Stopping Xgrid automount from PcP2

[andypullen]

I have a mini server with 10.6.3 on it… working great.

I set up Podcast Producer (which sets up a few other services, including Xgrid) and ended up not wanting to deploy it. However now, the Xgrid folder automounts on every client machine on the network. Everybody uses laptops and takes them home, which means it pops up with a Disconnect Xgrid message. We won’t use Xgrid, and I’ve disabled the service in Server Admin, however it still automounts for each client. I’ve stopped and disabled NFS (which I think is the protocol used to automount the Xgrid folder) and I’ve moved /private/var/xgrid/sfp which is the folder that mounts. That didn’t work, so I moved /private/var/xgrid and that didn’t work either. I’m not sure what else to try. Does anyone know how to stop this folder from automounting? It would be really easy if the sharepoint showed up in Server Admin, but I’m guessing that since it’s in the /private/ folder it won’t.

Thanks for any help or ideas.

[loudestnoise]

Ditto. We are having the same problem. We decided one day to play with Xgrid, quickly found out it wouldn’t do what we wanted it to do and disabled the service in Server Admin. It seems that most client computers are still auto mounting the Xgrid share and when they leave the network get a notice that it has been disconnected. Not really a problem, but an annoyance to the user. Wish I could figure out how to REALLY turn off Xgrid 😉

[andypullen]

Sorry for resurrecting this thread, but this issue is still happening. Anyone have any thoughts or help?

[loudestnoise]

No help here, we ended up re-installing OS X Server on that particular box, which of course stopped the issue. Never could find a way for it to stop. Oh so annoying.

[yschutzer]

This was a minor nuisance for too long, so I tracked it down. Here’s the fix:

-Workgroup Manager > Preferences > check: Show “All Records” tab and inspector” > OK
-Verify you’re Authenticated (to /LDAPv3 directory and not /Local … otherwise click on upper-right lock icon if need be)
-Click the Inspector target button.
-Drop-down menu > Mounts (instead of Users)
-Find the Xgrid sharepoint and click delete from toolbar.

The client machines will no longer automount that that non-existent network path. I’m pretty certain Xgrid will recreate the sharepoint on demand as it did the first time, but I don’t care to go through that little hassle out of the same curiosity as when I enabled Xgrid just to see what it could do.

Hope that helps!

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