When the Macintosh computers on your network don’t have a Macintosh server to control them, the result can be chaotic. Some users wind up with multiple passwords to keep track of while others give up by keeping their account passwords blank. Passwords to Windows resources can expire without warning because users have no PC to reset them with, and machines can be reconfigured with passwords that aren’t even documented.

It’s ten o’clock at night when you get the call: The art department’s having an issue on the XServe. On Mac OS X, you could use Apple Remote Desktop to access the machine, but Apple doesn’t offer administration tools for Windows. How can you control a Mac remotely when you aren’t using a Mac yourself?