Ok.. just got my first MAC... days ago.. very excited, G5, runs really nice!! Really happy thus far.
A few concepts I don't understand and I need some advice in the right direction.
The machine is for me, in my office, as my workstation. I own the place and all the machines in it.
In it, is a completel PC network.
And I really do need some advice.
I run, in the back room, 2 machines, both running windows 2003 server.
The "PROLIANTSERVER" is used as a file storage machine. Everyone in the office has their own directory to store good, plus one big directory for all of our shared docs that we all use. The machine has an array, and the saftey factor is nice.
The second machine back there ("SQLSERVER") is really just a spare machine that I use for testing and development of web site stuff. I keep local copies of the sites i work with on my machine (my current windows pc), they get tested on SQLSERVER and the get backed up nightly to PROLIANTSERVER.
Everyone else in the office has a pc, and the PC up front (called RECEPTION) has a Samsung ML-1750 printer hanging off it. Everyone in the office, prints to that printer and everything runs smooth.
K, NOW
I have got the G5 running beside my PC. I bought an airport card and figured out how to hit our wireless router pretty easy and am in the internet, no problems there!
The mac shows on my windows pc's and I have figured out how to browse to see the network.
Here's some issues I need some serious advice towards and I dont really understand how all this works.
1) ON my personal windows PC, I keep a shortcut on my desktop that take me directly to MY directory on PROLIANTSERVER and the DOCUMENTS folder on PROLIANT SERVER. Further, I have a shortcut to a particular excel document that remains stored in MY directory on PROLIANTSERVER, and I open it ALL the time, it's an extremely important working document. And I basically need to be able to do the same on the mac.
I've figured out how to browse the network, I can see all PC's in my office. When I double click proliant server, it asks me for a username and passy, which I put in the same as the user account on the proliantserver, and then it asks me SMB MOUNT? and shows me a list of folders..... uhmmm... and to boot.. i see every folder EXCEPT the DOCUMENTS folder.
So I'm not clear what SMB mount means, however, I tried it, and I see that it adds an icon on the left side of the browser and lets me into what folder that or machine or whatever that it. Also puts an icon on the desktop. I;ve figured out how to creat an ALIAS to a particular folder, but if I reboot the MAC, it's of course not there when I boot up and any aliases created are PO'd and don't work.
Further, when I try to connect to say PROLIANTSERVER again, it sometimes tells me "the alias PROLIANTSERVER could not be opened because the original item cannot be found" and I can find now way to refresh the list of network computers.
What I want, is to be able to turn the computer on, be instantly connected to what I need to be connected to and have shortcuts on the desktop to the files that I need. + I really do need to be able to back up certain files to the windows machines daily. Id be happy right now with figuring out how to just get a working shorcut that worked everytime without having to retell the machine where everything is.
Can anyone shed any light into this longwinded bit of nonsense?
We're not even going to talk about printing right now and what ever the heck SMABA is.. (i can see the printer.. it just won't really print)
A few concepts I don't understand and I need some advice in the right direction.
The machine is for me, in my office, as my workstation. I own the place and all the machines in it.
In it, is a completel PC network.
And I really do need some advice.
I run, in the back room, 2 machines, both running windows 2003 server.
The "PROLIANTSERVER" is used as a file storage machine. Everyone in the office has their own directory to store good, plus one big directory for all of our shared docs that we all use. The machine has an array, and the saftey factor is nice.
The second machine back there ("SQLSERVER") is really just a spare machine that I use for testing and development of web site stuff. I keep local copies of the sites i work with on my machine (my current windows pc), they get tested on SQLSERVER and the get backed up nightly to PROLIANTSERVER.
Everyone else in the office has a pc, and the PC up front (called RECEPTION) has a Samsung ML-1750 printer hanging off it. Everyone in the office, prints to that printer and everything runs smooth.
K, NOW
I have got the G5 running beside my PC. I bought an airport card and figured out how to hit our wireless router pretty easy and am in the internet, no problems there!
The mac shows on my windows pc's and I have figured out how to browse to see the network.
Here's some issues I need some serious advice towards and I dont really understand how all this works.
1) ON my personal windows PC, I keep a shortcut on my desktop that take me directly to MY directory on PROLIANTSERVER and the DOCUMENTS folder on PROLIANT SERVER. Further, I have a shortcut to a particular excel document that remains stored in MY directory on PROLIANTSERVER, and I open it ALL the time, it's an extremely important working document. And I basically need to be able to do the same on the mac.
I've figured out how to browse the network, I can see all PC's in my office. When I double click proliant server, it asks me for a username and passy, which I put in the same as the user account on the proliantserver, and then it asks me SMB MOUNT? and shows me a list of folders..... uhmmm... and to boot.. i see every folder EXCEPT the DOCUMENTS folder.
So I'm not clear what SMB mount means, however, I tried it, and I see that it adds an icon on the left side of the browser and lets me into what folder that or machine or whatever that it. Also puts an icon on the desktop. I;ve figured out how to creat an ALIAS to a particular folder, but if I reboot the MAC, it's of course not there when I boot up and any aliases created are PO'd and don't work.
Further, when I try to connect to say PROLIANTSERVER again, it sometimes tells me "the alias PROLIANTSERVER could not be opened because the original item cannot be found" and I can find now way to refresh the list of network computers.
What I want, is to be able to turn the computer on, be instantly connected to what I need to be connected to and have shortcuts on the desktop to the files that I need. + I really do need to be able to back up certain files to the windows machines daily. Id be happy right now with figuring out how to just get a working shorcut that worked everytime without having to retell the machine where everything is.
Can anyone shed any light into this longwinded bit of nonsense?
We're not even going to talk about printing right now and what ever the heck SMABA is.. (i can see the printer.. it just won't really print)
