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Posted by jthomasz4 on July 17, 2005, 1:11 pm
Please log in for more thread options Roger & Joe,
Actually, there is a third party product that does this called Cloak by
www.scriptlogic.com and it sells for under $200 per server.
I'm not trying to beat up on the company. They produce quality
software and I would recommend their Desktop Authority product to
anyone. But I experienced very slow file copies after Scriptlogic
Cloak was installed. I called their tech support about this and they
told me the development team has looked into this and determined that
it is not a Cloak problem. I told them that the problem disappears
when I remove Cloak. The reply was, "Yes, but the dev team
determined that it is some other CPU intensive programs that are
interfering with Cloak." Last time I looked at the Scriptlogic forum
postings other customers were having the same problem and their reply
was the same. It is obviously a Cloak bug and the development teams
"pass the buck" response made it my problem. Cloak also caused a
horrible display refresh problem on cloaked folders. The product should
not be interfering with the video driver like this so I question the
design of the program. The program has undergone about 5 post release
revisions and still has some severe bugs. (I guess that's why it
sells for under $200 per server ?). Between this, the development
teams' misdiagnosis of the problem, the occasional crashing of the
server service I think it's clear that the development team lacks
expertise in this type of programming. Enough said. I should have
tested it for the full evaluation period before purchasing.
I was hoping that someone could recommend a similar product from
another vendor?
Roger Abell wrote:
> > > (tongue in cheek) Novell NetWare ?
> >
> > LOL!
> >
> > I actually had to clean coke off my keyboard for that one Roger. :)
> >
> > I haven't seen any third party tools to do this. It would require at least
> one
> > device driver level piece of code, it would be non-trivial and probably
> more
> > expensive than buying Windows Server 2003.
>
> or buying N...l
> :) sorry about that Joe
> --
> ra
>
> >
> > --
> > Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
> > www.joeware.net
> >
> >
> > Roger Abell wrote:
> > > (tongue in cheek) Novell NetWare ?
> > >
> > > I have not seen, but it may be there, something that ties into
> > > Windows to do this.
> > >
> > > If your folder structure is fairly simple, in terms on little
> > > nesting of areas that are distinctly permissioned and of
> > > being fairly static relative to changes in permissioning,
> > > then I could envison making a fairly simple authenticated
> > > web app that would do the filtering based on groups of
> > > the browsing account and present pages with UNC links.
> > >
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