For some time, Mac OS X server has been sold in two versions - 10 client ($500) or unlimited client ($1,000). Seems simple enough. The software is the same, but the licence code tells the server software how many clients are allowed.
Now my experience is with 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 server. Panther and Tiger may be different. And I probably shouldn't tell you this.
But AFAICT, the client restriction ONLY applies to AppleShare. Not to any other services (mail, web , print, ftp, samba, nfs, ldap, whatever). After all, it would be very difficult to impose such a universal restriction on all these open-source packages, however crafty your management software was.
That has always been the case. The 10-user license has always only applied to AppleShare connections.
It is also widely known, I believe there are KB articles stating such on Apple's support site, and its not uncommon to find it noted on the OS X Server discussion boards at Apple. I'm even pretty sure its included information in the documentation that ships with OS X Server.
There isn't any secret.
Now of course for organisations with many classic Mac clients (OS 9 or earlier) that's an important restriction. But for organisations without classic Mac clients, who cares? Other clients (UNIX, OS X, Windoze, Linux) don't need AppleShare and at least from Jag Server onwards (the earlier versions were - frankly - a bit flaky) all services are available via samba or an open protocol. Why buy the unlimited client version when the ten-Appleshare-client version does it all for half the price? Apple may not have intended it this way, but this seems to be the way it is.
rgds
Gerald WW
AppleShare VERY, VERY, VERY much applies to Mac OS X environments. AppleShare is not AppleTalk, AppleShare is very different and very much the core of how Mac OS X computers do file sharing. In a Mac OS X Server environment where you are providing Open Directory Services AppleShare is a must.
Also note - the 10-user restriction is not so much "10-users" as "10 simultaneous connections." If I have an Open Directory Master that provides file service over AFP and I am automounting two sharepoints to six clients then only five clients will mount the shares as only the first ten connections are accepted and each mounted share counts as one connection/user.
You could attempt to get around this by sharing over NFS instead of AFP but NFS shares have to be existing AFP shares that are "exported" to NFS, so your mileage may vary in trying to execute a workaround successfully.
David
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