we let Mac clients connect via CIFS and utilize standard AD authentication.

Please check the eLab Navigator (EMC Support Matrix) for supported Mac OS X versions

In that case - CIFS

the latest mac os I see listed in eLab Navigator is 10.6.6. We have some mac 10.6.7 clients hitting dart 5.6.45.5 and we have inconsistent results coping files from the mac client to the celerra.

Sometimes the folder does copy over however it is grayed out and non-accessible. If the folder is compressed as a .SIT file then it copies just fine.

Jim,

we had oddities like that as well, went to the latest DART and it seems to be fine now. ( i am on 5.6.51-3)

I'll second these comments.  Apple seems to change code in key components with each and every release.  For the last four years, I've had to plan for a DART upgrade following the release of 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 and now 10.7.  In each case, Apple's changes in the CIFS code (I'm talking about Apple's additional changes and Finder integration, not SAMBA) has always resulted in incompatability or strange behavior on our Celerras.  I know what it's like to have a small staff, but if you have Mac users who will run the latest-and-greatest from Apple, you'll have to plan for it.

We had users on 10.7 connecting to our Celerra the day the pre-release beta was available.  It was dumb luck they didn't manage to crash the thing (search Powerlink for this - you'll get a chuckle). Plan for updates when new Mac OS release come out, or you risk problems like the 10.7 beta.

Karl

Upgrading DART would make a lot of sense

5.6.45 was released in July 2009

MacOS 10.6.7 was released in May 2011

Yes, we are part of the MacOS beta program, but no one in the software business can anticipate client changes two years in advance …..

Rainer

ok, we'll have to look into the upgrade. small staff and lots of storage leads to downrevved code :-)

thanks.