I was recently asked by a colleague about the ease of setting up Mac’s in the SBS 2003 world. We are all aware of the pitfalls of using a .local domain name (I hope) and that some of the wizards do not work (or perhaps none of them do), but I have never actually been through the detail.
One question that stumped me was around certificates on the Mac. So, I posted the question internally and someone Mark Stanfill piped up asking if the customer / partner had looked at the Whitepaper on how to setup a Mac.
For my sins, I was not even remotely aware of the whitepaper, so I downloaded it and had a look. Talk about an awesome document, so if you need to set up a Mac on a SBS network, get this document. The link is http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=46578 and this should take you to the download.
Microsoft is not the only source for information like this, it is also worth looking at the below for some ISA and Mac info:
http://simultaneouspancakes.com/Lessons/archives/2005/11/internet_access_1.shtml
Ttfn
David
Just as a FYI, here is the table of contents:
Connecting Macintosh OS X 10.3 and Higher Clients to a Windows Small Business Server 2003 Network 7
Step 1: Install the Latest Macintosh Updates 9
Step 2: Collect Information 9
Step 3: Configure DNS 10
Step 4: Share Folders Using the SMB Protocol 16
Configure SMB Settings by Using Directory Access 16
Disable SMB Signing on the Server 18
Step 5: Access E-mail 20
Step 5a: Access E-mail Using Entourage 2004 21
Add the self-signed certificate that the server created to the Macintosh certificate store 21
Verify DNS query resolution 22
Set Up an Exchange Server Account on the Client Computer 23
Step 5b: Access E-mail Using Outlook Web Access 26
Access E-mail Using Internet Explorer 5 for Mac 27
Access E-mail Using Safari 27
Access E-mail Using Netscape 27
Step 6: Access the http://companyweb Web Site 28
Using Internet Explorer as Your Web Browser 28
Using Safari or Netscape as Your Web Browser 28
Step 7: Access Remote Web Workplace 29
To connect to server or client-computer desktops from a client computer 31
To enable access to http://companyweb and to the monitoring Web sites 31
Related Resources 32
Appendix 33
Share Files Using File Services for Macintosh 33
Configure the Server 33
Configure the Client Computers 34
Join the Macintosh Computers to the Domain 36
Worksheets 39
Posted
Fri, May 5 2006 4:22 PM
by
David Overton