[Macpartners] Feedback for Apple

[Helen Rose]

On Apr 4, 2007, at 15:51 , Don Montabana wrote:

> All,
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> The request for information below was sent to CSS staff today.  
> After sending it I realized that I wanted a broader view so I’m  
> sending this same request to you. If there are others you belive  
> have input that we should be aware of please let me know and I’ll  
> be happy to include them.
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Here are just some of my issues. I have more and would be happy to  
discuss them.

* Cross-platform authentication on OS X server. Mac clients can log  
in to SMB volumes on my OS X server without a password (Kerberos  
handles that). Windows clients cannot log into the same volume, even  
though they have Kerberos credentials. This worked in Panther (OS X  
10.3) but stopped working in Tiger server.

* Indexing of server volumes. Client machines need to be able to  
Spotlight search volumes on OS X server.

* Encrypted iChat using Jabber, although I understand this must also  
be enabled on MIT Jabber's server. iChat does support encryption for  
people who chat using AIM and have dotMac (.mac) accounts.

* Personal .mac service, so I can offer to my users the ability to  
synchronize their bookmarks and contacts between multiple  
Macintoshes. Currently the only solution for that is to buy them a  
$99/year .mac account.

--Helen