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  • in reply to: Hide Folders with no access #382499
    cloudmac
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    Hi Ta,

    How many folders are shared to your users?  I’m unsure if this is best for you, but it may be easiest to export folders for each workgroup or project.  In that case, users connect to your server and only see the folders they could access.  They are unable to see any other shared folders.

    We run this in production so project names are not visible to those who should not know about them.

    Hopefully this is helpful.

    in reply to: Fibre channel SAN multipath #382315
    cloudmac
    Participant

    What HBA are you using on the Xserve?

    in reply to: Synchronizing large volume over WAN #382314
    cloudmac
    Participant

    Hello,

    The issue is going to be the latency between the servers.  Rsync will get the job done, but I would suggest running multiple instances at once to get decent bandwidth.

    Also check out Aspera Sync. Aspera works very well over high latency connections and it could be scripted / automated.

    in reply to: Mac Mini Server backup #382313
    cloudmac
    Participant

    Hello, Are you looking for a bootable backup or just a data backup of the clients files?

    cloudmac
    Participant

    Hi Peter,

    Are there any ACL’s on the share?  If you set the ACL’s and POSIX permissions to match the working sharepoints does that work?

    in reply to: Alternative to AFP – Netatalk? #382300
    cloudmac
    Participant

    Hello,

    Does the platform need to be on AFP? It could be easy to use SMB with decent performance from Linux to OS X clients. I’m also seeing good performance over NFS. SMB seems to be the easiest however, since the drive “mounts on the desktop” of the client stations.

    in reply to: VPN #376878
    cloudmac
    Participant

    Here is an Apple KB article:

    “Well known” TCP and UDP Ports used by Apple software products
    [url]http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1629[/url]

    in reply to: volume permission #376876
    cloudmac
    Participant

    Hello,

    The goal is to provide a “SFTP Jail” or “chroot.”

    I believe this article may help you:

    http://www.macresearch.org/restricted-sftp-mac-os-x-leopard

    I suggest testing in a non-production environment before deploying this to your live system. You could also test using OS X Server in VMware. It’s nice to have snapshots so you don’t have to re-install after “breaking” the system. 🙂

    I hope this helps.

    in reply to: Mac & PC Laptop Enterprise Backup System #376875
    cloudmac
    Participant

    Crashplan is a nice solution because it lets you “seed” backups to a local drive, and then move that data to the backup server. This way, the initial backup does not take a long time over the WAN.

    I have also been using Atempo Time Navigator with great success for the past several years. Time Navigator supports Mac, Windows, Linux, etc… It is also nice because it has a Mac native interface. Their “Live Backup” product may be a nice fit for the PC users: http://bit.ly/tTf2n

    “Atempo Live Backup gives end users the ability to recover their own files, while IT administrators can centrally manage all distributed data assets.”

    I personally do not have experience with the Live Backup solution, but our servers have never lost data with Time Navigator. *knock wood* 😉

    in reply to: AFP access log frustration #376872
    cloudmac
    Participant

    Hi Ken,

    I have the same issue with the AFP logs. Ideally, it would be much like apache or vsftpd logs. Here is a snip from the FTP log I’m referring to:
    [code]Sun Aug 16 13:42:28 2009 [pid 4686] [username] OK UPLOAD: Client “4.34.33.24”, “/path/to/file”, 5848 bytes, 24938.59Kbyte/sec
    [/code]
    In my opinion, the system should show the username, IP address and full path to the file. Bandwidth will be nice as well for troubleshooting and statistics.

    I will continue to look for a solution, and if I will post any updates.

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