On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Perbix, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you talking about Apple's Package format? If you are then that is a > limitation of the GUI package installer from Apple. You can not run the GUI > installer from ANY network connected share...NIS/AFP or SMB. You can, > however install from command line with no issue... > That is interesting to know. Is there a link to this info? My boss believes that should not happen if the server is a osx box serving afp shares (i.e. all OSX native).
> > sudo installer -package /path/to/package.pkg -target / > > That runs the installer with "admin" rights and uses the booted HD as the > root target for the package. You can drag and drop the package into the > command line while type the command after the "-package " (notice the space > afterwards) and it will autofill in the full path for you. > > -Mike > > > On Mar 1, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > >> Let's say you want to mount network shares to Linux and OSX hosts. >> Which one would be better: NFS, AFP, or SMB? Right now we are using >> NFS but are having the "you can't install from a network share" >> issue. If AFP solves that, I am not against serving share through NFS >> and through AFP; we are talking about user home directories here. >> Someone recommended SMB but AFAIK it is rather slow. >> >> On a related note, does AFP support encrypted payload or some sort? >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-admin mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin > > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
