John Kay
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Mac on a Windows Network - 2007/10/24 08:42
I would like to see you attach a mac to a windows netwok (AD based)-(Utilities>Directory Access>Active Directory) so when a user logs on there Home Directory appears on the Dock. This is possible. Also sharing printers and shared folders etc
see http://www.grouplogic.com/knowledge/PDFUpload/Info/ADHomeDirs.pdf
I think this would encourage users to "GO MAC" when considering new machines...maybe
I know nick this would be a nightmare to produce - But I think this would be very useful
thanks
John
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John Kay
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Re:Mac on a Windows Network - 2007/11/14 15:27
no one else intrested in this?
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Luc
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Re:Mac on a Windows Network - 2007/11/15 23:12
It is interesting, but not for me. I'm not a regular windows user and networking between mac and linux seems easy enough.
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Tony Sheppard
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Re:Mac on a Windows Network - 2008/01/14 21:31
I'm interested to see how they the folks do it ... as a follower of macenterprise I have now seen a few different things but would like to see the magic triangle done in the same easy going manner that is the house style of the IT Idiots folks.
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Jaimesh
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Re:Mac on a Windows Network - 2008/01/16 20:46
Hey Luc, I'm a student (currently totally windows based), and have a thriving passion for computers (hardware and software) and have just made a choice to do computing at A-Level. The reasons that I have for using a windows PC is that my parents use them, my school uses them and I can't really afford a PC (or Mac) of my own right now (unless I get a summer job). I can totally see why people use Macs, and personally love them for their style, integration, simplicity and stability (unix foundation). I have dabbled in a little of ubuntu, slax, fedora and solaris, but want definitely want to buy into Macs in the future.
I'm interested to hear about your history with computers. Where did you start, and what experiences have you had with windows, *nix/linux and osx? Also, when and why did you get interested with Macs, and what did you feel that a Mac offered that a windows or linux pc didn't? My other concern about switching is how big of a jump is a move from PCs to Macs, and is it worth it when I get to university?
Also, if Nick, Nicky and anyone else can add anything to this, feel free!
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reindeerface
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Re:Mac on a Windows Network - 2008/01/17 20:00
I think this would be a great topic for a show. There are many levels of interoperability that could be covered. The most obvious and easiest one would be simply discovering Windows file shares via CIFS/SMB. If not to attach/mount to a Windows machine/share directly, many NAS boxes (especially SOHO market) machines running embedded Linux ironically use Microsoft's networking and file sharing protocols via Samba. It's much more prevalent than AFP or NFS for heterogeneous environments. Sharing a printer to/from a Mac and PC could also go along with this.
Connecting to an AD/LDAP directory from a Mac would be another great topic. I've never done this or know much off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are many different ways to accomplish this and different features (as johnkay21 alluded to) that could be used in conjunction with authentication. For instance, automating the the file sharing/home folder aspect of the first topic could be built upon.
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Re:Mac on a Windows Network - 2008/02/12 15:09
Just going to add my vote for covering this in an episode.
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George Danzey-Smith
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Re:Mac on a Windows Network - 2008/02/12 16:48
I have to admit that this would be a very interesting topic (although I suppose the lack of 'virtual Mac' may be a problem!). It might be nice to do an episode showing how to join a Mac to an AD domain, and then looking at whether thing like user folder redirection, group policy and drive mapping function correctly.
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Richard Arblaster
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Re:Mac on a Windows Network - 2008/02/12 20:47
@simongrahamuk
your name seems familiar do I know you from somewhere else, or am I barking up the wrong tree? 
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alejandro castillo
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Re:Mac on a Windows Network - 2008/06/26 23:59
we'll for virtualization you could always just use a osx86 i suppose. But that would be stepping in some questionably legal territoy with Apple's ToS. Other than that, I would like to say that this is truely a great topic that should be covered. Heck they should do linux as well!
But having never done this before, i wonder if its asking to much..
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Greg Fyn
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Re:Mac on a Windows Network - 2008/07/27 16:01
+ 1 here
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Vaughan White
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Re:Mac on a Windows Network - 2008/07/28 18:18
It wouldn't be asking too much - it would just be a very short podcast unless they fit it in with something else.
This is so simple and takes no more than a minute or so plus a reboot per mac. 2 or 3 changes to AD to enable the correct authentication and you are done.
