Re: Using MAC's on a Windows NT Network
Bruce Carter (bcarter@mentor.idbsu.edu)
Mon, 12 Aug 1996 23:54:40 EDT
At 6:04 PM 8/12/96, Debbie Delecce wrote:
>Our elementary school is planning on installing a mini-computer lab this
>fall. Orginally, we had planned to use MACS on a Windows NT server (our
>library uses Follett software--PC based--all would be on same network). Then
>an article appeared in the newspapers by Doron Levin with Knight-Ridder which
>basically concluded that integrating MACS on networks with Microsoft/Windows
>technology had many glitches and were expensive to fix. One of our school
>board members (who has never been comfortable using a MAC) is opposed to us
>proceeding with the MACs in the lab. We presently have stand-alone MACs in
>the elementary classrooms and the teachers have been very happy with them. I
>need input from any EDTECH member. Are the glitches as bad as was reported?
> Should schools be moving away from MACs? Is there any resource that I can
>share with the school board on this controversy? Thanks for your help. You
>may reply via the listserve or directly to my e-mail.
We have Macs all over our campus fiber/ethernet network, integrated with
Novell, NT, Unix, and AppleShare servers. There aren't any glitches and it
doesn't cost anything to fix them. The only people that have trouble
integrating Macs are ones that don't know anything about them. I've read
in national magazines that Macs can't do TCP/IP. Funny, I've been using
MacTCP and OpenTransport for years to do just that. Ignorance runs wild,
especially in the trade press, and especially about Macs among Intel
consultants.
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Bruce Carter, Division Head Instructional Development Division
Simplot/Micron Instructional Technology Center (208)385-1851@voice
Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725 (208)385-1856@fax
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