Axel:
Um... it works fine for us. I just tested it about 10 seconds ago
(names have been changed to protect the guilty):
me@linuxbox> ssh myaccount@macclient
Password:
macclient:~ myaccount$ pwd
/Network/Servers/osxserverbox.some.domain/afp/myaccount
macclient:~ myaccount$ echo $HOME
/Network/Servers/osxserverbox.some.domain/afp/myaccount
This is OS X Server 10.5.5 and a 10.5.5 client, with an extremely vanilla
configuration. After fighting the setup for two days to try to get it
to mount somewhere *other* than /Network/Servers/blahblahblah, I left
it alone and put in the following link on the client (we only have one,
but could have more without any problems, as far as I can tell):
/people -> /Network/Servers/osxserverbox.some.domain/afp
And:
macclient:~ myaccount$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 465Gi 24Gi 441Gi 6% /
devfs 107Ki 107Ki 0Bi 100% /dev
fdesc 1.0Ki 1.0Ki 0Bi 100% /dev
map -hosts 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /net
map auto_home 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /home
map -fstab 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /Network/Servers
trigger 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /Network/Servers/osxserverbox.some.domain/afp
afp_05oXza0007Ge0000oM0000VU-1.2d00003a 298Gi 82Gi 216Gi 28% /Network/Servers/osxserverbox.some.domain/afp
I think this "homedir mounting" feature is a function of using OSX Server,
rather than vanilla OS X, to do the AFP exporting, which is why we are
using Server.
Best,
--
Steve Lane
System, Network and Security Administrator
Doudna Lab
Biomolecular Structure and Mechanism Group
UC Berkeley
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:51:44PM -0800, Axel Brunger wrote:
> Brian,
>
> There is one disadvantage with using AFP rather than wide open
> (potentially
>
> insecure) NFS mounts. Remote login via "ssh" into a client
> computer won't by default mount the
>
> user's AFP home directory. While it is possible to manually
>
> mount the AFP home directory it may preclude other users from using
> the client
>
> computer from the console. This feature of AFP is due to user-specific
>
> mounting of the remote disk on the client computer. I assume the same
>
> feature would apply to Kerberized NFS mounts, but I haven't tried it.
>
> This limitation of AFP requires some thought when using idle client
> computers
>
> as compute servers. We're using the Mac Server Xgrid service, along
>
> with the freely available "GridStuffer.app" application to make
> submission of "batch" jobs
>
> to all our Macs relatively easy.
>
> Axel
>
> On Nov 18, 2008, at 9:10 PM, Brian Mark wrote:
>
> 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
>
> Axel T. Brunger
> Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
> Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
> Stanford University
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