#MAC OS STORAGE MANAGEMENT WINDOWS#
If one instead waits for the non-Windows platform to behave just like Windows with otherwise Windows-only devices - or 3rd-party devices that have done nothing either to accommodate the non-Windows platform in question - then there will be problems. In other words: If someone as an admin is tasked with supporting any platform that isn't Windows, it can be great if you do the necessary work. We could instead say "Server 2008 and earlier and many NAS vendors provide extremely poor support for non-Windows clients," which is another way of looking at it -) Yes they can work over networks, and when done right they are greatįalse with regards to accessing network storage. Macs are great, as long as you don't need to access network storage, as you would on the windows side. Just wondered if anyone has used SMB between OS X 10.11 machines, in production environments yet.
#MAC OS STORAGE MANAGEMENT MAC#
Well you can configure the Mac to do this as the option is still present, but when configured you cannot login with a domain account, therefore AFP is not an option for me until Apple fix the bug, if they ever do. There is a bug in OS X 10.11, confirmed by Acronis and Apple, where you cannot configure OS X 10.11 to use AFP with network homes, when bound to Active Directory. I'm curious why you would want to do that? I have Server 5 running and some Mac 10.11 clients connecting to it but I have never forced them to connect via SMB because AFP is native. Not helpful at all but my question is why? You have AFP available on both ends. Does anyone have experience using SMB in a similar config?
#MAC OS STORAGE MANAGEMENT PRO#
Has anyone had experience with using SMB between OS X 10.11 OS X 10.11?įor example if I had a iMac (client) running OS X 10.11, and a Mac Pro (server) running OS X 10.11 with OS X Server 5. One change client-side (Mac OS X) you may wish to try is to edit/create /etc/nf - i.e.: In which case some of the modifications below may not apply. UPDATED : Newer versions of OS X will use SMB3 when the server supports it (Server 2012R2 for example).
In limited testing, I have seen excellent results between even 10.10 and Server2012R2 SMB. With 10.11, reports are that AFP can be problematic for network homes (which are in and of themselves becoming problematic with 10.11 as found by many Mac admins), and although AFP is still supported, the default file-sharing protocol is SMB. You can read more about the vfs_fruit module (with thanks to Ralph Böhme and the whole Samba team !) here:Īnd find some more discussion about it here at SW in relation to various storage options here: If you're working with Mac clients running OS X 10.10 or earlier, hands-down your best option is AFP as provided by OS X Server, or with a Windows-only server environment, Acronis Acronis Access Connect (Formerly known as ExtremeZ-IP, and/as acquired from GroupLogic).Īnother option where you have Linux servers, is Samba with the vfs_fruit module enabled.
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