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<blockquote data-quote="stevenyc" data-source="post: 337833" data-attributes="member: 20303">More of a &quot;forced to support Macs b/c there's no one else&quot; but I still have some issues I could use some help with.&nbsp; We're really understaffed (2 of us for about 150 users, not counting equipment) so any help would be appreciated.VPN connections on my laptops are slow and unreliable.&nbsp; Also, Netscreen's Nfuse won't work on the Mac, but I don't think I can do anything about that.Installing a network printer.&nbsp; On my pcs, I browse to my print server, double click the printer I want and I'm done.&nbsp; Is there a way to do that on a Mac?Entourage is a joke, especially when the user also has a Blackberry connected to my BES.&nbsp; Any alternatives?I'm setting up shortcuts to a webpage for my users to check their spam.&nbsp; On the pc's I get a prompt about the certificate, click install and they're ready to go, but I don't get that with Safari.Permissions.&nbsp; I learned the hard way that I can't just right click a folder, change the permissions and then push the changes down to the subfolders, but even when I use Workgroup Manager I come across times where a user ends up as the owner of a file instead of the Admin and then nobody else can modify it.&nbsp; How do I avoid this?&quot;Unexpectedly quit b/c of an unknown error&quot; used to make me want to put my fist through a monitor before I learned about a way to use Terminal to get more useful information after a crash, but is there anything more like Windows Event Viewer that I can use?Any help would be appreciated.&nbsp; Hopefully I'll get to hire someone who's into Macs and I can pass them over, but until then I'm stuck.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="stevenyc, post: 337833, member: 20303"] More of a "forced to support Macs b/c there's no one else" but I still have some issues I could use some help with. We're really understaffed (2 of us for about 150 users, not counting equipment) so any help would be appreciated. VPN connections on my laptops are slow and unreliable. Also, Netscreen's Nfuse won't work on the Mac, but I don't think I can do anything about that. Installing a network printer. On my pcs, I browse to my print server, double click the printer I want and I'm done. Is there a way to do that on a Mac? Entourage is a joke, especially when the user also has a Blackberry connected to my BES. Any alternatives? I'm setting up shortcuts to a webpage for my users to check their spam. On the pc's I get a prompt about the certificate, click install and they're ready to go, but I don't get that with Safari. Permissions. I learned the hard way that I can't just right click a folder, change the permissions and then push the changes down to the subfolders, but even when I use Workgroup Manager I come across times where a user ends up as the owner of a file instead of the Admin and then nobody else can modify it. How do I avoid this? "Unexpectedly quit b/c of an unknown error" used to make me want to put my fist through a monitor before I learned about a way to use Terminal to get more useful information after a crash, but is there anything more like Windows Event Viewer that I can use? Any help would be appreciated. Hopefully I'll get to hire someone who's into Macs and I can pass them over, but until then I'm stuck. [/QUOTE]

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