Software deployment

Hello
Im planning on adding macs onto a windows network/domain.
We use ghost to image machines and deploy software to workstations.
Can anyone help with deploying software to mac workstations after they are added onto the network.
Thanks
David

Don't map over your knowledge of Microsoft Windows and try to replicate a specific solution. That leads to frustration. Mac boxes are (usually) easy, but they're definitely (very) different from Windows.
You can network boot the client boxes from your own "distribution" using netboot for instance, or you can create your own disk images. All this stuff is baked into Mac OS X Server.
See the System Imaging & Software Update Administration manual in [the doc set|http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/resources/documentation.html]; you'll probably be looking in the User Management manual and the Network Services manual and mayhap directory services. Workgroup management for sure.
You're probably familiar with VNC, and Apple has that and ARD available for remote client access.
The archives of the MACENTERPRISE mailing list will probably be of interest here, too.
http://www.macenterprise.org
http://lists.psu.edu/archives/macenterprise.html

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