Well, I've been tackling this problem for over a month now exhausting all of my usual resources -- people, local experts, manuals, fora (official Apple or not) and I've almost run out of steam. Maybe someone has some suggestions they could give me on more places to look/other people to ask/have had this problem before...
I have the task of setting up five G5 OSX 10.3.9 machines to serve a bunch of users, by setting one of the machines up as an Open Directory (O.D.) Master and the other four machines as replicas of the O.D., with the users' home directories being on a RAID attached to the master. I'm trying to do it all through the Server Admin and Workgroup Manager GUI's, so it's really easy to duplicate once this is someone else's job in the future, and because locations of files that would make this work if edited on a Linux machine are located in strange places on OSX machines.
AFP messes up group/owner permissions which is just...not allowable given the sensitivity of some of the information being shared (apparently it's known to do this?), so the route to tackle network mounting the RAID is NFS to hopefully get the permissions right. This is all specifying "create mount record" to always have the mount up, too. Thing is, NFS doesn't mount everything it's supposed to...instead of all of the content in the user's folder on the RAID, they'll get the one folder "Library" if they even get permission to access their home folder (sometimes only root can do things with/in their folder), on all of the four replicas (NFS mounting does different things on all the replicas for some reason). The master is fine with all permissions/mounts. My problems aren't consistent, so I'm having trouble figuring out what the root of them is to fix it, and everyone else online who has had this problem seems to have hand-fixed some NetInfo stuff which is not the route that I'm supposed to take for this project.
Has anyone here ever encountered funny business with NFS like this (or AFP for that matter)? The only and last suggestion that I have left to try is to create the NFS export on just the master with all the user information etc. just shared with it, log all the users in there to "touch" all the home directories there to create them hoping they'll get the right permissions and content, and then try to export to all five machines (will try this Monday).
I have the task of setting up five G5 OSX 10.3.9 machines to serve a bunch of users, by setting one of the machines up as an Open Directory (O.D.) Master and the other four machines as replicas of the O.D., with the users' home directories being on a RAID attached to the master. I'm trying to do it all through the Server Admin and Workgroup Manager GUI's, so it's really easy to duplicate once this is someone else's job in the future, and because locations of files that would make this work if edited on a Linux machine are located in strange places on OSX machines.
AFP messes up group/owner permissions which is just...not allowable given the sensitivity of some of the information being shared (apparently it's known to do this?), so the route to tackle network mounting the RAID is NFS to hopefully get the permissions right. This is all specifying "create mount record" to always have the mount up, too. Thing is, NFS doesn't mount everything it's supposed to...instead of all of the content in the user's folder on the RAID, they'll get the one folder "Library" if they even get permission to access their home folder (sometimes only root can do things with/in their folder), on all of the four replicas (NFS mounting does different things on all the replicas for some reason). The master is fine with all permissions/mounts. My problems aren't consistent, so I'm having trouble figuring out what the root of them is to fix it, and everyone else online who has had this problem seems to have hand-fixed some NetInfo stuff which is not the route that I'm supposed to take for this project.
Has anyone here ever encountered funny business with NFS like this (or AFP for that matter)? The only and last suggestion that I have left to try is to create the NFS export on just the master with all the user information etc. just shared with it, log all the users in there to "touch" all the home directories there to create them hoping they'll get the right permissions and content, and then try to export to all five machines (will try this Monday).
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