DAVE

DAVE delivers commercial grade, two-way Mac file and printer sharing integration and collaboration with Windows Server, NAS, or Smaba network storage infrastructure.

Thursby co-wrote the Mac SMB/CIFS standards with Microsoft in 2002, adding full DFS support the same year. MacWorldreviewed DAVE as a "must have" consumerproduct at the time. Today, DAVE has amainly professional and enterprise user base since simple home and small business use cases are covered by native OS X, requiring no third party software.

Key Features:

Simple: Mac OS X10.10 Yosemite and 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.7 Lion (legacy)

• Easily installed and configured, whether individually or with scaled deployment
  
• Integrated into the OS so that the Mac user can work as they always have
  

Transparent: Client-based solution

• Designed to connect to existing Microsoft network infrastructure
  
• No unnecessary new server or cloud software required
  
• No additional costs for "missing" features
  
• GSA approved, with enterprise phone and email support by Mac/Windows specialists

Complete: Full support for commercial grade Microsoft Windows networking

• Especially designed with networked Apple Final Cut Pro (FCP), Adobe Creative Suite (ACS), Avid and Office for Mac applications in mind
  
• Full support for network shares and network home folders
  
• Full support for Microsoft Windows networking (SMB/CIFS)
  
• Full support for Microsoft DFS

Additional Capabilities:

• Supports all current Windows operating systems and clustering
  
• Network Attached Storage (NAS) support allowing access to industry standard physical, virtualised or cloud storage products from vendors such as EMC, Isilon and NetApp
  
• Compatible with UNIX/Linux platforms running Samba
• Supports Windows ACLs and long file names
  
• Fully supports Apple’s Gatekeeper security technology
  
• Compatible with popular Mac enterprise anti-virus, deployment, encryption, maintenance and virtualisation tools