Mixed environment fun

[Chibbell]

Hello guys and gals. I've been having a few frustrating problems with the G4 on my mostly windows network. I'm a pretty nice guy and am not a hater of any OS. I figure I will try and get this one fix rather than dump them, like our Technology department has.

Ok. First question.

Is there anyway to force the user to sign into the Windows domain at startup like my windows users do? I would then want it to retain that authentication for access to the file server, etc.

Domain server is NT 4.

Next question.

This one is really really odd. When I goto look for printers on the network via the Windows Network option, I can see ALL the printers EXCEPT of course the one I want to print to. I can set it up via IP address and it seems to work fine. It is a Lexmark C910.

The first time you send something to print, it works fine. If you send something else to it, the app crashes. To fix it, you have to delete the printer and readd it. Now, if you print something, close the app, then reopen the app and goto print something else, it works. You just have to close the application between every print job.

Its possibly the strangest print problem I have ever seen. The only difference I can see is that the C910 used to be setup on Appletalk and none of the other printers were. No, I can't see it on Appletalk anymore though.

Any ideas? File and Print Server is Win 2003.

Last question.

Ok, this computer used to have the old version of Outlook on it. It would connect to the exchange server fine. No problems at all. All I had to do was pop in the name of one of the exchange servers and bam, it would find the agency the user was on and worked like a charm.

Then we upgraded office when the new Enterouge with Exchange support came out.

It can't find the Exchange server. It also killed the ability of the older Outlook to see the Exchange server. It keeps asking me for an SMTP and POP3 address, which is weird, because its Exchange. The Mail program with Panther can't see it either.

I don't run the Exchange server locally. It is elsewhere and has a domain trust relationship with my domain. It picks up my usernames and authenticates with it before serving up the email to the user. Right now my mac user can just use the Outlook Web Access but has its limitations.

Anyhow, I think thats about it. If anyone can help with any of these it is much appreciated.

[Chibbell]

Oh and btw, the Mac is a G4 with Panther 10.3.3 or whatever the latest update is up to.

[Tim Dorr Veteran]

I'm guessing you meant 10.3.1 ;)

If you can get a copy, a beta 10.3.2 update might help (it should be coming soon). It claims: "Mac OS X Client is reported to have improvements in Core OS, Graphics, Imaging, USB, Printing, International Text, Core Services, Cocoa Framework and Applescript."

It's worth a shot, and beta updates usually aren't anywhere near that buggy. They're basically seeded just to provide a larger testing audience then their own QA department.