[Casper] DFS Shares

[Ryan Harter]

Well, we use ADmit Mac here for that purpose and I hate it.  Thursby  
is a very slow moving company and they always seem to come out with  
updates that have some pretty major bugs (see current bug #1) then fix  
them in the next release but break something else.  I've reported the  
aforementioned bug last september (or whenever 10.5.5 came out) and  
they still haven't officially released the fix.

Their update cycle is slow and doesn't really work they way we would  
like.

I might suggest going with Dave instead of ADmit Mac if you don't need  
the AD binding stuff.  Dave is just their DFS stuff, without taking  
over AD binding.  You could use Dave and Apple's AD plugin since  
Thursby tends to screw too much stuff up/.

Current bug #1: On their current client, we are stuck at 10.5.4  
because the client locks up the machine on login on newer updates.   
They gave us a pre-release dev build of 4.1.3 to see if the problem is  
there.  I tested it and and the problems is gone, but they haven't  
release 4.1.3 yet, so I'm running my campus of a dev preview.  I asked  
in January when they were planning to release 4.1.3 and they didn't  
know, and I haven't seen it yet.

This has been reported to Apple a long time ago, and I'm hoping  
something will change.  If you can find a way to not go with the  
Thursby products that's what I would recommend.

Ryan Harter
UW - Stevens Point
Workstation Developer
715.346.2716
Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu

On Apr 22, 2009, at 12:26 PM, gallaghersj at chop.edu wrote:

> I am looking to see if anyone could share their experience with me  
> in using either ADMit MAC, and or recommend another solution that  
> will enable Mac clients to connect to DFS shares. We are going to be  
> using them for home directories, and department shared folders.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean J. Gallagher
> Platform Engineering
>
> Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
> Wanamaker Bldg. 100 Penn Square
> Philadelphia, PA. 19102
> Phone: 267-426-2607
> Cell: 215-910-1551
>
>
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