Getting my Macintosh Powerbook working with Small Business Server 2003

This hasn't been nearly as hard a project as I thought. I have a few customers now that have Mac's in their environment, and I bought my 6 year old daughter a Mac for her birthday. Sooo, I found one customer that bought an extra Powerbook (the small one), so we decided to trade it for my time to setup a new SBS 2003 installation.

It's been years (1996?) since I switched from using the mac to focusing on windows based machines.

The first thing I noticed was how wierd it was to get used to the Apple key for shortcuts instead of the ctrl key. The next thing was just some of the settings I needed to make to SBS 2003 to get the services running on the server. Here goes...

First, I'm using SBS 2003 with sp1, and exchange is patched to sp2. The Mac is version 10.4.5

So, Here are the major steps (I'm not going into much detail on the 'why' here. If you have questions, post them and I'll be more than happy to answer them):

For the Windows Machine1) Setup File Services for Macintosh on SBS 2) Configure the File Server 3) Create Shares

For the Macintosh 1) Enable Appletalk 2) Configure Directory Access 3) Connect to the Server

Sooo... Windows Setup

1) Setup File Services for Macintosh on SBS
a) Open Add or Remove Programs on Control Panel
b) Click Add/Remove Windows Components
c) Select Other Network File and Print Services and click details
d) Enable File Services for Macintosh
e) Click OK
f) Click Next
g) Wait for the components to install, and click Finish
h) Close the Windows installer and the Add or Remove Programs Control Panel

2) Configure File Server for Macintosh - We have to configure the server so that the mac clients can see the server and access the share volume. Since the services for Macintosh is configured only to allow connections from the Macintosh clients that have the Microsoft User Authentication Module (UAM) installed. I didn't use this. I was more concerned with getting this to work than the underlying security (that being said, now that it works I need to go back and get more serious in this area). Follow these steps to get the clear text auth method and the server name that the Macs will see:

a) Right-click on My Computer (server) and select manage
b) Right-click on Shared Folders and select Configure File Server for Macintosh
c) Change Enable Authentication to Apple Clear Text or Microsoft (you know what I picked)
d) Click apply and then click OK
e) Make note of the server name listed in the Server Name for AppleTalk Workstations field. You'll need this later.

3) Create the Server Shares - Your current shares won't be seen by the mac. You need to create new shares that specifically work with the mac. All new shares can work with both. I've got a separate checklist I use when setting up new SBS Servers that may at some point use macs. I'll blog this in a separate entry.

a) Right Click on My Computer and select Manage
b) Expand the Shared Folders Icon
c) Right-click on Shares and select New Share
d) Click Next
e) Enter the path to the folder on the HD or click Browse to select the Folder
f) Click Next
g) If the folder selected is already shared to your Windows clients, uncheck the Microsoft Windows Users check box.
h) Enable the Apple Macintosh Users check box and enter a name for the share in the Share Name field
i) Click Next
j) Click Finish
k) Click Close
l) Right Click on the new share and select properties
m) Uncheck the This Volume is Read-Only check box and click OK
n) Close the properties window

Now, on the Mac side....

1) Enabling Appletalk is done in the System Preferences...
a) Go to the Apple menu, and Select System Preferences (I'll insert a screen shot here sometime when I'm not doing anything important...you know, between 2am and 3am)...
b) Click the Network Icon
c) Select the Built-in Ethernet and click Configure
d) Click the Appletalk Tab and enable the Make AppleTalk Active checkbox
e) Click Apply Now and close the system preferences

2) Directory Access Changes -
a) Open the Directory Access application by selecting Macintosh HD, Applications, Utilities, Directory Access.
b) Click the lock to make changes.


3) Connect to the Server - Mounting the volume... There are two ways for you to do this, but I've documented how I do it...

a) For the first way, you'll hit Command (dear lord, that's the apple key) K (apple key plus the 'k' key).
b) At this point, you'll enter afp://servername, where servername is the Appletak name of the server listed in the File Server for Macintosh properties. ( I told you you'd need it later).
c) Click Connect
d) Enter the username and password to connect to the server
e) Select the volumes you want to mount and click OK. The volumes will mount on the desktop.

I'll post more... I've got the mac accessing the Exchange Server, I have a VPN into the SBS Server, and am able to use Remote Desktop for the Mac to manage the Server... Something else, but I forget...