Actually, when you say "DOMAIN SERVER" is it because you want to use your directory for workstation access on the Mac??
File and Print Access ain't that bad... It's directory authentication that is a real pain in the butt for Macs, PLUS I have crashed my OS X systems completely and needed reinstallation when I didn't configure my LDAP stuff correctly. ~Alex -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Kha Do Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 11:29 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: MAC accessing Win2k Server That's not necessarily true. OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) has native support for SMB. Albeit that the client is not super-robust, you basically have 3 options. I'll go through each of them. 1) Native SMB support -Open Go, Connect to server, and type the following in the Server Address: smb://fullyqualifieddomainname - since your macs might not have the right dns stuff, you can't just do smb://fileserver, you have to do smb://fileserver.domain.com -It will ask you for a share to mount, and a username and password -You will see the share mounted on you desktop. The easiest way to use this is to navigate to the most commonly used folder and create an "alias" (Mac for shortcut) on the desktop by holding option, apple while dragging the folder. The icon should turn into a shortcut icon. The cool thing is that if you've unmounted the share and click on the alias, it automatically brings up the password box for you and remounts it. PRO: No installation of extra software on server or desktop CON: I've seen the smb client get a little buggy, can't print 2) Dave -Install it. PRO: good file and print access CON: installation of software, $$ 3) Install Mac File and Print services on your File server, use AFP instead of SMB -Get an updated User Authentication Module for your mac (MS UAM) at http://www.microsoft.com/mac/ -connect process is same as 1) PRO: stable, free CON: software on both the Mac AND the Windows server, Printing is NOT authenticated ~Alex -----Original Message----- From: Johnny Martinez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 10:15 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: MAC accessing Win2k Server If your using OS X it's a real pain. Here are you options: 1. The fast and easy way (get DAVE for Mac) 2. The slow and pain in the a$$ way (use the various networking apps in OS X) Network Monitor, Preferences/Networking, Apps/Utilities has a few other goodies too. I would also configure the SMB (Samba settings and get a WINS server running to help out too.) Good luck. OS X is harder to network than previous Mac OS's. OS 8/9 were very easy. J -----Original Message----- From: Weatherly, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 10:05 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: MAC accessing Win2k Server This isn't to complicated What OS are you using on the Macs? -------------------------------- Rob Weatherly -------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Duane Boudreau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 1:02 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: MAC accessing Win2k Server Hi All, Can anyone point me to info on getting a MAC to access a Win2k domain server and file server? TIA, Duane ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
