May
03
Mac OS X 10.4 – Initial Observations
ByAfter having an opportunity to work wtih mac OS 10.4 over the weekend, I’ve discovered a couple of items related to Macintosh integration with SBS. Updates to the existing posts will be made over the next few days as time permits, and more information will be posted as I am able to test more integration features.
- The .local problem has been fixed. A fresh install of Mac OS 10.4 was able to access SMB shares without making any modifications whatsoever to the network settings on the Mac.
- SMB signing still has to be disabled on the SBS server in order for Macs runnign 10.4 to connect to SMB shares.
- Safari is now able to handle the authentication calls fo the companyweb site both on the local network and across the internet. The same also applies to accessing the server performance report and server usage report on the Administrator view of Remote Web Workplace.
2 Comments
May 4th, 2005 at 4:45 pm
I too upgraded to 10.4 for testing this past weekend. I was happy to see how easy a clean 10.4 connected to my .local domain. My happiness was short lived. After I successfully joined the domain, I couldn’t logon using remote home directories nor could I map to any shares. Like you I then disabled SMB signing to see if that helped and it did. I then was messing around and unbound the Mac from the domain and tried to rebind it to the domain (SMB signing is disabled this time) and it can not join the domain now. So it appears that to share file you need it disabled, but to join the domain you need it enabled. On top of that, Apple told us that 10.4 could handle MS NTLMv2 and Kerberos which I have yet to see happen. Do you have any ideas? I am fresh out.
May 5th, 2005 at 6:37 am
Hm. I hadn’t run into that myself. Let me see if I can replicate the scenario.