I'm running an OD master and AFP server on the same box and my
experience has been that OD runs fine but AFP doesn't. It requires
restarts every few minutes (as you note below) otherwise client logins
fail with a vague error message - authentication seems to work fine
but it's the AFP mount of home directories that fails. To know the
root cause of the problem I've given up on - error logging is so
useless I wonder why bother spend the cycles to log anything at all.
But, since the 10.5.3 upgrade of MacOS Server and all clients, I so
far haven't needed to restart AFP. But it's too soon to put any
conviction into that statement.
If it's not too late, I would highly discourage running MacOS X server
in a production environment - it is NOT ready for prime time by any
stretch of the imagination. Maybe Apple's paid support is so good
that all these problems are easily overcome for those who have support
contracts but if that were the case, I would expect to see a lot of
that info filtering into the community support venues - something that
I personally don't see happening fast enough for people to address
severe problems in a timely manner.
On Jun 15, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Rick Davis wrote:
I am hearing rumblings (from a local tech coordinator and an apple
discussion group) of Leopard Server not liking a machine to be and
OD Master and AFP sharepoint server. Any truth to this or known
issues? And/or workarounds?
I will be helping a district tech coordinator setup a couple of
Leopard Servers tomorrow and she is reporting problems with a
Leopard server she setup a few months ago. She has a script that
she received from her Apple SE that stops and restarts AFP services
every few minutes. She states that if this script is not run the
directory services crashes and then no new users can connect to AFP
shares until the server is rebooted.
I haven't had a look at the script and hope to avoid this problem by
starting with all fresh installs and import of users. Unless there
is a known bug and this problem will present itself regardless of
what I do.
All feedback appreciated.
Rick Davis
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