Frequently, I've had issues with Windows machines accessing OS X Servers just set up with SMB sharing. It seems that the Windows client needs to allow a certain type of authentication to allow the machine to log into the OS X Server, and that setting isn't correct by default. The problem also happens for Linux servers as well, not just Mac OS X Server.

Note that by making these changes, you're making things that much less secure on the Windows side of things by allowing an older, less secure encryption method for authentication. While most of you won't care (because you're just looking for a solution for an in-house server), if you're working with a server which is publicly available (for some crazy reason), then get to know the facts before making these changes.

Here's directions on how to make that change in many of the various flavors of Windows:

OK, well... here is a Photographer's little slice of hell.

I'll cut right to it. Canon Camera Control software and PhaseOne C1Pro, two of, by far, the most popular chunks of Professional Photography, are not supported in Leopard yet for all Canon cameras, notably the 5D.

Great.

Font handling in OS X 10.5 is supposed to be better overall. So far, I've noticed Apple has moved the per user and system font caches to /tmp, which is probably a good move. 10.4.x didn't automatically purge font caches, which caused problems for folks who happened to activate and deactivate tons of fonts on a regular basis.

As Leopard reaches it's second month in the wild, we've seen a few other incompatibilities crop up, particularly as we've been testing Leopard Server - the new server OS that brings group calendaring and a host of improvements to the Mac OS Server platform.

This week, I haven't discovered much new in the way of problems or incompatibilties with Leopard, but there is some new info regarding compatibility and testing with various applications.

Adobe Application Compatibility with OS X Leopard

Adobe has recently released their official notice about Leopard and Adobe compatibility.

There's been a lot of coverage this week of the possibility of losing your data on your Mac, and if there's anything that should make you backup your data, this post should put the fear of [pick your diety] in you.

Possible Bad Series of Drives in MacBooks?

Well, I've been running Leopard for two weeks now and I'm starting to see productivity benefits from it, which is about what I'd expect from such a major operating system upgrade.

At TSP, we've been through all of the system upgrades and have seen good ones and bad ones. Leopard is "on par" for Apple's generally good record of software upgrades.