This problem only affects clients running Mac OS version 10.5.6, and with any AFP server that does not support Network Spotlight searches: Acronis Files Connect, Mac OS X Server versions 10.4.x and Mac OS X Server versions 10.5.x where Spotlight support has been disabled. Search failures from 10.5.6 clients - Clients issuing search requests against the root of an AFP volume will fail to find any search results.Permissions cannot be changed - A Leopard client cannot change permissions on a file that is on an AFP volume using the Get Info window.
Apple resolved this problem in Mac OS X 10.5.7, released May 12, 2009. After this process crashes no more broadcast messages are displayed on the client. This corresponds with the crash of Leopard's check_afp process.
Cleartext password support can be re-enabled if someone absolutely has to have it but it is strongly discouraged. Permitting cleartext passwords allows anyone to post a bogus AFP server that only supports cleartext UAM to harvest passwords. This was done deliberately in Leopard because cleartext is insecure and is a huge security hole.
Cleartext passwords - Cleartext passwords are no longer enabled by default.Description:īelow is the list of the known issues with the Leopard AFP client. Details about the specific issues we discovered can be found below. The remaining Mac OS X client issues have been filed as bugs with Apple. All Acronis Files Connect specific issues are resolved in the latest versions of Acronis Files Connect. These client side issues were generally resolved by Apple in later versions of Mac OS X. Unfortunately the majority of the issues are bugs in the Leopard client that affect connections to all AFP servers including Mac OS X servers and Acronis Files Connect (formerly ExtremeZ-IP).
A number of issues have been found with the Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 AFP client.