Macintosh connectivity

[MasterRacker]

I am in a situation where we just acquired a company. One of the users in this company is doing techinical documentation on a Mac. We are a pure Windows shop as is our parent company. The Mac user needs to ba able to store files on the Win2000 server I recently installed there.

I can install Macinstosh services for Windows on the server so he can see it but, if I do that, I risk losing my parent company's support of that entire server (no just the Mac) since they have a very firm "no Mac support" policy.

Does anyone know of a client-side only product for a Mac that would allow it to do domain authentication and read/write shared NTFS volumes with no changes at all being made on the server side?

I've heard of a product called "Dave" but from what I understand, that is for peer to peer connectivity not domain based authentication. Looking for other options.
Jeff
masterracker@hotmail.com

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[Zelandakh]

You could cheat and put softwindows or equivalent on the Mac. Then he could fire up Windows on the Mac and copy the documentation to the server.

Other options - zip drive transfer to a DOS formatted disk and then use a PC with a zip drive. Or email! Dial up from the Mac to the Net sending email to your normal server.

 

[CitrixEngineer]

If you already have a MetaFrame server you could load up the ICA client for MACs...

Hope this helps - good luck!

 

[MacFaza]

Hi!
The other software emulation option is VirtualPC from Connectix, where you can run Windows 9x, or perhaps, DoubleTalk from Connectix, could let you join the Mac in the MS Network, as Dave lets you, but i trust in Connectix.
Gustavi

Gustavo Faza
gfaza@usa.net

 

[Guest_imported]

There's a commercial product called "MacAdministrator" which allows authentication against anything that can run "Afpvols" Eg: anything that can offer Mac shares.

This means your Win2k domain could offer theses services and you could authenticate directly against it. You can also map shares as part of the logon for the Mac's. The only thing you'd need as an extra would be for one Mac to act as a MacAdministrator Server. This can be done by a crappy old Mac (you've probably got one around - we currently use a PowerMac 7300 with 32Mb of RAM but we only chose that because we didn't have anything lesser spec'd)

My email address is s.fennell@its.unimelb.edu.au if you have any further questions. The company that makes the product is hi-resolution and their on the web with full documentation.

Hope this helps.
Stephen.

 

[kevdog]

There is another product on the market we are using to authenticate our Macs to the NT Domain. It is called DoubleTalk from Connectix. When logged in, user can access shares through the "Chooser" from NT servers accross whatever domain(s) they have user permissions on.