Windows Access Based Enumeration has been around for a little while, but I don’t know a lot of people that know of it or take advantage of it. I’ve seen it used most by people who had been migrating from Novell Netware to MS Windows servers. This gives you the ability to hide all of the directories that a user may not have access to, much like the default in Novell.

Windows Access-Based Enumeration is only supported in Windows 2003 server sp1 and newer

it can be downloaded and installed (without requiring a reboot) from here:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=04A563D9-78D9-4342-A485-B030AC442084&displaylang=en#filelist

In windows 2008 this feature has been built in, and only needs to be enabled, More information is here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961658

I really don’t like working with Mac’s, though the fact that they are based off of unix now does make it easier to work with. A little while back I had to write a script to backup a Mac to a usb drive. I had first looked for some free or low cost software that would backup the Mac and a NAS, but didn’t have a lot of luck. Instead I ended up writing a shell script to do it. It’s a little rough, but works, another note the logging to email isn’t the best, but does work if you enable postfix on the Mac.

here is the script:

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#!/bin/sh
#written by David Hedges

DATE=`date +%Y%m%d` #get the date
DOW=`date +%a` #get day of the week
TIMEDIR=/Volumes/LaCie/time

mkdir /Volumes/scans
mkdir /Volumes/shareddata
mkdir /Volumes/usersdata
mkdir /Volumes/it
mkdir /Volumes/LaCie

mount -t hfs /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/LaCie
mount -t smbfs //administrator:<password>@192.168.42.10/it /Volumes/it
mount -t smbfs //administrator:<password>@192.168.42.10/usersdata /Volumes/usersdata
mount -t smbfs //administrator:<password>@192.168.42.10/shareddata /Volumes/shareddata
mount -t smbfs //administrator:<password>@192.168.42.10/scans /Volumes/scans

rsync -avz /Volumes/it /Volumes/LaCie/current/it >/Volumes/LaCie/logs/$DOW.log
rsync -avz /Volumes/usersdata /Volumes/LaCie/current/usersdata >>/Volumes/LaCie/logs/$DOW.log
rsync -avz /Volumes/shareddata /Volumes/LaCie/current/shareddata >>/Volumes/LaCie/logs/$DOW.log
rsync -avz /Volumes/scans /Volumes/LaCie/current/scans >>/Volumes/LaCie/logs/$DOW.log
rsync -avz –exlcude Volumes / /Volumes/LaCie/current/local >>/Volumes/LaCie/logs/$DOW.log

# Weekly full backup
if [ $DOW = “Fri” ]; then
NEWER=””
NOW=`date +%d-%b`
echo $NOW > $TIMEDIR/full-date
tar $NEWER -zcvf /Volumes/LaCie/$DOW.tgz /Volumes/LaCie/current >>/Volumes/LaCie/logs/$DOW.log
else
NEWER=”–newer `cat $TIMEDIR/full-date`”
tar $NEWER -zcvf /Volumes/LaCie/$DOW.tgz /Volumes/LaCie/current >>/Volumes/LaCie/logs/$DOW.log
fi

grep -i fail /Volumes/LaCie/logs/$DOW.log >/Volumes/LaCie/logs/$DOW.error.log
grep -i error /Volumes/LaCie/logs/$DOW.log >>/Volumes/LaCie/logs/$DOW.error.log
mail -s backup-results <email address> </Volumes/LaCie/logs/$DOW.error.log
mail -s backup-results <email address> </Volumes/LaCie/logs/$DOW.log

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