Hello, I just took over the technology department for a school district that is using both MAC and Windows machines. They want students to be able to access their user folder from both Windows and MAC. Is this possible?

There is no AD for mac! AD deals with windows ONLY attributes. Mac networks are meant to be you plug it up and it works. At least with the Appletalk standard(classic guy here) you just made yourself into a host or server and anyone that wanted to connect simply went into chooser and double clicked on your server. As long as they had the user name/password they got access. But those were the OS 9 and prior days when things were better. Only MS would dream of a complex POS software like AD that can disable or enable certain rights and files and permissions. Apple = simplicity MS = complication In OS-X it now uses TCP/IP for appletalk like function(god why?!), but it pretty much runs in a similar fashion except extremely limited compared to appletalk. Your get a "public" folder now and anything inside it is visible to people on the network, in a nut shell. Core 2 Duo 1.86 2GB DDR 667 ASUS P5L-MX Nvidia 8500GT 500/1000

Mac OS X supports active directory. Search google: mac active directory for specific how-toos. Much of it is built-in to OS X. Also can use Samba.