LDAP and the 10 user version of OS X Server

[hugohs]

I previously posted some questions regarding setting up, via LDAP, access to the /Network/Library/Fonts folder. I finaly got it working, and it seems to be a great solution to the font management problem we were trying to solve… with one exception.

At this location we are running an older XServe, and we upgraded to Tiger with the 10 user limit. It seems now that when a machine that is being managed via LDAP and logs onto the server, that counts as user #1. If the user on the same machine then logs in via AFP, this counts as user #2.

While upgrading to the unlimited verson of the OS for $500 is certainly cheaper than the nearly $2000 solution offered by Suitcase to our problem, I’d like to know for sure that there is no way around this. Is anyone aware of a different way of setting this up so that this one machine doesn’t get counted multiple times in this setup?

I have to say, I shouldn’t be too surprised by this. One of the things I had to do when setting up the /Network/Library/Fonts folder was to make sure that guest access was turned on – so maybe it just has to be this way.

Thanks for any input…

[hugohs]

Hmm. I wondered about that. And what about the fact that part of what I had to do in order to get this working in the first place was make sure AFP Guest Access was enabled… wouldn’t switching ot NFS break this?

Am I right then in thinking that upgrading ot the unlimited version is the best solution here? Certainly seems the easiest.

Thanks as always,

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