It always disturbs me when some Mac ignorent comes up with a technology plan
the main purpose of which, normally is to secure the jobs of IT personnel
through the employment of complex systems that sure needs a baby sitter for
most of the time. This is off topic, but some one called for help on this
list before. So here comes the cavelry....
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From: "Platform Wars digest" <platform-wars@sparky.listmoms.net>
Reply-To: "Platform Wars" <platform-wars@sparky.listmoms.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 00:00:55 -0400
To: "platform-wars digest recipients" <platform-wars@sparky.listmoms.net>
Subject: platform-wars digest: July 16, 2000
Subject: Re: Some One In Distress
From: James B Jepsen <orcrush@pronet.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 10:21:21 -0700
X-Message-Number: 5
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> In this "Technology Plan" they bring up issues with the mac and hence why they
are going windows. The two biggest issues are:
> 1.) macs can not do pure ip on a novell network.
> 2.) There is no out of box way to configure a mac to go through the
> authetican server. We are having problem with students sending/posting
> naughty-things across the world.
> i have been researching these issues by I can not find any documentation on
> how to route multiple user on a mac through our authentication servers. Our
> Administrator will not assist, he feels macs are a plague, whatever! Can
> anyone help?
</snip>
A very brief search brought up this information about the current Mac
Netware Client, version 5.12 on Prosoft's site at
<http://www.prosofteng.com/netware.asp>
-Speaks the IPX protocol
-Compatible with Netware 5, with IPX enabled
-Can be installed over the network and has an intelligent installer
-Can mount any IPX volume via the MacOS Chooser
-can authenticate to any IPX server via the Chooser, even if Netware for the
Macintosh is not installed on the server
To read this info directly, look at these pages:
Netware Client vs. Netware Servics for Macintosh comparison:
<http://www.prosofteng.com/netware_client_vs_nlm.asp>
and specifically
<http://www.prosofteng.com/netware_client_brief.asp>
Looks to me like your Net Admin is out of excuses...
James
www.pronet.net/orcrush
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