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Where I work we have a room of Apple Mac (performa I think) computers. Afaik We have a mac server, the rest of the site is on WinNT (I think) along with NT work stations, I think the plan is to get the macs to talk to the rest of the network. so they can surf the net or allow the users to save their work to the main server.
There is an SMB client for the Mac, called "dave" IIRC this should talk to NT.
According to one of the technicians (I help him with cabling etc), the TCP/IP can also talk appletalk, I am not sure about this but I have read that it's possible to stick a linux box in between the two systems.As Linux can talk and understand both it can act as a I would guess a translator or whatever the correct term is, allowing both to co-exist, (someone in the US did this a few years ago, I can't seem to find the write up though).
There is a netatalk server for Linux, but to stick a box "in between", you'd also have to do automounting of the shares on the NT server and map authentication requests. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763