[K12OSN] Connecting to OSX Tiger Volumes

Brad Johnson bjohnson at independence.k12.ia.us
Fri Feb 24 03:11:50 UTC 2006


On Jan 27, 2006, at 12:11 PM, Selzler, Bruce wrote:

>
>
> Hello Team,
>
> I have some LTSP servers and workstations set up around our  
> campus.  One
> major shortcoming of the LTSP setups here at our school is that the
> students cannot use LTSP workstations to access their folders on our
> OSX.4 server.
>
> The server is setup as a stand alone server and serves volumes to
> windows clients as well as Macs, and I also use NFS shares on these
> servers to install LTSP on other systems.  However I can't seem to see
> or mount any volumes on the OSX servers from an LTSP workstation.
>
> What I would really like to do is have OSX server LDAP and have the  
> LTSP
> workstations use that information to log each student on so they can
> mount their OSX folders and work on the files they have stored  
> there on
> their own desktop.  But I've had zero luck with that as well.
>
> At this point I'd be happy if the students could log on to a generic
> account on LTSP and open up their folders from the desktop like  
> they do
> with Windoze and Macs.  But I can't seem to figure out how to make  
> this
> happen.
>
> I've read the HowTo's and I've played with this stuff until I'm  
> blue in
> the face but no luck so far.  I have the sense that I'm missing
> something really basic that should be obvious, but I can't see it.
>
> Is there anyone out there doing what I would like to do here that  
> could
> explain the process to me like I'm an eight year old?  I'd really
> appreciate it.  Thanks.
>
> - Sez
>
>
>
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Bruce,

Have you had any further luck with this?  Feel free to email me off  
list if you want, and I'll give you my phone number to talk you  
through this.

Brad




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