On Oct 22, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Oct 22, 2013, at 2:30 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> OS X 10.9 is available. And it's free to anyone who can run App store >> (10.6.8 or better.) >> >> >> DL'ing it now. Very very very slowly…Supposedly this one will make my newish >> MBA run a week on some spit and sunshine, clear up my acne and make my farts >> smell of unicorns. > > Once I got it downloaded, installed and running, I had some other tasks that > took me about a half hour, then turned to the updated Mac to do some testing > on our network, in particular our problematic SAN, which has some weird-ass > issue with Windows DFS shares that meant Macs using DFS would be denied > access the first few times they tried connecting. > > (DFS is Windows technology for basically making ‘aliases’ for network volumes > so you can maintain what the end user sees ‘accounting dept’ while being able > to move the actual storage location in the background to different servers, > etc). > > Well Apple fixed it. I can no longer connect to our DFS shares at all, and > locked my account trying. > > Within ten minutes of me figuring this out (and note, this is about 3:30 our > time, 10.9 has been available for all of two hours) the first person comes to > our door ‘I can’t connect to the VPN or workgroups with 10.9’. The ARS article I linked earlier talks about changes and implementation of DFS 2.0. -- Brian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
