Mac OS X Server's Print and File Services for Mixed Networks

摘要

Here we see how the whole concept of a "mixer" changes...with the advent of consistent document formats in all of the major apps for the last three years, the next step of making the clients and servers really see and interact each other normally was icing on the cake - but a very tasty one indeed, and well worth the UNIX revision that was X. As you might guess, once this is in place, other side-effects come in, such as straight point-to-point file transfers., cross-platform co-authoring, and more. I won't even begin to talk here about the system administrator benefits, such as adding Macs to the Active Directory pool as if they were PCs, or performing full user/group administration to even an all-PC shop from a single X server to avoid all of the security and hack issues in Windows-based servers. No, I shall leave those for a future article or as a joyous exercise for the IT migration student.