Mac storage - share & network home folder integration
Are you looking to integrate Macs with your Windows, NAS or Samba-based storage and printing infrastructure? Tired of corruption and issues with native OS X support? Require robust, scalable and enterprise grade Microsoft SMB/CIFS and Microsoft DFS support? To develop media smoothly with networked Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Creative Suite, Avid or Microsoft Office? Replace your end-of-life Apple Xserve server, Xsan, third party AFP shares or OS X Server environments? Simplify cross platform administration work? Standardize shares, network home folders, storage, replication, backup and redundancy with industry standard solutions? Cut back on help desk calls by providing a transparent Mac user experience?
DAVE has been the market-leading software in Mac-Windows file and print integration since 1996, with tens of thousands of satisfied worldwide clients, particularly in the media, entertainment and educational sectors.
Thursby co-wrote the Mac-Windows integration SMB/CIFS standards with Microsoft in 2002, adding DFS support the same year. MacWorld reviewed DAVE as a "must-have" consumer product at the time.
Today, in its ninth generation, DAVE has a professional and enterprise audience since the simple home and small business use cases are covered within the limitations and bugs of the native Mac SMB client.
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"For situations where performance is paramount, DAVE and ADmitMac are the preferred choices."
Geert van Teylingen, NetApp Network Attached Storage -
”DAVE is a flawless program. Once it's installed, it just works and solves problems for us with Final Cut Pro that we had with AFP”
Bob Zelin, President, Rescue 1, Professional television and audio industry solutions -
"DAVE is one of those products that just 'works' - no hype, no fancy marketing, no paid endorsements."
Michael Kulyk, MACSPECTRUM, Apple Certified System Administrator, long-time user and installer
DAVE technology is included in Thursby’s own end-to-end Mac Active Directory Software ADmitMac or ADmitMac PKI, or can fill some of the functionality gaps in native Mac Active Directory handling via OS X Server, or some of the functionality gaps in third party Active Directory offerings oriented towards UNIX/Linux server integration.
Site licenses, volume, educational, research and non-profit discounts are offered.
Thursby has quite simply the longest history, widest user base and best software for enterprise Apple integration in the industry. With over 60,000 Mac-Windows clients, over 10,000 in the last year alone, and over a million software licenses sold, clients come from all seven continents and range from creative artists, studios and publishing, to the government, education and energy, to the Fortune 500 and OEMs.
- Simple - client-based, no lock-in to proprietary Windows server software, no OS X Server and no schema changes for simple deployment and maintenance
- Transparent - leverages standard Windows or Mac tools, infrastructure and processes for reduced costs and complexity
- Complete- everything included end-to-end, no hidden costs for server software, missing features, required 3rd party software, required training or professional services and backed by 100% Mac-Windows engineering and support specialists




