[WinMac] Re: Connecting G3 to NT

Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:17:04 -0500

>At the new office, they solely use NT servers. I take it that I need
>something like Thursby's DAVE to connect to the server? I would appreciate
>confirmaiton of this assumption. Does the server also need Services for
>Macintosh activated - even if I use DAVE?

No. and no.

You really don't need DAVE on the Mac if you can (if they let you ;)
enable Services for Macintosh on the NT server. This essentially runs
Appletalk stacks on the NT server making it appear like another Mac
(albeit a crippled one, ohhhh, couldn't contain myself) to the other Macs.

You would use DAVE on the Mac if you couldn't load Services for Macintosh
on the NT server (maybe due to some ignorant Network Administrator who's
still stuck in Appletalk Phase I being a "chatty" protocol).

(Hmmm... I'm gettin more bitter with age apparently).

Alex Dearden
pata@doglover.com

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