It took me no more than 30 minutes to do 2 classrooms of 56 iMacs and half a dozen Macbooks in total - also 20 odd older G5s were added later that afternoon. After than any of our 12000 students, lecturers or admin staff could log into the domain and have access to their home directories stored on Windows 2003 servers.
Group Policies and folder redirection don't cross over to the macs but you do get your home directory on the desktop, in the finder and on the dock.
One of the nice things it does give you is that you can tell the macs to let domain admins and enterprise admins become administrators of the macs themselves.
You can get a lot of the GP functionality by adding a Mac Server to the mix. Once that is added then you can define things like Apple Software Updates aka WSUS on the windows side, define items in the dock, dock location, proxy server settings for Safari and loads more.
If Nick and Nicky need a hand to get it working I only live in Essex so could help you guys out if you want. I'm a little camera shy so would prefer to remain 'off camera'!!
If you wanted to make a fully featured podcast on integration then you really need to add the mac server part into it as well. (I have a copy of Leopard Server running on an old G4 for demo purposes if needed). If you guys are interested just let me know and we can arrange something one weekend or if you are still in touch with Luc then I'm sure he could help you out.
Regards,
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Eric Helm
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Re:Mac on a Windows Network - 2008/09/25 14:39
yeah...I would like to see this too. I would like to see how to get iCalender, Adressebook and mail to work with exchange 2007 on windows 2008 and windows 2008 as a Ldap server (Domain Controller). Also MS Entourage in the same environment.
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Derek Wallace
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Re:Mac on a Windows Network - 2008/10/07 09:41
I would also be interested in this topic.
I'm considering trying to convince the execs here to let me deploy a Mac Server to do in-house document sharing/intranet/wiki stuff. If it could do our email, that would be nice too.
They're about to buy a new Exchange server for MUCH more money than an Xserve. They want the Exchange server so they can bring our email onsite and then shared calendars and company contact list. All the clients have Outlook and are WinXP. Am I just crazy to want to do an Xserve for any of this (and is it even possible?)
Thanks!
D.
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Greg Fyn
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Re:Mac on a Windows Network - 2008/10/08 20:24
I could use some help wth this....I can get the machines joined to AD but can't seem to get the home folders to work on the desktop. I would appreciate any instruction as this would be beneficial for our school.
Greg
Vaughan White wrote:
It wouldn't be asking too much - it would just be a very short podcast unless they fit it in with something else.
This is so simple and takes no more than a minute or so plus a reboot per mac. 2 or 3 changes to AD to enable the correct authentication and you are done.
It took me no more than 30 minutes to do 2 classrooms of 56 iMacs and half a dozen Macbooks in total - also 20 odd older G5s were added later that afternoon. After than any of our 12000 students, lecturers or admin staff could log into the domain and have access to their home directories stored on Windows 2003 servers.
Group Policies and folder redirection don't cross over to the macs but you do get your home directory on the desktop, in the finder and on the dock.
One of the nice things it does give you is that you can tell the macs to let domain admins and enterprise admins become administrators of the macs themselves.
You can get a lot of the GP functionality by adding a Mac Server to the mix. Once that is added then you can define things like Apple Software Updates aka WSUS on the windows side, define items in the dock, dock location, proxy server settings for Safari and loads more.
If Nick and Nicky need a hand to get it working I only live in Essex so could help you guys out if you want. I'm a little camera shy so would prefer to remain 'off camera'!!
If you wanted to make a fully featured podcast on integration then you really need to add the mac server part into it as well. (I have a copy of Leopard Server running on an old G4 for demo purposes if needed). If you guys are interested just let me know and we can arrange something one weekend or if you are still in touch with Luc then I'm sure he could help you out.
Regards,
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Vaughan White
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Re:Mac on a Windows Network - 2008/10/09 06:55
Greg,
There are a couple of GPO values that you may need to change to 'disabled'.
Make sure the policy is applied to the servers that host the home directories and all should be hunkydory as they say.
I'm not in the mood for lots of typing now so you can see the screenshot of the specific values you need to set at the following link.
http://gallery.me.com/vaughan.white#100073
If you want to email me direct then you should be able to work out an email address from the link above at my .mac (.me) account.
Regards,
Vaughan
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