Accessing files on Iseries AS400

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Accessing files on Iseries AS400

Hey Guys this is a rehash of a similiar post that was archived and not answered. The problem however is the same as this user.,

I am running a Mac Pro (snow leopard 10.6.4) and I am successfully connecting to the ISearies AS400 server (file server) using the “connect to server” option under the Finder > Go. Here is where it gets weird – As I connect to the a particular folder on the server I can only see a portion of the files listed within the folder. On the Mac I see 34 files and on any Windows based computer I can see all the files 140 of them to be exact.

Any information you may have will be greatly appreciated.

IMAC 27", Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Aug 13, 2010 2:14 PM

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Aug 13, 2010 3:03 PM in response to shanepaul

Wow, an AS400?

Are you using the same user account for both the Mac and Windows clients?

Is there a Samaba server running on the AS400, or are you using NFS?

Are you able to view the permissions of all of the files, any differences?

This is a tough one. More information would help greatly.

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Aug 13, 2010 3:25 PM in response to symbology

Yes we are running a Samba Server, We attempted to configure with NFS however we were unable to get the IMAC to connect.

AS400 5.4

Mac and Windows Client username are identical. The MAC is able to authenticate to the AD domain as well and this is only a problem currently with the AS400.

I have tried to find some applciaitons that I can run natively without having to add Parallells to the system (I do not want to run Windows).

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shanepaul Author

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Aug 13, 2010 3:32 PM in response to shanepaul

Additionally I am able to read the Permissions for the folder in question and read the Create, Modified etc dates of the files that are visible.

The weird part is the Finder Window shows 1 of 31 for one of the particular folders however this one has 8,165 items.

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Aug 13, 2010 3:39 PM in response to shanepaul

We have been having a lot of issues with Snow Leopard and CIFS storage systems. Do you have a 10.5 client to try?

We may have to move about 15TB of data to another storage system just because of recent client upgrades to 10.6

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shanepaul Author

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Aug 13, 2010 3:58 PM in response to symbology

Unfortunately my MAC Book is 10.6.4 as well. I will cehck around to see if I can have one of the staff bring their MAC to the office to test on Monday.

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lancetx

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Aug 17, 2010 9:39 AM in response to shanepaul

My company just recently got a bunch of macbook pros in, I've had a mac mini for some time. However, they are noticing the same issue with only a partial list of files showing when our AS400 server is connected. The share works fine on windows machines, but only a very limited set of files show on the apple machines.

Kind of a big issue for us, has there been any progress on this?

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