[WinMac] Macintosh services under NT 5
Marc Bizer(mlbizer[at]mail.utexas.edu)
Wed, 26 May 1999 16:18:34 -0500
Hello everyone,
A winmac subscriber's recent post about a complex procedure
to follow for properly installing Macintosh services under NT 5
surprised me by their redundancy, and I checked this information with
an expert friend of mine, who recommended the
WINNT-L@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM list for NT-only discussions. I'm
appending what he wrote.
--Marc
He [The Winmac subscriber] wrote
>1) NT/Server 4, basic services only
>2) Diskeeper, then defrag;
>3) RDISK /S
>4) Service Pack 5 (make a shortcut & put it on the Desktop)
>5) Services For Macintosh, and SNMP;
>6) SP5 again;
>7) RDISK /S
>8) Run Diskeeper to defrag again.
>If you want to throw in IIS4, do it between steps 5 & 6.
Well, you apply services for Mac on the initial install then the service
pack updates it, so no need to apply the service pack twice. Same for IIS.
RDISK is just a standard emergency boot disk, that one creates multiple time
primarily when changing or adding hardware. BTW, the Compaq servers are
generally sold with an automated build of Windows NT, including the service
packs, so one generally does not go through this install stuff unless you
are using a pirated copy of NT server. All this defragging stuff
(DiskKeeper) is a complete waste of time on a fresh install.
>CONSPICUOUS BY ITS ABSENCE: Any stuff from Compaq.
There are no HAL files from Compaq on NT server (on HP does this).
>[At this point it's well worth noting that there IS a notable
>exception:
>DIGITAL. DEC and MS runs/ran a joint NT development lab - That is why NT
>on
>an Alpha runs so smoothly, and as a byproduct their NT/x86 systems also
>runs/ran quite well.
This is nonsense. Compaq has an entire office in MS's Redmond HQ for NT
development, and has for over 5 years. All new NT development goes through
Compaq machines before it sees beta.
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