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Product Guide
Mac OS X Tiger
Windows compatibility features in Mac OS X Tiger include the following.
Active Directory. Tiger has built-in support for Microsoft’s proprietary Active Directory
service, including Microsoft Kerberos authentication. Mac OS X can read from the
Active Directory server, allowing Mac OS X users to participate in Windows-managed
networks. Mac OS X also supports the advanced configuration capabilities in Active
Directory that allow it to discover the most optimal Active Directory domain controller
and to use another Active Directory server in the event of a server failure.
Authentication. With Tiger, you can log in to a Windows network from a Mac with
the same user name and password you would use on a Windows PC. Mac OS X has
built-in support for the Microsoft Kerberos authentication technologies included with
Microsoft’s Active Directory server. You also benefit from the single sign-on capabili-
ties enabled by the Kerberos authentication technology. Single sign-on means you can
enter your user name and password once when you log in to the computer, and you
are automatically authenticated to other “Kerberized” servers on the network, such as
Microsoft Exchange servers, file servers, and web application servers. Tiger also supports
Microsoft’s legacy authentication protocols NTLMv1 and NTLMv2.
Windows-based home directory. On managed networks, you can store your home
directory on a network server, giving you access to your files from any computer on
the network. When you authenticate to the network, your computer gets information
about the location of your home directory from the directory server and makes it
available. The AFP file server protocol designed for the Mac is the ideal platform on
which to host network home directories for Mac clients, but Mac OS X is also capable
of accessing home directories stored on SMB/CIFS-based file servers. This allows you
to connect to the same home directory from either a Windows PC or a Mac.
Microsoft Exchange. You can use Mac OS X Mail to send and receive email from
Microsoft Exchange Server, and you can keep your personal Address Book contents
in sync with Exchange Server. Tiger supports the IMAP4 protocol on Exchange Server
2000 and Exchange Server 2003 for email.
Windows printing. Tiger supports the native Windows printing protocol (SMB) for
peer-to-peer printing or printing to a managed print server. This also allows Tiger users
to share printers with Windows users.
Remote secure connections. The Internet Connect application in Mac OS X supports
the industry-standard L2TP/IPSec VPN technology for secure remote access to corpo-
rate networks protected by Cisco, Microsoft, and Apple VPN servers.
No special Mac configuration required. Accommodating a Mac on a Windows-
managed network doesn’t require any special back-end server configuration. The
Mac can connect to the same servers using the same configurations as those used by
Windows PCs. While Windows servers have offered special Mac support in the past,
accommodating those services required additional software and special configurations.
Rather than relying on Mac services being available in Windows servers, Mac OS X now
includes built-in support for Windows technologies like Active Directory, Microsoft
Kerberos, SMB/CIFS, SMB printing, and IPSec-based VPN.