We are a predominately PC office, with hundreds of Windiws 2000 machines and maybe a dozen or more XP stations. One piece of software does not work on Windows, but other institutions have no problem with the Mac version. Our IT staff refuses to support the Apple platform in any way. Regardless of their opipions, we need this software to function. What problems are there exactly when networking a Mac into a Windows based system? I have done it before on lower end networks, but not with this many total machines. As far as I can tell is the Mac would only really need to be a "file-server" for less than a dozen other machines.
Hurdles when networking Macs with Windows?
They can coexists. If one mac can coexist with two pc, it can coexist with many.
Mac is Unix based OS. You can put that mac with samba protocol if you want to see pc files from mac. If you want to share files from your mac to the other machines, you can put an ftp server. That's all.
In our company, we have a large scale network with both, linux, pc and mac. Some experts work with images and other media in their macs and share their work by uploading it to a common drive. Some times you can access them directly by FTP or Samba..
Hope this helps. And it is very common to have hybrid networks.-
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