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Hi All, I'm pulling my hair out here with home drives on a AD-OD network. We have Open Directory setup on one mac server with it authenticating against Active Directory. The users get their home drive location from the UNC path in Active Directory and all worked fine last year. I am just rolling over the users but am having major issues. At the begining i was getting "unable to login because an unknown error occured". I can get some year groups to work correctly but some years I keep getting this error. I can get year 7, 8 and 10 to work. If I set a year 9 pupil to a year 10's home drive all works correctly but I can't get it to work as I want it. Hope this makes sense but HELP! Dan

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone can shed any light on inability to save to a Network Home on the new iMovie (10+). We run our mac network just like any other, where the Home directories are mounted from the Mac server and we manage the Macs by Centrify Enterprise. The teachers would very much like to use iMovie 10+ however, it just fails so badly when we try to use it. Is there some sort of work around by using Symlinks or similar? This seems to be the same sort of issue, but not on an enterprise scale ofcourse. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5467989?tstart=0 Any sort of input gratefully received. Tom

Hi all, I have an external firewire drive set up as an AFP share on a 10.5 Server. All has been well (for 6+ months) until I went to find a file today. Two of my folders/directories have disappeared! I checked the AFP log and it has not logged anything since February 4th. I restarted the AFP service and the logging resumed, but I still can't figure out what happened to my folders. I am the only one with permissions to delete those folders. Any thoughts would be VERY much appreciated. Needless to say, this is worrisome! Thanks!

We have integrated a hundred Macs into our network. When ever a Mac tries to read a directory on a Windows 2003 R2 file share or Windows 2008, it takes an inordinate amount of time. Even listing a simple sub-directory with just 3 1K files in it can take upwards of a minute. Now we installed an afp file share and speed is dramatically faster under exact same testing conditions. But of course we are a Windows and Linux shop running AD. And even if we bought three or four Mac Pros and set up afp file shares, we'd have no way to manage them. This problem of slow smb directory and file listing is driving us crazy. We have tested for months, replaced a core switch, tested and replaced cables, new N AP. All work perfectly with Windows client. No delays etc. Even simultaneously with Macs and Windows laptops, Windows machines are fine. Any suggestions, we are going crazy?

Hi all Just wondering if anyone could help with an ongoing issue that we are scratching our heads over. We are a college using about 270 Apple Mac’s on an Active Directory network with Windows 2016 servers and Adobe products. The issues that we had going from Xyratex servers to Windows Server 2016 is that we had to use Acronis Files Connect for AFP connections. Since we made the move to this we've had our file servers hitting the ceiling with high CPU usage when students in Media are transferring their files over. We've stated that students should not be working on their Adobe CC products in accordance with Adobe's recommendations. So when we have several classes all moving their Premier Pro, Photoshop, etc files over to their scratch the files servers that's when the Acronis Files Connect CPU usage hits the roof. Acronis have identified a 'bug' in their software that causes high CPU usage and have recommended a downgrade. Is any other colleges experiencing similar issues and is there another way of working, i.e. using newest version of SMB ver 3? Hope that makes sense! Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you