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Re: Migrating from ASIP 6.3 to Panther

On Jul 8, 2004, at 4:44 PM, Warren Hall wrote:
One more question if I may... given that the plan at the moment is to only need the MM part of things for roughly 6 months, do you think it is an option to set up the xserve to manage workgroups, leave my old asip server managing mm clients and serve the documents from one of those machines so their files are present no matter where they log on from?

I hate to say "no" because there's almost always a hack solution to problems in OS X server, but... no, I don't think you want to do that.

Here's the thing. ASIP and MM use a sharepoint that is owned by one "behind the scenes user," so users don't actually OWN their own home directory folders. That means an OS X client could not access their files with read/write access unless they had read/write access to EVERYONE'S files. That's not good. The other problem is that ASIP bases each user home directory on long names, and OSXS uses short names by default.

In theory, you could take each folder and set the owner to the user, then make a workgroup with the mmuser in it, then make the workgroup have read/write access to every folder, and you might be able to trick MM that way. But in order for OS X users to have their home directories automount, you need a mount record in LDAP for the ASIP server, which you'd have to enter by hand. And you'd need to set every user's home directory path to be based on their LONG name, which is tricky because UNIX hates spaces.

The end result of all of this, IF you could get it working, would be pretty flakey. I don't know how you'd get the home directory info set properly for OS X clients without maybe using the Terminal and the dsimportexport command. It's a lot more work than any sane person would do, just to be able to host docs on ASIP, which is, quite frankly, absolutely terrible at hosting docs to begin with.

There's no fix for the fact that ASIP's MM depends on all users having long named home directories, AND it wants mmuser to own them all. But the MM under OS X Server gets its info from LDAP, so you get way better compatibility.

I don't see any shortcuts...

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Richard MacLemale
Mac Network Admin
http://homepage.mac.com/richardmaclemale
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References: 
 >Migrating from ASIP 6.3 to Panther (From: Warren Hall <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Migrating from ASIP 6.3 to Panther (From: Richard MacLemale <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Migrating from ASIP 6.3 to Panther (From: Warren Hall <email@hidden>)



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