Mac in a Windows/Dell network environment.

I work in a nearly exclusively Windows & Dell environment at a company with approximately 10K employees worldwide.
Our applications as well as our software updates and network drive permissions are all delivered via a centralized service.
For a variety of reasons, I have begun to argue for using a MacBook Air. My main arguement is that since I both travel and work with Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, the micro size and huge trackpad are a great combo. Apparently, the 320m graphics card is decent enough to support my very seldom use of CAD, and will drive my 30" display.
That's the Cliffs Notes version of the hardware justification. My software justification involves iPhoto and Finder being great tools to sort images, Office 2011 supporting full-screen, etc.
MY QUESTIONS:
1) Anyone with experience using a Mac in a Windows-only tightly-secured network?
2) Testing my personal Mac on the network, I can right away see that our timesheep SAP application doen't work, and neither does our online booking tool for travel. Would these be failures on the browser side or is it simply because it's a Mac and is identified by different permissions?
3) Any experience with the little keypads you use to generate a VPN key? Does it work the same with OS X's built-in VPN support than Cisco's stand-alone Windows applications?
4) How does Microsoft Outlook setup differ between platforms? Anything to watch out for?
OK, I've marked this as a question, but if you have any info or experience to share setting up a Mac in an all-Windows environment aside from answering the above, please feel free.
Thanks in advance users or IT folks for your help.
- Chris H.

Try to connect by doing the following steps:
1-in finder > go > connect to server
2-write SMB://ur-server-IP/
3-press enter
4-select the volume
5-type ur username and password.
Also I have this problem with G4 (10.4.11) but it happens cuz the Data and time reset to 1970, solve it by change Data and time.

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rversed wrote:
Basically, from my research, I need to get my Mac connected on the "homegroup" of the Windows network.
If a Windows computer was sharing the printer that you want to connect to, then this would be the correct action to take. But if the printer is networked, either wired or wireless, and not shared by a Windows computer then you could connect your Mac directly to the printer if you connect to the same network.
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rversed wrote:
However, when I try to connect, it asks me for a username and password. My computer doesn't have a password -- and I don't want to put one because it's a shared computer. Is there a default password? Or am I forced to put a password on that computer?
When you want to connect to a Windows shared printer you will get prompted to enter a Windows username and password before you see the shared printer. So you do not enter your Mac user details. Have you been provided with a Windows account you can use?

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Try to connect by doing the following steps:
1-in finder > go > connect to server
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connection at home, the few times I'm going to use
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Correct
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Windows only environment, will I be able to configure
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Well, that's certainly some setup you've got there.
Also, if I try to access either the Router or the WAP via their respective Access URL's: http://10.0.1.1/ & http://10.0.1.2/ nothing happens.
I'm not sure about those URL's. Plug your PowerMac into the router , then launch Safari and type 192.168.1.100 in the address bar it should allow you to access the routers settings via the web-based utility. Please check and see if that much that works and post back.
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