Gretchen L. Thiele writes:
> The short answer appears to be "not very well".
>
> We've had a myriad of problems with our Mac clients. First
> the scheduler and now the inability to restore folders.
> Granted, we are running ADSM v3.1.2.5x on VM, but support
> assured me that v3.7 and even v4.1 clients would work
> (new features, of course, not available). We're stuck
> with v3.1.0.8 if we wish to backup and restore folders.
> If we went to v3.7.2 and tried to restore folders (files
> seemed to work fine, but try to restore an entire
> Mac by selecting each file individually!), it bombed;
> a new backup with v3.7 and the same thing happened. Likewise
> with v4.1.2. Our Mac community (over 1200 of them) needs
> v4.1 for the scheduler and OS 9.0.4 support.
>
> We *are* going to AIX and v4.1, but the transition doesn't
> happen over night (I have 6,500 accounts left to move
> before March 2002), and Macs are very important to us.
> Testing on AIX with Macintosh clients is going 'ok' so
> far, but I'm not holding my breath...
That surprises me. We *are* at AIX and V4.1 on the server side and
*are* seeing the problems you described above.
Given the fact, that support for ADSM 3.1 ceases soon and that the
combination 3.1 client / 4.1 server is not supported anyway, we are
facing the situation, that a working Mac client does not exist!
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