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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 337969" data-attributes="member: 17052">Hi stevenyc, I can't answer all of your questions, but I can help with some:1/ Installing network printers.&nbsp; If your printer is of a recent model, it will support Apple's Bonjour protocol - configuration free networking. The printer advertizes it's presence and the Mac will automatically see it. Setup is fast and hassle free. Google &quot;Bonjour for Windows&quot; and &quot;Bonjour for Mac&quot; to see all the details. I just set up a printer on my Mac and had a Windows PC on the same network sharing it within about 5 minutes.2/ Entourage isn't Outlook I agree. Happily, the open source world has provided Evolution:see: <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution" target="_blank">http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution</a>Setup is less than simple unfortunately. You will need to install Apple X11, then Darwinports. Then you can use DarwinPorts to install Evolution. Evolution is the nearest thing to Outlook I have seen on the open market, and it works directly with Exchange servers. 3/ Permissions: I am not sure what the application is that would have you needing to directly muck with permissions, but your best bet may be good ol' Terminal.app, the Mac OS X command line. The unix standard &quot;chown&quot; and &quot;chmod&quot; commands both support a &quot;R&quot; (recursive) switch that will allow them to traverse down the full tree of the starting diretory, applying the changes you request.For more complicated commands without a &quot;R&quot; switch, check out my &quot;walk&quot; utility, from: <a href="http://www.campbell-tx.net/campbellware/macosx.html" target="_blank">http://www.campbell-tx.net/campbellware/macosx.html</a>. This command &quot;walks down&quot; the directory hierarchy starting at the directory you were in when you issued the command, executing a supplied command at each level. So, for example:[CODE]walk . &quot;chown ugo-w *.jpg&quot;[/CODE]would traverse the directory hierarchy starting at your current dir (the &quot;.&quot; part of the command, and execute the command &quot;chown ugo-w *.jpg&quot; at each level. In this case, this would make all JPG files non writable. The possiblities are endless with this command. By the way, the name is derived from an old iRMX86 HI command that did a similar thing. Anyone here old enough to remember iRMX86?&nbsp; :dive:Hope this helps at least a bit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mac57, post: 337969, member: 17052"] Hi stevenyc, I can't answer all of your questions, but I can help with some: 1/ Installing network printers. If your printer is of a recent model, it will support Apple's Bonjour protocol - configuration free networking. The printer advertizes it's presence and the Mac will automatically see it. Setup is fast and hassle free. Google "Bonjour for Windows" and "Bonjour for Mac" to see all the details. I just set up a printer on my Mac and had a Windows PC on the same network sharing it within about 5 minutes. 2/ Entourage isn't Outlook I agree. Happily, the open source world has provided Evolution: see: [url]http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution[/url] Setup is less than simple unfortunately. You will need to install Apple X11, then Darwinports. Then you can use DarwinPorts to install Evolution. Evolution is the nearest thing to Outlook I have seen on the open market, and it works directly with Exchange servers. 3/ Permissions: I am not sure what the application is that would have you needing to directly muck with permissions, but your best bet may be good ol' Terminal.app, the Mac OS X command line. The unix standard "chown" and "chmod" commands both support a "R" (recursive) switch that will allow them to traverse down the full tree of the starting diretory, applying the changes you request. For more complicated commands without a "R" switch, check out my "walk" utility, from: [url]http://www.campbell-tx.net/campbellware/macosx.html[/url]. This command "walks down" the directory hierarchy starting at the directory you were in when you issued the command, executing a supplied command at each level. So, for example: [CODE]walk . "chown ugo-w *.jpg" [/CODE] would traverse the directory hierarchy starting at your current dir (the "." part of the command, and execute the command "chown ugo-w *.jpg" at each level. In this case, this would make all JPG files non writable. The possiblities are endless with this command. By the way, the name is derived from an old iRMX86 HI command that did a similar thing. Anyone here old enough to remember iRMX86? :dive: Hope this helps at least a bit. [/QUOTE]

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