[WinMac] Re: Scheduling & Email Software Advice

Nathan Zamprogno(baliset[at]zeta.org.au)
Sat, 1 Aug 1998 12:08:23 +1000

Dear Dean,

I saw your post and our Christian school has recently gone through the
same issues...

>I'd like you experience and advice in these areas:
>
>1) Do I need Dave for every Mac (5 or 6 of them) or should I take a
>different approach to attachment. We need to share files on the server,
>but not necessarily on every machine.
>
Don't know anything about "Dave", but NT server has a facility called
Services for Macintosh that will allow you to define any directory or drive
on the NT box and allow you to mount it to the Mac desktop using AppleShare
in the Chooser. No special software is need on the Mac at all. Thus you
could file-serve from NT and the same directory can be simultaneoulsy
accessed by Macs and PC's at once.

>2) Can the Mac's Appleshare to each other directly or do we do it through
>the server?
>
Assuming you are running ethernet- yes. Our ethernet network runs no fewer
than 4 protocols. TCP for our internet sharing and internal e-mail, NetBEUI
for the PC networking, D-NetTalk for some of the older Macs networking, and
AppleTalk for everything else. The newer Macs talk to one another using
AppleTalk just as if there was nothing else on the network at all.

>3) Recommendations for e-mail client software (I'd love to use Emailer
>but it won't connect to the Exchange server). The default will probably
>be Outlook Express since it's already available with Office'98 and the
>PC's are most likely going that way.
>
My opinion- avoid exchange like the plague. All you need is a shareware POP
mail server like AIMS (Apple Internet Mail Server) on a Mac and use Eudora
as the client on both the Macs and the PC's. Advantage? Eudora has the same
interface for both platforms.

>4) Recommendations for scheduling software - Since the server is Exchange
>and the PC's are going to use Outlook it would be nice to use Outlook on
>the Mac - but this is not available, yet for scheduling. Any ideas?

Now-up-to-date has clients for windows and Macs that share calendars and
scheduling tools and I cannot speak highly enough of it.

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 -Nathan Zamprogno, Oakville, New South Wales
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I.T Manager- John Wycliffe Christian School
Assistant Administrator, Hawkesbury Christian Centre

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