More on Snow Leopard - Redux

Well, I have finally converted all of my Macs. I have one Mac Mini at work as well as my MacPro. At home I have two 2008 iMacs, one for work that is pretty plain and another that is my personal Mac. Every install went pretty well. As I have outlined below, the main thing that I had fail was the password vaulting program that I use. However, today I found something else that doesn't work and I've yet to find a reasonable solution for it. At my office we use Windows server 200 and 2003 as files servers. Mounting SMB shares has always been iffy with Leopard ever since 10.5.5. I was hoping that 10.6 might really address these problems... time will tell on that. However, I do use Office 2008 for the Mac as my document processing. I tried this twice today with different documents and I get the same problem.

I've mounted a Windows server share with SMB. I open an office document on that share and make some changes. When I go to quit and/or save Excel or Word tell me that for a variety of possible reasons it can't save the document. I gave up and finally went to my Fusion Virtual Machine running Windows XP and used Office 2007 to get the job done. I'll be working on getting this fixed as I only go to Windows when I absolutely have to.

The one program that I was a little worried about was VMware Fusion. Officially, Vmware says that the latest shipping version "Experimentally" works under Snow Leopard. Unofficially, it gets a thumbs up. My experience with it is that it's pretty solid.