Joining a NetApp Filer to a PDC on OS X 10.5/10.6 – Unsolved
Posted on 8 September 2009 | No responses
NetApp (OnTap 7.3.1.1) is not able to join with authentication on an NT4 Domain or Samba PDC. In order to join the Filer to such a Domain the machine account needs to be created before. That works so far on a normal Samba PDC. But this does not work on a Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 Server.
I tried to add the machine to the OpenDirectory before. The Filer messages shows that the connection gets terminated during the join process.
Accessing CIFS Share on NetApp Filer gives Error -36
Posted on 7 September 2009 | 13 responses
There seem to be an issue with Snow Leopard accessing a CIFS Share on a Filer. Especially copying of Files ends up with the following Error:
The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “<filename>” can’t be read or written.
(Error code -36)
The files on destination do exists afterwards. They also seem to be correct. Just the Error message shows up in general.
I also realized that this happens only on certain users. So I will investigate more about the differences.
Changing the Installer package Checkpoint’s SecureClient R56 to work with Snow Leopard
Posted on 7 September 2009 | 41 responses
As in my previous post I describe a method to have SecureClient R56 running on Snow Leopard. However, if you have a lot of machines to be installed an VPN Client, it might be worth just doing the changes inside the package. So it must be done only once. All you need to later, just running the Package on Snow Leopard without editing anything.
It requires some knowledge using the shell, so a basic understanding of Linux commands would be good.
To get around the Leopard Check
- edit two Files inside the package (Right-Click on the Package / Show Package Contents. This opens finder within the package.
Clean uninstall of Checkpoint SecureClient on Snow Leopard
Posted on 7 September 2009 | 3 responses
Once you want to uninstall SecureClient R56 HFA1 on Snow Leopard, it might leave 2 or 3 files on your receipts folder. This is not a big issue as long you are not reinstalling the SecureClient. But if so, the installer will end with “succeeded”. Unfortunately SecureClient is not in the Application folder nor in /opt. Nothing really is installed.
After you uninstalled SecureClient with Checkpoints uninstaller (Application/Checkpoint/uninstall) you have to remove 2 or 3 files in a receipts folder. Afterwards a new installation of SecureClient should be really succeed in showing up the Application.
A Fix for Checkpoint SecureClient VPN on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Posted on 3 September 2009 | 251 responses
We all remember, once Leopard was out it took Checkpoint quite a long time to update their VPN client. Now Snow Leopard is out and it begins …
After installing Snow Leopard, Checkpoints SecureClient refuses to install and if already installed (through an upgrade) it won’t start at all.
I did some investigation and I finaly made it working since Apple hasn’t changed too much.
1. The Checkpoint installer refuses to install
The installer checks up for the Darwin Kernel version 9. In Snow Leopard we have version 10. So two files need to be edit within the installer package.
