Francis,
From your response and others to my question about OS X server 10.5,
AFP seems to be the preferred networking protocol over NFS. Yes, in
our case the RAID is connected to a G5 (via firewire 800 - which
provides surprisingly good transfer rates BTW) that is running OS X
server 10.5 . I'll try AFP for the user home directories.
Thanks,
Brian
On 18-Nov-08, at 6:21 PM, Francis E Reyes wrote:
On Nov 18, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Brian Mark wrote:
Hi all,
With all the talk about Mac OS X, I've not heard much mention about
OS X Server and networking Macs together. Is anyone using the 10.5
server and LDAP to centrally house user directories on a RAID
connected to a Mac server for example?
We run 10.5 server with OpenDirectory (LDAP for Apple) over AFP (no
raid) with 10.5 clients.
We had this setup running with 10.4, but we now seem to have issues
getting the server 10.5 to export the RAID to the clients via NFS.
I know NSF is old, but our network is behind a firewall and it has
worked well for us. It seem if you don't set things up the way
Apple recommends (using AFP for example), things can get difficult...
It's quite possible that we are missing something during the setup,
but frankly I'm surprised at how difficult it has been to work with
OS X server.
Is the RAID directly connected to the server? i.e. does OS X server
host the nfs server or is it a unix machine? the requirements for
specifying an nfs home dir are tricky. Check the Admin reference
volume 1 book.
I would be happy to hear about other people's experience with OS X
server 10.5. Perhaps a website describing OS X server for
crystallographic computing/networking would be nice if it doesn't
exist already.
As I said above we have leopard clients bound to an OSX server using
OD and AFP home directories. All the clients are imaged to the same
version of OSX Leopard and crystallography software (managed by
fink mostly). If there's a prudent need for upgrading, I have a
bootable firewire drive that I load onto one of the clients and do
the updating, then image the software to the server and use Netboot/
Netinstall to distribute the image to the clients.
Any more questions let me know
FR
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University of Colorado at Boulder
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