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davidramsay - Jul 25, 2005 - 1:39 pm

I know its a Mac forum, but has anyone got experience with attempting to integrate Macs within this MS environment?

If so can you let me have a URL to get me off the ground.

Thanks

thoule - Jul 27, 2005 - 5:07 pm

http://www.macwindows.com/ is a good place to start. If you have a specific question, write back. The first thing to try is to connect to a windows share point from the mac. From the Go.. menu, choose Connect to Server. Enter smb://server.ip.addr.com/ you should know the IP address of the windows server.

Good Luck!
Todd
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todd@macosx.com ---- Apple Certified System Administrator

davidramsay - Jul 27, 2005 - 6:13 pm

Thanks for reply, you can consider this closed unless I have something useful to add to the knowledge.

Daver

davidramsay - Dec 7, 2005 - 3:16 pm

Now the real problem identified: How do we get the same level of integration on a Mac such that Office documents can appear embedded within a Browser;

- Safari
- Firefox
- Mozilla
- Netscape
- Opera
- Camino

... that you get on windoze under IE6, any Idea?

Thanks

Daver

thoule - Dec 16, 2005 - 11:33 am

Hi David-
Sorry for the slow response - I was unexpecdly away for a while.

I don't know of any way to get a Mac to show an office document within a web browser. As far as I can tell, that is a feature of Windows and windows plugins. An Internet search turned up nothing as well.

Thanks
Todd

davidramsay - Dec 16, 2005 - 12:51 pm

Funny ain't it?

MS Office is available for the Mac and presumably the API calls are in there somewhere but no one in the open source community has taken advantage.

I must agree I have searched and re-searched the web for an answer but I too came up with nothing.

I do think that for Apple to be fully integrated into the Modern Office environment they need to be in front of everyone else. I would have thought that Apple could have got iWorks suite to integrate with Safari in a similar fashion and have documents translated and displayed in exactly the same fashion.

Thanks

davidramsay - Mar 7, 2006 - 5:58 pm

I would like to add to the knowledge base regarding the operation and automatic opening of files.

The issue as I saw it originally was an MS SHarepoint one, in actual fact it is part of Mac OS X which is preventing the auto opening of files. This has recently been reported on several bulletin boards but to make sure;

If you google DownloadAssessment you will find that there is a page which indicates that a user can overide Apples defualt file protection openeing mechanism by adding a file to the ~/library/preferences by adding a file

com.apple.DownloadAssessment.plist

... the content can be ascertained from the googled links. Note that this is regarded as an unsupported solution by Apple.

thoule - Mar 8, 2006 - 7:39 am

Hi David
Thanks for the information! That's good to know. Apple wants to take the more secure road and not auto-open files after downloading- this way, they are not at fault if a download causes a problem. Hence, the 'safe' files. I'll share your information here. Let me know if I can help further!
Todd

davidramsay - Mar 8, 2006 - 1:31 pm

Appreciate the reason Apple doesn't want to open files such as these, but they are then hiding the solution away.

If Apple wish to take part in the mainstream of business then they need to provide solutions and not regard it is a threat. Personnally in the instance I was researching the use of SharePoint with Anti-Virus on files on that server would mean that the content should be safe.

The problem now is to get SharePoint to use an anti-virus solution that can handle Mac compression!

Thanks for response.

David