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zerostar · Feb 11, 2005, 08:14 PM

I have a G4 Running Mac OS X Server 10.3.

I have 5 internal drives, say drives A, B, C, D and E

I have shortcuts to these drives in my dock on all of the workstations, when you mount drive A, the shortcuts show A and you can browse the drive from the dock.

Lately when I mount A, and browse from the dock it shows A and B and C as the same drive.

If I disconnect drive A and mount B it is fine. If I disconnect B and mount C it shows BC and E as the same drive and I can not get to the others.

Anyone know how to fix this, or did I totally confuse everyone

Thanks!

Detrius · Feb 11, 2005, 09:25 PM

Are you creating the dock shortcuts by hand, or are you using workgroup manager to do this? Do you have this network shares set to automount on the machines? You could have them all mount into /Network automatically.

zerostar · Feb 12, 2005, 01:40 PM

Originally posted by Detrius:
Are you creating the dock shortcuts by hand, or are you using workgroup manager to do this? Do you have this network shares set to automount on the machines? You could have them all mount into /Network automatically.

I have set the shortcuts by hand...

Our setup is as follows: 1 G4 acting as the file server, with a RAID with about 1TB of storage split to 5 or 6 partitions. We have retrospect running and backing the files up nightly.

We have 5 workstation G5's that only mount the drives from the server to share files.

All printers are network printers, internet & email is handled by a Firebox/Office 2003 server. Combo in another building.

The only things running on the OS X server are File Sharing and FTP.

We used to rum Appleshare IP back in the OS 9 days, after getting used to 2-3 crashed per day using that, we brought a copy of OS X Server 10.2 (I think it was) and have never had a crash since, never a problem or anything until now.

I know the way we are using it is basically a shared drive setup but I think that is all we need, I an not an admin and do not know much about setting up servers, etc. I read the manuals did some assistants and got it all setup.

I know there is much more power in this beast, but all I really need is sharable centrally located drives on a Stable OS and the fastest IO disk/network speed I can churn out of the server.

Detrius · Feb 12, 2005, 03:13 PM

If you need serious speed, you may want to look into Xsan.

Other than that, though, precisely how are the shortcuts made? Did you just drag the volumes to the Dock? Instead of doing this, make a Servers folder on each client. In this folder, put an alias of each of the volumes your users will need to connect to. Put either the folder or the alias in the dock. Aliases keep track of the server and the share on the server. This should work properly.

zerostar · Feb 12, 2005, 08:18 PM

Originally posted by Detrius:
Instead of doing this, make a Servers folder on each client. In this folder, put an alias of each of the volumes your users will need to connect to. Put either the folder or the alias in the dock.

This is what I have done, they are linking to the wrong drives though, I have trashed & remade aliases.

If you need serious speed, you may want to look into Xsan.

If I had the budget :-)

Detrius · Feb 13, 2005, 06:19 PM

Another idea... all you are running is AFP and FTP, which you don't need OS X Server for... you could try updating it to OS X 10.3 and see if it fixes your problem. You would be killing two birds with one stone here--an OS X reinstall and feature/stability improvements.

I didn't do much with OS X Server 10.2 because it was a freaking pain. I could never get much more to work than OS X Client already did.

zerostar · Feb 14, 2005, 07:56 AM

Originally posted by Detrius:
Another idea... all you are running is AFP and FTP, which you don't need OS X Server for... you could try updating it to OS X 10.3 and see if it fixes your problem.

Try updating to OS X Client? Or OS X Server 10.3?

And actually Rumpus is running the FTP since we had a cheap upgrade for it and was what we were used to.

Detrius · Feb 15, 2005, 08:36 PM

Originally posted by zerostar:
Try updating to OS X Client? Or OS X Server 10.3?

And actually Rumpus is running the FTP since we had a cheap upgrade for it and was what we were used to.

Client. Everything you are doing can be configured with third party utilities in OS X Client.

zerostar · Feb 17, 2005, 02:26 PM

Originally posted by Detrius:
Client. Everything you are doing can be configured with third party utilities in OS X Client.

Well, I kind of fixed the problem.. for a day now back again.

What seemed to help was create a new folder and re-do the drive aliases. This only worked for a few days and now one of the drives is reporting the wrong link again, so I don't know.

So all I need is to turn file sharing on OS X client? as for FTP Rumpus should handle this on client no problem right?

Thanks!

Detrius · Feb 17, 2005, 10:49 PM

Originally posted by zerostar:
...So all I need is to turn file sharing on OS X client? as for FTP Rumpus should handle this on client no problem right?

Thanks!

Yup. There's a program called SharePoints that gives you fine tune control over shares in OS X Client.

I don't have any 10.2.8 machines to verify your issue with, but the few times I use the same thing in 10.3, it works fine.