On Mar 1, 2011, at 6:43 PM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > 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).
I am trying to find a link and I know I have read this many times....the only link I am seeing is from '04 and 10.3. I can tell you from experience that it is the case even up through 10.5.x. GUI installers using the Apple installer application will NOT install from a network volume. You have to.... put the installer on a disk image, mount the disk image from the network volume then run the installer Drag the installer down to your local machine, then install. Run the below terminal command Create an applescript droplet that you can drop a package on, and it in turn runs the installer (with administrator privs which applescript can prompt for) from command line for you. There used to be a PLIST file inside the package format you could edit to make it work, but I never had success with that...so I just learned to either copy the package to the local machine, then install....or use the command line which really is not that bad to do....and you can use the -verbose flag to see more of what is happening with the package. The only other solution would be to try the program Pacifist, which allows you to inspect the package, as well as only install parts, or change the location of the install pieces....but it may solve the issue for you as well and keep it an all GUI solution.... But you should embrace you inner Terminal :-) > >> >> 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
