Re: [WinMac] Managing Novell, NT and Unix servers from my desktopMacintosh G3

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Sat, 22 May 1999 20:58:09 -0500

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>>Managing Novell, NT and Unix servers from my desktop Macintosh G3.
>
>Using what????????
>
>Alex Dearden
>MCSE
>pata@doglover.com

ooh, caught some attention with that tag line! ;-)

Macintosh G3/300 w/128MB RAM & 21" Colorsync Monitor, extra Vram & Backside
cache, Mac OS 8.6 (in other words, tuned for speed, not much in the way of
addons or peripherals to keep it within some kind of budget). I actually run
it with virtual memory to boost it to 256.

For Unix: BetterTelnet, eXodus, BBEdit
    I can have multiple Telnet windows open with type set larger and bold type
color coded red for accessing databases like Ovid or manual pages, and I can
stream the session to a text file to reference, edit, print or copy to e-mail
from my Mac. As I work at becoming the local Unix guru (four 4-day courses so
far), I find that multiple telnet sessions is the way to go.
    with eXodus I can get full CDE graphical interface with our DEC Alphas or
our Suns and do ftp data transfers in both directions (or I could use Fetch).
    BBEdit is indespensible for looking at all kinds of files and will also
interface with the servers using FTP directly through the file menu.
    I can pop my Unix CDs directly into the Mac and open manuals and readmes
with BBEdit and print nicely pageinated versions that give page 2 of 64 etc
and the path name of the file on the CD. I've edited the file type
definitions of my Mac (was it launcher or ... don't remember right now) so
that double clicking on a text file or man page automatically opens in BBEdit.

For NT: Virtual PC 2.1.2, dual boot install of Win95 (on C) and WinNT 4 sp3
(on D, clean, separate install), WinNT Client Side Server Manager Tools (I
think that was from the WinNT Resource Kit. I give VPC 64MB RAM.
     This runs almost as fast as the Pentium 166 occupying the other end of my
desk. That machine is unstable because the NT installed on it was an upgrade
to Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and (followed the recommendations of
Microsoft's dialogs) was installed in the Windows directory over 3.11. I lost
access to the CD drive in the process, so I use my Mac NT to access PC CDs.
    The only thing really missing from this implementation is that, unlike the
Win95 on VPC, there is no shared drive for NT to transfer files through. I
find the the easiest thing to do is copy files from the Mac to a PC diskette,
eject it, flip to NT, push it back in again, and copy the files to the D
drive from the diskette.
    However, I am a full memeber of the NT domain, am treated as such by the
SMS server, and access other machines & printer queues through the network
connection shared with my Mac. My Mac has a fixed IP, but the NT on my Mac
uses DHCP and gets a dynamic IP separate from the Mac.

For Novell: Within NT on VPC I installed the Novell Client Side Server
Manager Tools. I can get NWAdmin or Rconsole from there.

For general network stuff related to managing the servers & troubleshooting
printers, I find OTTool from Neon to be indespensible.

I have plenty of other tools and software, but those are the key ones for the
jobs in question.

Since I'm the only person with a Mac on my desktop on this 26 story academic
library, my Mac has a DNS name of <ufo.library.umass.edu> and the name of my
NT within the NT domain is abductee.

Chris Hoogendyk
Network Specialist
UMass Library, Amherst

I think, therefore I Mac.

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