Re: Looking for Mac utilities for WinNT Server
Steve Hyman(steveh[at]practech.com)
Thu, 2 Jul 1998 08:38:12 -0400
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From: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu
[mailto:winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Perbix
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 1998 8:21 AM
To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
Subject: Re: Looking for Mac utilities for WinNT Server
>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?
Dave is not all that bad, and has some very nice features. It is a
simple install, you need to know a little about NT networks to really
get it to run smooth, and there are a few things they still need to fix.
For instance, if you are using user-level access, there is no THE WORLD
option for sharing a folder, so you can't have a share folder accessible
to ANYONE, they need an account, in my environment that is not ideal,
since I have many users that log into the domain AND users who just
log-in to the network (no domain account). But I have also successfully
shared files and printer services using DAVE. Dave also supports AUTO
mounting NT voumes on boot-up (just like the appleshare network) and you
have options of forcing a NT login when the machine boots (kinda sorta
maybe like Windows 8-)..)
I had only one bad file sharing instance and what happened is that the
file I copied to a windows '95 shared folder ended being invisible to
the mac...go figure 8-)....
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