Re: Looking for Mac utilities for WinNT Server

Steve Hyman(steveh[at]practech.com)
Wed, 1 Jul 1998 19:52:17 -0400

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The biggest advantage of DAVE is access to FAT volumes over the network.
Without it, Mac's only have access to NTFS partitions.
Mark Barrera
CIS, CSS-Desktop Support
x74523

> -----Original Message-----
> From: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu
> [mailto:winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Roth
> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 1998 4:14 PM
> To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
> Subject: Re: Looking for Mac utilities for WinNT Server
>
> >>There is a product called DAVE 2.0 made by Thursby software
> >>(www.thursby.com) that gives a mac access to a NT network, you can
> >>share files, browse the network, mount shared volumes, see print
> >>spoolers etc, and you have support for pop-up messages.
> >>
> >>I think that Novell probably
> >>has still more but in an NT environment, Dave makes it much easier
> to
> >>integrate. I have never like Macintosh services for NT that is uilt
> in
> >>to the server....
> >
> >From: Mark B. Johnson
> >
> >I can't recommend DAVE highly enough. This is a MUST HAVE for folks
> who
> >have Macs on NT networks. Couldn't live without it.
>
>
> OK, you're the second person who has recommended DAVE. Please explain
> to me what the great benefits of DAVE is. Microsoft's "Services for
> Macintosh" already gives me the ability to share files, browse the
> network and mount shared volumes.
> When I looked at DAVE many months ago it looked like you had to load a
> whole bunch of extensions and control panels. It sounds like DAVE
> would
> give me pop-up messages and the ability to see the print queues but
> that
> seems like a heavy price to pay just for that. Is there more to DAVE
> then that?
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