Problem with setting up /Network/Library/Fonts/ folder

[Wylertay]

Okay, so I am having problems with setting up a /Network/Library/Fonts/ automount in order to share a master set of fonts among designers. The volume appears to be automounting okay, but it is not recognized in Fontbook.

I created a folder on our XServe RAID volume called “Shared Libraries”. Inside it, I created a folder called “Fonts” and installed some test fonts. So the path is /Shared Libraries/Fonts.

I went to Workgroup Manager, I enabled Sharing for “Shared Libraries”. Privileges for Everyone are set to Read Only. it is set to Share this item Using AFP. Guest access is enabled. I enable Network Mounting of this share point via AFP, and I set it to Use for Shared Library.

So, I restart the client. I login, I go to Network, then Libraries, and my fonts folder shows up. It appears to be auto-mounting okay.

HOWEVER, when I go to FontBook, it shows Network with “OFF” next to it. None of my fonts are displayed. I right click on Network and select Enable Network, and nothing happens. None of my fonts show up.

Any ideas what could be causing this? Am I missing a step or something totally basic?

Thanks! I am totally stumped.

Tyler

[Wylertay]

I didn’t find this earlier, but problem solved! Thanks!

From a previous post:
macshome

Monday, July 03 2006 @ 09:54 am CDT
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IIRC, FontBook requires the network library to be r/w to the clients. Is yours set that way?

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