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File Sharing Difficulties Frustrate Tiger Admins

Posted by Zonk on from the catch-the-kitty-by-the-tail dept.

rmallico wrote in to mention a story currently running on Eweek about technical difficulties sites running Tiger are experiencing. From the article: "A number of sites running Apple's new 'Tiger' operating system are experiencing problems with SMB file sharing and authentication with Microsoft's Active Directory, Ziff Davis Internet News has learned. Although Apple Computer Inc.'s Tiger increases support for Server Message Block file sharing and Active Directory, several sources say that the Finder fails to log on to Windows and Linux Samba file servers."

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  1. Active Directory by October_30th · · Score: 1, Troll

    Interesting. I didn't know you could authenticate non-Windows computers with Microsoft Active Directory servers. It's rather surprising that Microsoft supports such interoperability.

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  2. One thing I noticed by DrXym · · Score: 0, Troll
    For all Apple's alleged attempts at ease of use, you still have to type the "smb://" at the front of the address in the Connect to Server or it assumes you meant afp. It's almost as if supporting SMB is some dirty secret they don't want anyone to know about. A button offering the choice wouldn't go amiss.

    And in general, the Network area in Finder is very flakey, either not finding my server (unless I type it), or seeing it but hanging the whole Finder while it tries to connect and fails. I also appear to have a mysterious "rfc1918.space.should.not.be.used.on.publicips" entry in there, whatever that is.

  3. Re:Oh, right, error code -36! by NeedleSurfer · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well in all fairness, have anyone ever solved any Windows crash by reading a blue screen? No, the information presented there is totally useless to anyone but the person who develloped the software. And even then.

    this goes hand in hand with the concept that most "programmers" do it to impress people with their "intelligence" and "skillz", if you see a BSOD and pretend its usefull, you get extra auntie-impress points.

    There is no use telling something to the user if what you tell him has no use...

  4. I don't think they've ever fixed this. by Quazi · · Score: 0, Troll

    I remember v10.1.5, 10.2, 10.3, and a rash of updates in between that all claim to have "addressed SMB issues". When they've supposedly "addressed it" that many times, and we are at 10.4 and it's STILL BROKEN, I think they ought to disable the feature altogether.