OSX default startup on new iMacs a major problem.
OSX cannot sucessfully and fully network with NT networks (probably the most common cross platform network)I am sure that the OS9 option will still exist. But Until they fix this I think it is a mistake that will only piss off many IT people.
Maybe they will release OS 10.2 by then and it will fix the problem. I know I can't use OSX until this is fixed.
Maybe they will release OS 10.2 by then and it will fix the problem. I know I can't use OSX until this is fixed.
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Not an issue!
(They also reimage any Windows XP boxes with Win2K, but that's another story I guess.)
<strong>Where I work they looked at X and it was so useless they just booted into 9 and forgot about it.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Are they all anti-OS X like you?
<strong>Where I work they looked at X and it was so useless they just booted into 9 and forgot about it.</strong><hr></blockquote>
<strong>Where I work they looked at X and it was so useless they just booted into 9 and forgot about it.</strong><hr></blockquote>
No doubt it was the fifteen minutes spent resizing Finder windows that did it.
Scott, you are a treasure.
<strong>Where I work they looked at X and it was so useless they just booted into 9 and forgot about it.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Ignorance is bliss....
IT and NT managers are sometimes an ignorant lot. C'mon, you can't tell me that there is NO possibility even now that this can't be done? Third party software or otherwise?
Nothing...? An embarrassment on either their part or Apple's...
I'd be interested in seeing someone's light bulb pop up...
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Ignorance is bliss....
IT and NT managers are sometimes an ignorant lot. C'mon, you can't tell me that there is NO possibility even now that this can't be done? Third party software or otherwise?
Nothing...? An embarrassment on either their part or Apple's...
I'd be interested in seeing someone's light bulb pop up...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Mac users can be an "ignorant lot" too. The major problem with OS X where I "work" was AppleTalk. Let's see if I remember. NT 4 supports AppleTalk. OS X only supports AppleTalk via TCP/IP. So there was no way to use the existing AppleTalk share on the NT system. There is no AppleTalk via IP for NT 4, only 2000 or XP (???). The department IS NOT going to "upgrade" the server to 2000/XP just to get AppleTalk over IP. In fact they can't do it. So OS X was a no go.
<strong>Well it works here with a NT4 box. Entering sharenames and workgroups and passwords is nothing for newbies and annoys the hell out of me to be frank, however I have file access both ways. The current SMB version in X is inferior to that of X Server I think, but it is not failing completely.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Maybe it's been fixed? I don't know and don't care. IMO Apple is the one that needs to get this shit working. If they were smart they'd sign a deal with Microsoft to assure that file access to Windows machine will be there and work.
[ 01-09-2002: Message edited by: jimmac ]</p>
<strong>" I don't know and don't care " brands your statements as emotional opinion and not logical reasoning. But, I already knew that. </strong><hr></blockquote>
No it doesn't. It just means that I don't care. Mostly because I don't care if some handful of Mac users start using OS X where I work. For that to happen I'd have to go over there and tell them that it *may* be working now and tell them they have to buy the free update and then ....
But that's not going to happen because I don't care if they use it.
[ 01-09-2002: Message edited by: Scott H. ]</p>
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Mac users can be an "ignorant lot" too. The major problem with OS X where I "work" was AppleTalk. Let's see if I remember. NT 4 supports AppleTalk. OS X only supports AppleTalk via TCP/IP. So there was no way to use the existing AppleTalk share on the NT system. There is no AppleTalk via IP for NT 4, only 2000 or XP (???). The department IS NOT going to "upgrade" the server to 2000/XP just to get AppleTalk over IP. In fact they can't do it. So OS X was a no go.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I thought AppleTalk came back in 10.1 ?
Michael
<strong>But that's not going to happen because I don't care if they use it.
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Ah...ignorance is bliss...just kidding Scott H.
[ 01-09-2002: Message edited by: Scott H. ]</p>
Please don't start that broken record about the the free update. I got it for free very easily and I don't know anyone who didn't. Heck the guy that works in the university bookstore where I work got 10 copies to hand out!
This is the attitude that ended your job as moderator at MacNN isn't it? Sorry, but I think it's just childish.