We are primarily a Novell shop at the moment but are contemplating a
move to Microsoft products and Active Driectory. This would include
file and print services as well as Exchange. We have 700 Windows XP
machines on campus and 400 Macs running MacOS 10.4.8.
There appears to be 4 options available to provide file services to the
Macs:
1. Microsoft's own File Services for Mac installed on a server. I
believe this sup****ts only Apple Filing Protocol 2.2
2. AdmitMac - client installed on every Mac
3. ExtremeZIP - server install
4. MacServerIP - server install
Any comments on the pros/cons of the above choices? Any
recommendations?
If we do move to Microsoft products, I certainly want a Mac to startup,
come to the login screen, a user types in their credentials,
authentication to AD takes place, on the desktop or in the dock, the
persons home directory appears. They can save files in their directory
and if the product is available on the Windows side (Word, Excel,
Powerpoint) open it on a Windows machine.
Single sign on would be nice as well but I am not sure that is
possible. After logging in to AD, it would be nice that when they
launch Entourage, they are not hit with another login.
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