Connecting Mac OS X to SBS

Do you use Mac's in the workplace? More and more SBS customers are asking how to connect their computers running Mac OS X to an SBS 2003 network. In response to those in need, we've written a paper that describes the necessary steps to take. 

"Connecting Mac OS X 10.3 and Higher Clients to a Windows Small Business Server 2003 Network” has been through a technical review and some preliminary testing, however we’d like to get some customer feedback before it is officially published. If you have a Macintosh computer running Mac OS X 10.3, try connecting it to your SBS network, and then post your feedback about what you liked or didn’t like about this doc! J

UPDATE 01/20/05: A couple of folks have commented that the linked paper is still marked as "Preliminary Documentation." At this time, we do not have a firm timeline for incorporating your feedback into the doc, so your comments will continue to appear in the feedback below until the paper is updated. Thanks for asking! -Steve

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Comments

• Anonymous
  November 24, 2004
  Well, I have downloaded it, but what application opens it?
  
  David

• Anonymous
  November 24, 2004
  .mht (Microsoft Web archive) files can be opened directly in Internet Explorer 5.0 or later, or in Word 2002 or later. .mht files allow you to package a Web page and its supporting files into a single file.
  
  -Steve

• Anonymous
  November 24, 2004
  Word 2004 opened it on my Mac.

• Anonymous
  November 24, 2004
  Tried Word X. Won't even open it when I use the Open command from the file menu and select it explicitly. Dragging it on to Word gets it treated as a text file. IE does nothing.
  
  Maybe a more Mac-friendly file format would help....
  
  (I have downloaded it twice.)
  
  David

• Anonymous
  November 26, 2004
  Connecting a Macintosh to SBS 2003 Server via SMB:
  http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2004/06/14/8181.aspx
  
  Have you had Erik review these docs?

• Anonymous
  November 27, 2004
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  November 29, 2004
  I stand corrected. My experience with MAC's is almost non-existent and I was unaware that mht files do not open in the Mac version of IE. Thanks to the folks who pointed it out. I will be replacing the mht file with a .doc formatted version shortly.
  
  -Steve
  
  

• Anonymous
  November 29, 2004
  My office just purchased four new G5 boxes and I went through your steps for adding them to the domain with no problems. I'm a Windows network admin with very little Mac experience so that says a lot for your documentation - very clear.
  
  -Michael

• Anonymous
  November 29, 2004
  Thank you Eriq! Your feedback has been added to the "bug" that we're using to track this content. It will be incorporated into the final version.

• Anonymous
  November 29, 2004
  There may be some additional discussion about the actual items that need to be disabled in group policy. One of the SBS TL's has said that we should exclude the "if client agrees" policy and leave it as "undefined." My early development of this doc found that both of those policies needed to be Disabled, but I have not yet had a chance to verify. Hopefully this week...
  
  -Eriq

• Anonymous
  November 30, 2004
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• Anonymous
  December 16, 2004
  Thanks for this! Been looking for something like this, it's GREAT!!!
  
  Went through the article step by step and it worked great for SBS 2000 too. Just had to do an alternative method for disabling SMB signing in Windows 2000 Server.

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  April 05, 2008
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