I just want to share what seems like a bug or some very strange behavior in OSX 10.4 which I think is a mac issue but can seem like a problem with the DNS 323 Network Access feature.
The connect to server feature of OSX 10.4 has a confusing authentication process. This relates to accessing directories on the DNS 323 that you assign read write privileges to a user or group. When trying to connect on 10.4 the popup will give you two choices to connect to the directory: Authenticate and OK - ok represents a guest connection. When I authenticate entering a valid user and password the window returns me to the options of Authenticate and OK. This makes it seem like the authentication has failed, as one would expect if the authentication worked it would mount the drive. What I've experienced however is at this point if you now click OK the ok represents the authenticated connection! The directory mounts, and you can read write files to it!
When i first encountered this I thought not only was the authentication on the user failing, but it was connecting me as guest and giving me access when it shouldn't. But that is not the case. It is working right, just the 10.4 authentication window is buggy/non-intuitive.
This took me 2 days and playing with a second mac on 10.5 to finally realize what was going on. I hope this saves someone else a bunch of time!
key words: smb share directories folders finder mac user password problem bug connect to server
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Topic: Network Access Authentication on OSX 10.4 (Read 2456 times)