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From: Rob on 20 Apr 2010 12:36
Because: "We don�t support Macs because of problems with authentication
and security", according to our (university) IT tech people.

I could understand the support argument, but security and authentication?

I'd asked if I could have access to a Mac to do some blunt editing of a
pdf - they're installing Acrobat Pro on the work PC.

Rob
From: Elliott Roper on 20 Apr 2010 12:38
In article <VJkzn.141359$4L6.126784(a)newsfe22.ams2>, Rob
<patchoulianREMOVE(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Because: "We don�t support Macs because of problems with authentication
> and security", according to our (university) IT tech people.
>
> I could understand the support argument, but security and authentication?
>
> I'd asked if I could have access to a Mac to do some blunt editing of a
> pdf - they're installing Acrobat Pro on the work PC.

That would be your IT peoples' security and authenticity.

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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 20 Apr 2010 12:45
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:36:05 +0100, Rob <patchoulianREMOVE(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>Because: "We don�t support Macs because of problems with authentication
>and security", according to our (university) IT tech people.
>
>I could understand the support argument, but security and authentication?

Is there a campus-wide Windows Active Directory domain (or group of
domains) that all the Windows boxes authenticate against, and get
their configuration, drive mount mappings, lock-down instructions etc
from?

Macs don't really integrate with that sort of thing much. They do a
bit, but not the lockdowns - and if the campus IT rules were written
daftly as if every workstation is Windows, then that would mean Mac
and Linux machines are verboten because they don't support required
features.

>I'd asked if I could have access to a Mac to do some blunt editing of a
>pdf - they're installing Acrobat Pro on the work PC.

Wince. Well, good luck.

Cheers - Jaimie
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From: Conor on 20 Apr 2010 13:32
On 20/04/2010 17:36, Rob wrote:
> Because: "We don�t support Macs because of problems with authentication
> and security", according to our (university) IT tech people.
>
> I could understand the support argument, but security and authentication?
>
Yes. They can't push patches and it relies on the user doing them rather
than them having a policy on that workstation/desktop/laptop which
allows them to push an update. Windows is actually quite good in this
respect from an administration point of view.
..
Windows Vista/7 etc require modifications to the registry to enable NTLMV2.

Other than that, there shouldn't be an issue.


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From: Woody on 20 Apr 2010 15:16
On 20/04/2010 17:36, Rob wrote:
> Because: "We don�t support Macs because of problems with authentication
> and security", according to our (university) IT tech people.
>
> I could understand the support argument, but security and authentication?
>
> I'd asked if I could have access to a Mac to do some blunt editing of a
> pdf - they're installing Acrobat Pro on the work PC.

Well, ultimately it doesn't make much difference for doing PDF stuff

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