Using Macbook pro when I'm not supposed to in windows world

[belvdr]

After all, you might be stealing company data or whatever other paranoid BS they might have in mind.

Because stealing company data or using company data on an unauthorized machine isn't a big deal. Why should they care?

 

[InfoSecmgr]

Hehe, I would love to have a competent IT guy like you. Ours are unfortunately... well let's just say not the brightest bulbs.

Thank you for the concern though, even if I could run a Cat5 cable into the room to use it, (old old building built around 1890s-1900...) I still have the same issue as currently. ie I connect to the network but I can't get internet access even though it assigns me an IP and I can access intranet websites... because I need to figure out where I need to authenticate to get to the internet.

I'm rather skeptical they would terminate me, rather just be annoyed an report me to my superiors (who feel the same way about the IT people... who incidentally got upset when we purchased(with our own personal funds) our own more reliable printer and installed it... because they had to come by to bolt it down lol)

Yeah I doubt they would outright fire you, a warning perhaps. Let us know how it works out

 

[lkirkup]

Macs pollute windows networks with files every time you open something in finder. You are on a countdown.

open up a terminal and type in

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

and you will no longer leave these "traces" on the network.

 

[DeepIn2U]

@fibrizo,

By chance are you located in Ontario working for said provincial government?! Around the same day not 1 but 2 users connected a Airport Extreme router and a Mac (probably a MacBook Pro) to the network. MAC was definitely the trigger and boom Telus who manages the network routers/switches had ITSecurity create a ticket and bingo what was one I had to call user up on. he knew he what he was up to as well. Funny thing is Telus/IT Security gave the ok to cut-off LAN at clients desk - which means a cost to activate it again gets Manager & Director notification - not something you want for a measly $154 one-time cost that could've been avoided. Oh well, nice to know a few Mac users out there manage Windows networks and are really frugal about allowances.