On Mon, 30 May 2005 08:43:40 +0100, Gerard van Schip wrote: >Ok lets spill the guts then, first server then client. > >I upgraded my x-serve with raid from 10.2.8 to 10.4.1 and thus is what I >found. >- admin tools rock! >- acl's are very handy >- dashboard is handy for quick access to some tools >- ldapv3 admin is easier >- a lot more control over users
Sometimes I wish I had more users (i.e., more than one) to justify getting an x-serve :-) >BUT >- file permissions are broken (Apple knows this but has yet to fix it) >- adobe illustrator runs like a dog because of a weird bug and user home >folders on the tiger server >- omnis databases will NOT run properly, i have mine running on an old >iMac now :( Ouch! >- when a user performs a file search on the whole shared volume the >server will lock up Double ouch! After sending my question last night I remembered the Apple discussion boards and took a look. Spotlight seems to be causing a lot of issues, but I didn't see anything as dramatic as that. Of course, only people with issues tend to post, so it's difficult to know how many people are having no problems. I did learn that the old style cmd-F search seems to have gone though :-( So would each client have to Spotlight-index the shared drive(s), or does the index get stored somewhere on the shared volume for any Tiger machine to use? >If you heavily depend on 3rd party software do some google searches for that software and the word tiger. >Trust me on that one! :-) I have such a range of OS versions now that I could probably allocate duties to each machine based on what's been broken following each upgrade. >Now for the good news ;) >Apple has now frozen the innards of osx. This means that even though >things will be added and changed in the future the core toolboxes will >remain static, that means that 3rd party software suddenly not working >will be a thing of the past. In the last few releases Apple has >radically changed USB, networking, sound and the way it handles images. >This should now remain more static and thus cause less disruption when a >new release comes out. That must be the goal of every OS vendor around and good news, not least to developers. I support an old Windows application that right now suffers from some GUI quirks because part of it was built with a 3rd party library that for some reason needed updating when XP came along. The very old code that predated this library works fine because it sticks to some of the earliest programming APIs that Microsoft released. Probably a worse problem with Windows development since there are so many 3rd party development products, but an indication that no matter how hard an OS vendor tries to freeze the innards, there'll always be somebody who breaks the rules and then expects you to pay for the upgrade - if they're still around! There was a report recently (MacFixit I think) about somebody finding a report in one of Apple's OS X log files on their machine indicating that iPhoto 2 might break in a future Tiger upgrade because some of the old API calls would be removed, and using those calls was no longer recommended because it would affect the application's performance and possibly that of the OS. Maybe that's why there have been quite a few reports of 3rd party apps slowing down noticeably since Tiger's release. It does feel like Apple's rushed this one a bit. Thanks for the detailed response - much appreciated. Neil -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
