Slashdot’s Pudge reviews the Server version of Mac OS X Panther 10.3. Second part tomorrow.
Review – Mac OS X Server 10.3, Part 1
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It is too bad we don’t have any comments on integration with Windows. As a server, connectivity is a very important issue. I have had great success with Panther Client and XP. The question is, can it manage Windows clients!
Of course the standard bitching (in the replys at slashdot) about the GUI interface getting in the way of doing real server administration.
Personally, I think that any person who can’t find his way to the terminal in OS X Server has no business setting one up, much less administrating it, and/or bitching about it.
It can manage Mac, Linux, AND Windows clients.
Depends on what you mean by “manage” Windows clients?
Can you use login scripts, policies, push out software installations et cetra for Windows? Can CUPS push out Windows Printer drivers, redirect folders to network shares, use a distributed file system for shares, sync offline folders? Can you manage the server from a windows or linux client machine?
Yes, Yes, I don’t know, never tried.
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The URL below answers some of those questions
http://www.admitmac.com/admitmac-vs-panther/index.shtml
HTH,
The reviewer has already stated that he doesn’t use Windows. Why harrass him with Windows clients ? By the way, there is no obligation for other servers to interact with Windows at all. That connectivity is only offered as a courtesy by the OS developers.