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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> Francis Reyes M.Sc.
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> University of Colorado at Boulder
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