Mac AFP clients can not see mac files synchronized by dfs

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Anyone have experience with this?

I have 2 windows 2003 servers running dfs. They are synchronized files
each others. The files include mac files. I can see and open the mac
files on the primary server well (using AFP), but not in the other
server. I cannot see any mac files when connecting to secondary server
using AFP. I can see them using SMB but the files can’t be opened.

Anyone can help me solving this problem?
 
al3x20 said:
Anyone have experience with this?

I have 2 windows 2003 servers running dfs. They are synchronized files
each others. The files include mac files. I can see and open the mac
files on the primary server well (using AFP), but not in the other
server. I cannot see any mac files when connecting to secondary server
using AFP. I can see them using SMB but the files can’t be opened.

Anyone can help me solving this problem?
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If you're using Microsoft's File Services for Macintosh, it is not made
to work with dfs.

You will need to look into a third party product such as ExtremeZ-IP
from http://www.grouplogic.com. I believe it has this capability.

Hope this helps! bill
 
William Smith said:
If you're using Microsoft's File Services for Macintosh, it is
not made
to work with dfs.

You will need to look into a third party product such as
ExtremeZ-IP
from http://www.grouplogic.com. I believe it has this
capability.

Hope this helps! bill
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Thank’s a lot Bill.
I’ll try your advise. I truly apreciate that.
 
Bill's note on DFS and SFM is correct, and the same limitation applies to
clustered shares as well. Regarding SMB mac clients I'd expect this is more
a security settings issue. Mac clients do not map permissions one to one
with Windows servers. Please give the SMB share a try with a different set
of security settings and let us know how it goes.
 
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