Topic: problems with Mac OSX

[Russell]

With an influx of sexy looking Mac G4 laptops onto the network, I'm having networking problems with the Mac OSX OS. It's Unix BSD based OS and supports AppleTalk. The e-smith server appears on the AppleTalk network - indeed older Macs connect fine.... However....

The new OSX boxes see the server and authenticate, but at the point of mounting the share, I get a message something like... "the connection to the server has unexpectedly quit...."

Has anyone any experience with connecting OSX machines to the e-smith server?

cheers,

R

[Robert Boerner]

Couple of questions....

Which version of MacOS X? 10.1.?

Which version of SME Server 5.0, 5.1.2, 5.5beta?

I had (breif access to) a brand spanking new flat panel iMac running OS X 10.1.3 and was able to mount shares, copy files etc.

I did not to pound on this configuration, but it seemed to work for my at the time.

[Russell]

Hi Robert,

I'm using OSX 10.1.5.... SME version I'm not sure about...

How did you connect? SMB? Appletalk? using an IP address address or domain name?

cheers,

R

[Robert Boerner]

Well, you have the latest and greatest as far as Mac OS X goes...

You should be able to tell what version of SME you are using by looking at the home page in the server manager, of by logging onto the console of the server itself. Log in as admin to get to the text menu and the top of the screen should tell you which version.

The reason I am harping on this is that there have been many updates to Appletalk in the SME Server package that have solved a lot of peoples problems.

If my memory serves, I connected both ways, via an IP and a hostname. I just used the Go option on the menu bar.

[Russell]

Thanks Robert,

I didn't do the SME install. The company has inherited it.... we don't have the root password and so I guess I will have to fdisk the drive and reinstall?  Is it possible for a regular user to run the upgrade?

cheers,

R

[bob]

Russell,

To change the root and admin passwd see this link:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=12695.msg47690#msg47690

Bob

[Rich Lafferty]

Russell,

While we haven't formally qualified OS X against the SME Server, for
what it's worth, a couple of us here are using OS X successfully against 5.1.2
and 5.5, for both AppleShare and printing.

[James Arlen]

Heck - I'm using MacOSX 10.1.5 to connect quite happily with 4.1.2 using both Samba and Appletalk connections - it all just works (well, sometimes there's filename munging, but that's just life with HFS+) - using apple-K in the finder, put in smb://smeservername/sharename - then fill out the three piece panel that comes up (domain, username, password) and you're done.