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Adam Raff - 13 Jan 2006 22:19 GMT

Good day,

I hope somebody here can point me in the right direction. We have a small
company which is mostly PC based. Do to what we do, we also have two Mac's.
The Mac's connect via finder to our network shares and the user logs into
the network with his normal logon to gain access. The Mac is not part of
the domain from what I can tell. Since I now have a new Mac I would like to
set it up right.

The issue that I am having is that the Macvol is very large and has health
issues. From posting and reading stuff on this forum I got recommendations
to either buy Dave or AdmitMac. I really do not use Policy that much just
on the PC for WSUS and some minor stuff. The way the Mac login now seems Ok
and from what I understand either Dave or ADmitMac will solve my issue with
the MacVol and I can turn off Mac services and the apple protocol. From
what I understand the program should also solve my name resource issues and
font issues since the save the resources in a better format.

I am very new with Mac, our Mac people I feel know less then I do at times
so what I would like if possible is some pro's and Con's on this and what
product would be better Dave or ADmitMac?

Any help or insight would be most appreciated
Adam Raff

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Paul Nelson - 16 Jan 2006 19:32 GMT

Since you are not connecting the Mac to an Active Directory domain, DAVE
would be the best choice. If you plan to add the Mac to an Active Directory
domain in the future, ADmitMac would be the best choice.

Paul Nelson
Thursby Software Systems, Inc.

> Good day,
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> Any help or insight would be most appreciated
> Adam Raff

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Adam Raff - 17 Jan 2006 21:28 GMT

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your response and I am looking more into Dave right now. I am
looking more on the Pro and Cons of either product. You see I am not sure
what I will get out of putting the Mac on the network if any. As a network
admin I would think putting the Mac on the network in AD would make sense
since the user would have access to all the shares like he would with a PC.
On the other hand I have tried logging into the network just by itself and I
was able to connect so I would assume that it would be similar with Dave.
Does Dave help in printing?

Also I noticed that you work for the company that created Dave I was hoping
to get people that may have used your product so that they could give me
there feeling on the product. Do you guys have a forum that I can look at
to see what people are saying about your product?

Since I am a PC person hooking this Mac up or trying to get it working has
been a real pain, we have had Mac's before and they just seemed to always
have issues on the network with files and other stuff which is why I posted
here to get some insights from other users.

Thanks
Adam Raff

> Since you are not connecting the Mac to an Active Directory domain, DAVE
> would be the best choice. If you plan to add the Mac to an Active
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>> Any help or insight would be most appreciated
>> Adam Raff

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Adam Raff - 17 Jan 2006 23:08 GMT

Also as a side note it seems that our Mac including the new one keeps
getting kicked out of the network or logged off by the Server. He then has
to reconnect to the network share.

Thanks
Adam Raff

> Hi Paul,
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>>> Any help or insight would be most appreciated
>>> Adam Raff

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