Mac to Win network
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- zoiks
Have any of you Apple peeps attempted to connect your macs to a windows network?
Please say yes---This will determine if They let me get one to use for work.
- Andrew_D0
Have done for many a moon.
- ESKEMA0
yes
- zoiks0
When I have asked PC network pros recently I have gotten a less-than-confident response. Their reaction tell me [We've tried it before and its a pain in the ass to set up and manage - totally problematic]. Are they just ignorant?
- SkyPoo0
^ Its a bit more work for them than simply plugging it into the network so they tend to gripe about it in the hope they can swing it back to a PC machine that they are fully conversant with.
- madirish0
the very statement that 'brand/make X' will not connect to a "PC network" is such a load of rotten horseshit it makes me laugh. it is a *network*, not a platform party FFS.
seriously- this is a CLASSIC "MS-certified" sysadmin reply. when did it become 1999 again?
- anxiousarms0
every agency i've ever worked for has both MAC and PC machines on the same network.
- Infirm0
They are totally ignorant, it is as simple as connecting another PC.
- zoiks0
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I am so excited to get my first mac!
- tasty0
our are hooked up mac/pc living as one.
- bulletfactory0
my mac works with my network at home (pc based WiFi) and the PC network at my office -- i can connect directly to my shared folders on my pc at the office, but am having a bit of trouble logging into my shared folders at home - also having some issues connecting to my Mac shares from my networked PC (running Leopard and XP Pro respectively).
- Alpesh0
Yes ours are very happy together
- acescence0
works fine with active directory, which is what the corporate IT guys will be interested in
- pang0
I have previously added a Mac into a Win network. I done this back in 2001 with Mac OS 9 :)
Basically, I created a shared folder on the Mac and then acitivated the Mac services share file faciilty that was on Windows server at that time (Win Server 2000 I think) and hey presto it worked. The IT staff weren't v.happy to hear that I turned on the Mac services since they found that every shared volume had a Win hidden 0 kb file called 'Icon File' which they could not delete.I also tried the same share method after upgrading to OS X and that also worked the same except there were more features/support with OS X than the old Mac classic OS.
So as long as you have access to the Win server and admin privileges, it should be no probs :)
- And every IT guy's dream is to give the non-IT people admin privileges.killthefish
- uan0
osx supports samba, so it isn't more any problem to connect to a win-network...just connect using smb://192.168....