[Macpartners] Update on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) - some problems found

[Jonathan McIndoe Hunt]

Good afternoon,

In testing Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), we have uncovered a few problems 
that we feel are important enough to share now rather than waiting 
until the end of the evaluation.  Mac OS X 10.4 is a major operating 
system change and problems are to be expected, especially during the 
first few months as vendors scramble to fix issues in their applications.

At this time, we recommend that clients NOT upgrade to Tiger on 
production machines as these problems do not have solutions yet.

The four major problems found so far that effect the MIT environment are:

1. SAPgui version 6.20 rev 8 does not run correctly under 
Tiger.  While the application may launch, underlying functions do not 
work correctly or may crash SAPgui.  SAP and Apple are working to 
address this issue and IS&T is monitoring the situation.

2. MIT's Cisco VPN client conflicts with Tiger.  Cisco and Apple have 
been working on the problem, but were unable to resolve the issue 
prior to Tiger being released.  IS&T will continue to monitor the 
work between the vendors and expects to have something better to 
report by the beginning of June.

3. OpenAFS does not have a version available for Tiger yet.  If you 
use OpenAFS on Mac OS X 10.3 and upgrade to Tiger, it will not work 
in most situations.  A new version of OpenAFS for Tiger is expected 
in the future.   While IS&T support for OpenAFS is focused on the 
Linux platform, we are sharing this information since we know some of 
the Macintosh community also use OpenAFS.

4. Kerberized login window support is broken in Tiger.  Machines 
configured to get Kerberos tickets on login will not allow any login 
to the machine if upgraded to Tiger.  The MIT Kerberos Team and Apple 
are working together to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.

More information on these and other issues can be found in the Mac OS 
X 10.4 (Tiger) Release Notebook at:
http://web.mit.edu/swrt/releases/macosx10.4/

The Mac OS X Release Team continues to test Tiger in the MIT 
environment and will provide a more complete update and 
recommendation by the beginning of June.

Thanks,
Jon

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Jonathan McIndoe Hunt     MIT EECS '97     617.253.0172
Senior Manager Software Services
Client Support Services
Information Services & Technology, MIT
http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/software/

p.s. this message was resent to MacPartners as the original sent 40 
minutes early to itpartners, sw-release-announce, is&t and itag had a 
typo in the To line.  apologies for duplicate messages