Adding Mac OS X user to Server

[rshandy]

We are somewhat newbies in configuring our server. We have 6 windows computers on our 2000 server network, and we need to add a Mac OS X user. I am hesitant to add him as I need this server to be very stable and our resources are thin (namely, just me).

However, we need for him to have access to the server and clients (and vise versa). The Server needs to perform scheduled backups on his Mac, and be incorporated in the exchange server for email (second step) as well.

Could someone guide us !!! the dos and and donts as well.

Thanks

 

[swabs]

for server access from MAC: add the appletalk protocol to the file server and your MAC user will be able to access the server shares either through appletalk or the built-in smb client.
The windows 2000 server can't back up the MAC itself, but if you have the MAC user save his data on a mapped drive that actually exists on the 2000 server, you can use NTBackup to back-up those files.
From My experience the newer MACS do a good job interacting with windows.

 

[rshandy]

As you referring to the "services for Macintosh" software that available on the win2000 server CDs?

Will I use 1 license for the Mac? I would like to set him up as an smb client, rather than using appletalk - Would I have better control of his access with an smb client rather than apple talk, or doesn't it matter.

The way I've setup the pc's, I use the setup wizard to generate a floppy. I obviously can't do this with the Mac -Do I then have to manually configure his Mac? Is there documentation available to do this?