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 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.
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.
Cheers,
Brian
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Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology
Room 418, Buller Building
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
CANADA R3T 2N2
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On 18-Nov-08, at 9:42 AM, Anastassis Perrakis wrote:
On Nov 18, 2008, at 16:26, William G. Scott wrote:
On Nov 18, 2008, at 7:01 AM, Mischa Machius wrote:
For linux, I would recommend a commercial solution,
For linux, I actually ditched the commercial solution for Ubuntu,
because it was vastly easier as a non-expert to maintain.
Having said that, like you, I have found running Mac OS X to be the
most cost-effective in terms of time and utility.
Same here. Lets also say that I have seen many people in the lab
switch from Linux and Windows to OSX, but nobody from OSX back to
Windows or Linux. That must be saying something.
We still use btw Linux workstations for stereo and I am happy with
them as well.
As Harry says, choose what you are most comfortable with(*).
A.
(*) If thats Windows Vista though, take a break and meditate, think
of the bigger picture of life,
donate to the Bill Gates foundation which is what Bill Gates should
be remembered for,
and find the nearest MacStore. ;-)
Bill