want to change to SMB with named forks.
5. To allow the file share to be used for job home, select Share can be used for job home.
6. Select Server Message Block (SMB) / Common Internet File System (CIFS), and select Named Forks.
7. If you have a job volume on a Windows server, enable SMB with named forks on each share to ensure that all Mac client computers will connect using SMB with named forks.
   
   1. From a Windows client computer, connect to each Windows share.
   2. In the root folder, create a file named t.txt.
   3. Open a command-prompt window, and change drives to the Windows share's root folder.
   4. Run the following command:
      ren t.txt .com.apple.smb.streams.on
8. File resource information is not converted when you change protocols. If you want to retain file resource information, use the Retaining File Resources procedure to retain file resources.
9. Perform any of the following actions:
   • To make the share folder visible in Workshop immediately, stop Prinergy and then start it.
   • If you already stopped Prinergy, restart it.
   • If you stopped the Archive/Retrieve JTP or Purge JTP, restart it.

File resource information is not converted when you change protocols. If you want to retain file resource information, use the Retaining File Resources procedure to retain file resources.
If you use integrated Preps on Mac client computers that are not in the same domain as the primary server, continue with Enabling Preps under SMB.