Maybe some of you IT's can cure my curiosity.

Recently, ALCOAST 406/08 announced the issuance of CAC readers for reservists so we can log on to our e-mail from home. The interface is going to be Outlook Web Access. Now here's my question. What about us Macintosh folks? Does OWA work through Safari, Firefox, or Cameo? The only copy of Internet Explorer I have is 5.2 Mac. I'm not sure if that's new enough.

I read that OWA Lite is supported by Safari but will the lite version be approved for use by the CG?

Thanks in advance.
-Greg

If you have access to a workstaion go to
http://cgweb.tiscom.uscg.mil/downloads/remtacc_dwnld.htm there is OWA setup instruction for MAC and diffrent browsers.

Thanks

It says link no longer there. I just got my take home Cac reader today

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Originally posted by ROMEO1005:
It says link no longer there. I just got my take home Cac reader today

If you are talking about the link a few posts up from this, I just tried it and it works fine. You need to be at a work computer to access it. The needed files are towards the bottom of the page. Burn them to CD from your work computer and bring 'em home to install on the home computer.

Any questions, let me know. I've had this set up for a while now at home. It is especially great when I travel either on leave or TAD to have the access, although, now that I have a Good device, I rarely use the OWA.

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Originally posted by original_ftg:
If you are talking about the link a few posts up from this, I just tried it and it works fine. You need to be at a work computer to access it. The needed files are towards the bottom of the page. Burn them to CD from your work computer and bring 'em home to install on the home computer.

Any questions, let me know. I've had this set up for a while now at home. It is especially great when I travel either on leave or TAD to have the access, although, now that I have a Good device, I rarely use the OWA.

Are you using OWA on your Mac? I've struggled with this for months and ended up giving up out of frustration. I still use OWA, but I'm running XP on a Virtual Machine and get in that way.

The best I was able to do with OSX was to see my Inbox using Safari, but opening messages just got me an HTTP 500 error...

We advise our users not to even try to setup webmail on OSX and those that do should do so at their own risk...

To original poster - I wouldn't expect the CG to look too hard at getting OWA working reliably on OSX. We're a Windows shop and will be until either DoD or DHS tells us otherwise, which means there's not a lot of pressure for the CG to figure out how to play nice with OSX...

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Originally posted by fmrRadioman:

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Originally posted by original_ftg:
If you are talking about the link a few posts up from this, I just tried it and it works fine. You need to be at a work computer to access it. The needed files are towards the bottom of the page. Burn them to CD from your work computer and bring 'em home to install on the home computer.

Any questions, let me know. I've had this set up for a while now at home. It is especially great when I travel either on leave or TAD to have the access, although, now that I have a Good device, I rarely use the OWA.

Are you using OWA on your Mac? I've struggled with this for months and ended up giving up out of frustration. I still use OWA, but I'm running XP on a Virtual Machine and get in that way.

The best I was able to do with OSX was to see my Inbox using Safari, but opening messages just got me an HTTP 500 error...

We advise our users not to even try to setup webmail on OSX and those that do should do so at their own risk...

To original poster - I wouldn't expect the CG to look too hard at getting OWA working reliably on OSX. We're a Windows shop and will be until either DoD or DHS tells us otherwise, which means there's not a lot of pressure for the CG to figure out how to play nice with OSX...

Nope...XP for me too.

FmrRadioman.. you will get that Http error when tryin to open messages. The inbox you are seeing when you OWA in is the Exchange Inbox(server in VA) you message tab in outlook is your pst file on your local server. OWA will not be able to see those

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Originally posted by CG_IT:
FmrRadioman.. you will get that Http error when tryin to open messages. The inbox you are seeing when you OWA in is the Exchange Inbox(server in VA) you message tab in outlook is your pst file on your local server. OWA will not be able to see those

That pretty much defeats the purpose of OWA if it throws a server error when you open a message doesn't it...

I'm not sure what the Personal Folders have to do with this discussion though. They don't even show up in OWA and shouldn't be related to the issue...

Use firefox on your mac instead of Safari and see if the error goes away. I'll test it on mine an get back to you.

I found a solution for mac users using OS 10.5.8 and scr331 with 5.25 firmware and safari 4.0.3, Go to militarycac.com, follow directions for mac as far as updates, adding x509 anchors etc, go into keychains, put in card, unlock card using padlock, put in pin, find certificate for email (encrypt, derive, etc) usually 2nd one on list, and right click on it, go to new identity, enter https://cgwebmail.uscg.mil, then another identity for https://cgwebmail.uscg.mil/, then new one for https://cgwebmail.uscg.mil/exchange . Exit out, then start safari, go to https://cgwebmail.uscg.mil, enter pin, works every time for my macbook using 10.5.8 and newest safari. Never worked before I added all three identities for the same certificate. NOTE: on militarycac.com, they use the wrong web site (its https) and wrong certificate (its the email certificate with all the derve, encrypt, etc in the cert details, not the dod ca-19, this one wont work).