This behavior is referred to as Access Based Enumeration. This is a feature of Microsoft Dfs which is controllable by a group policy in Active Directory. This is a feature which is frequently requested be added to the Windows OpenAFS client as it ensures that applications do not attempt to access files for which the user has no permissions. This reduces the overhead cost of remote file systems and ensures that a client cannot cause access denied storms by attempting to walk directory trees that cannot
When Lion shipped one of the new features was Microsoft DFS support. There were many blog postings about how it didn't work properly in 1.7.0. Perhaps they have "fixed" things in later updates. On Wednesday, May 02, 2012 6:45:19 PM, Richard Brittain wrote: > We just figured out that what manifests as an OpenAFS problem is > almost certainly a Mac Finder issue in 10.7 (testing with OpenAFS > 1.6.1, but probably was true for earlier) > > It seems that the 10.7 Finder now wants 'r' ACL as well as 'l' ACL > before it will show anything. Browsing through a directory with 'l' > only gives a blank screen (no permission error message), and you can't > get any further. We had this situation on the top levels of volumes > holding shared data. > > Apparently this Finder change also broke access to CIFS shares with > the same permission layout - apparently there are equivalent ACLs in > the CIFS world, and our Windows admins were muttering about the same > problem. > > This might be old news, but I don't see it mentioned anywhere. > > Richard
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