Symantec Anti Virus - Windows clients and MAC's

Pash · July 2007

Anyone got any experience with intergrating Windows and MAC's in the same administration centre. I mean the ability to update with liveupdate and view the MAC's on the admin symantec mmc snap in.

Cheers,

taktsoi · July 2007

i am not sure if there' any alternative solution. however, officially, i don believe it supports MAC scanning under Windows.

http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/products/sysreq.jsp?pcid=1322&pvid=805_1

It slightly mentions there.

If anybody got anything that is able to support MAC, let me know. I am interested.

i m just curious, how do you come up this idea?

thanks

sprkymrk · July 2007

As far as I can tell, you would need a server for the Windows clients and a server for the Mac clients. Additionally, the console is different for each version, so you can't even create a server group with 2 servers (1 for Windows and 1 for Macs) as you would not be able to access them from the same console. Looks like the Mac version has a web GUI console that can be accessed by any computer running a supported Web browser including: Mac OS X + Safari 1.2.x, Windows XP Pro + Internet Explorer 6 SP2, and RedHat Linux + Netscape 7. So you could at least use a single XP/2K workstation to access both the Mac and Windows servers, just using different consoles.

So it looks to me like you cannot manage both OSes from a single interface unfortunately. You would only see either the Windows clients or the Mac clients, but not both.

Pash · July 2007

sprkymrk wrote:

As far as I can tell, you would need a server for the Windows clients and a server for the Mac clients. Additionally, the console is different for each version, so you can't even create a server group with 2 servers (1 for Windows and 1 for Macs) as you would not be able to access them from the same console. Looks like the Mac version has a web GUI console that can be accessed by any computer running a supported Web browser including: Mac OS X + Safari 1.2.x, Windows XP Pro + Internet Explorer 6 SP2, and RedHat Linux + Netscape 7. So you could at least use a single XP/2K workstation to access both the Mac and Windows servers, just using different consoles.

So it looks to me like you cannot manage both OSes from a single interface unfortunately. You would only see either the Windows clients or the Mac clients, but not both.

This was my fear, ill have to suggest this to them then.

Thanks guys,

Pash · July 2007

well the person who installed the MAC originally forgot to document or tell anyone the root user password. Awesome.

sprkymrk · July 2007

Pash wrote:

well the person who installed the MAC originally forgot to document or tell anyone the root user password. Awesome.

Boot the system from the Mac OS X installation CD and I think you can select the "Reset password" option.

blargoe · July 2007

FWIW, the next release of the Symantec corporate edition (11.0) WILL have the ability to manage Windows, Mac, and Linux clients from the same console.

Pash · July 2007

sprkymrk wrote:

Pash wrote:

well the person who installed the MAC originally forgot to document or tell anyone the root user password. Awesome.

Boot the system from the Mac OS X installation CD and I think you can select the "Reset password" option.

thanks mark, worked a treat.

blargoe wrote:

FWIW, the next release of the Symantec corporate edition (11.0) WILL have the ability to manage Windows, Mac, and Linux clients from the same console.

thanks blargoe for the heads up, ill inform the IT manager of this.

Symantec Anti Virus - Windows clients and MAC's

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