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Please help. I am completely new to Mac OS X and we are now testing Macs as an alternative to Windows Vista Laptops and Desktops (especially as Vista is totally unreliable in ANY environment!).
As we are a construction company, pretty much everything needs to be automated, which means I need to set up document redirection to our File Server, Mapped Network Drives to automatically connect to the servers when the Mac is switched on and also automatic login to our Intranet Sites (using Sharepoint Portal 3.0).
I have tried, initially, running Kerberos Authentication on a test machine to connect to the server, but this seems to work inefficiently, and most of the time it doesn't use kerberos to sign in and attempts to use the local account - fails- then prompts for username and password (leading me to believe that the Mac Kerberos Updates provide little more than an egg timer in the taskbar counting down for the expiry of the ticket!).
I am unsure how to map the network drives so they automatically connect on starting. Can anyone help with this? I have a very limited budget so I need to use work-arounds for this rather than throwing money at the problem.
As we are a construction company, pretty much everything needs to be automated, which means I need to set up document redirection to our File Server, Mapped Network Drives to automatically connect to the servers when the Mac is switched on and also automatic login to our Intranet Sites (using Sharepoint Portal 3.0).
I have tried, initially, running Kerberos Authentication on a test machine to connect to the server, but this seems to work inefficiently, and most of the time it doesn't use kerberos to sign in and attempts to use the local account - fails- then prompts for username and password (leading me to believe that the Mac Kerberos Updates provide little more than an egg timer in the taskbar counting down for the expiry of the ticket!).
I am unsure how to map the network drives so they automatically connect on starting. Can anyone help with this? I have a very limited budget so I need to use work-arounds for this rather than throwing money at the problem.