Broadband for Mac OS X — High Speed Internet at Your Doorstep

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Broadband for Mac Os X continues to gain in popularity for the home with reasonable pricing and fast access and speed. A home without the Internet is like a house without an access road. It's hard for you to get anywhere, and it's hard for people to bring things to you. It works in the similar fashion for businesses as well.

Mac OS X combined with broadband access is very powerful and provides ease of use and flexibility due to stunning features of Mac OS X. With Mobile Home Directories in Mac OS X Server v10.4, you can centrally manage the home directories of your portable Mac clients and yet allow each user online and offline access from the office and the road. When a user goes offline, his home directory goes with him, so he can continue to work just as he would back at the office.

In addition, Broadband on the Mac allows your public folder to remain accessible to the network so co-workers can still drop files into the folder as well as see public files. When your reconnect your iBook or PowerBook to the network, Mac OS X automatically syncs up the home directory with the one on the server. You have the best of both worlds with this feature - you centrally manage your users' home directories and they have full desktop mobility.

Mac OS X with Broadband the Quickest and Easiest Path

In case of Broadband for Apple you don't need to load any drivers, even from modem manufacturers, because the Apples Mac has got them all built-in. All you need is to plug your connection. No need to work hard for hi-speed access on a Mac, it has the ability of automatic installation. The OS X Installer program will open and prompt you through the installation process.

Like most operating systems, Apple Mac OS X doesn't come out of the box to take full advantage of a high-speed, broadband connection. Luckily, because of its Unix base, there's an easy fix for that. By making certain tweaks to your network settings, you may be able to almost double your download speeds. A Broadband Optimizer in Mac OS X works by increasing the memory buffers used for TCP transfers, so that data comes in bigger chunks - broadband chunks, not modem-sized kiddie chunks. With Mac OS X Server v10.4 Tiger, Tiger Server makes it a snap to upgrade your aging Windows NT network to a Mac OS X server. The new NT Migration Tool automatically extracts all of your user and group account information from an existing Windows Primary Domain Controller and moves it into Open Directory. Mac OS X Server v10.4 Tiger Server can then take over as your Primary Domain Controller for your Windows clients and even host your Windows users' home directories, group folders, roaming profiles and shared printers.

Connecting Mac OS X to Windows PCs for File Sharing and Networking: Mac users often have to share files with Windows machines, both at work and home. Occasionally, using portable media such as a ZIP disk or a USB portable storage does the job nicely, but for daily use a cross-platform network is more robust. Apple has incorporated technologies into Mac OS X that allow easy file sharing among platforms. And with the release of Mac OS X 10.2, networking became even easier.

Because Mac OS 10.2 (Jaguar) contains a built in SMB/CIFS Server (Samba version 2.2.3a), viewing Mac files on the PC is straightforward. You can use your Network Neighborhood to view the shared folders on your Mac. To do that, you need to turn on the Windows File Sharing on your Mac, and check the Allow users to log in from Windows option. If the account you are setting is yourself, you need to type your password into the Current Password field before you can change the checkbox.

SMB stands for Server Message Block. It's a lightweight protocol designed to allow the sharing of files and printers in a small network. SMB has since been renamed to CIFS, or Common Internet File System. Mac OS X 10.1 contains only the SMB client, and thus you can only use SMB to browse for files on the PC, and not vice versa. Mac OS X 10.2 contains both the SMB client and server, and hence PC users can browse for files on a Macintosh.