[WinMac] Re: NT versus Appleshare servers

Paul Lucente(plucente[at]blast.net)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 07:05:33 +0200

At 07:00 PM 7/16/98 -0500, Peter C.S. Adams wrote:
>"Harris, Matt" <HARRISMA@Mattel.com> wrote:
>>Currently, NT servers are the way to go. One is more than enough for
>>your needs. [...] Advantages: Native File Sharing for NT and Mac
>
>Except for two things: (1) last I saw, Mac clients and Windows clients
>couldn't share the same directory; and

This is incorrect. Macs and PC's, regardless of which version of the OS the
clients run, can share the same directories on the server. This is true
under NT 3.51 and NT 4.0. In the case of NT 3.51, its possible that what
you say is true, but as far as I can remember, even under SP3 it was possible.

>>Appleshare IP [...] has an inferior security model which requires
>>a different user list on every server
>
>For instance, if you are
>logged in to your machine as "Steve Jobs" and want to connect to a server
>as "Bill Gates," you have to restart Windows to do it, unless Guest access
>is disabled on the NT machine.

This is true of Windows 95 and 3.1 clients, however, *NT clients* _can_ log
into different servers under different user names. If I am not mistaken, I
believe the original poster is supporting NT boxes, not Win 95 or 3.1.

Paul

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