Oh internets, help me with my mixed platform environment

[netmouse]

So. I've been assigned some IT-type responsibilities at EDA. I have not used a macintosh regularly for nearly a decade and am just starting to feel almost comfortable on the mac laptop they got me. We have both Windows machines and macs on the network and have a Mac OS X server, which I'm about to upgrade to 10.5.

I feel like a total newb in this environment. In case I have some Mac-heads here, I wanted to ask. What should I read? Where should I go for advice and problem solutions?

Especially, how can I set things up so our windows users can connect to the Mac server as a shared device (like a mounted drive --basically like the mac users can) instead of having to sftp into it?

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[holyhippie]

Samba has been integrated into the default desktop builds of OS X for a long time - I'm pretty sure it was there in OS X 10.3, I know it is there in OS X 10.5. The Leopard server admin tool allows you to enable it and do some configuration of the windows service - and the directory utility allows you to make the OS X server check Active Directory for authentication.

All the answers you seek should be documented here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=ServerAdmin/10.5/en/c2fs12.html