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Oh internets, help me with my mixed platform environment
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?
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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In my opinion, all solutions to this problem are horribly insecure. If sshfs supported anything other than Linux clients I'd tell you to use that on top of ssh/sftp to make things nicer. But barring that, it's possible but you're making your network more vulnerable to internal employee tampering or to being subverted in interesting ways by someone who gets through the firewall.
That likely isn't very helpful though. And you want to know the 'approved' solution that works but is broken and mis-designed from the get-go. Sadly I don't know it, but it likely involves the acronyms SMB, CFS or the word Samba and possibly the term 'Active Directory' and/or the related term 'Bonjour' (or 'zero-conf' being another word for 'Bonjour').