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It’s been so long since I worked on this for them, the best I can say is “I think it’s kerberized”. Would this work at all if it weren’t? I recal “kerberinzing” it when I first setup the Network Library to share fonts. Is it possible for a server to get unkerberized?

Thanks,

Hugo

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My client is still experiencing this occasionally – and I haven’t yet found a solution… I wonder if anyone else has happened to see th is behavior anywhere?

thanks,

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Very true – there are features in SS that you won’t get with the /Network/Library/Fonts solution. But… when you combine the many people who have various ‘issues’ with Suitcase, along with the not inconsiderable cost of SS, it seems to me that many small to mid size agencies might get along just fine with Font Book and Network/Fonts. Fonts can be turned on and off, and grouped in sets (collections) – and in many cases that’s all people need.

Having said that – I’m still trying to work out a few bugs here. Fonts added to the /Network/Libary/Fonts folder by different users don’t show up for some other users until they restart – and that’s a pain.

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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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Wow – got it working at last. Thank you for all who made suggestions. It turned out that the last stumbling block was that I had turned on “disable clear text passwords” and that did not mesh with the settings on the server.

Once working, this seems to be a great solution to managing fonts – so far it seems to work more transparently than the Suitcase Server method and, so long as you have OS X Server in place already, is far cheaper than the nearly $2000 it would take to get Suitcase Server up and running.

There is now another issue we have run into though, which I will post in a separate topic – we’re running the 10 user version of OS X Server, and this LDAP solution seems to use at least 2 users from each machine – one guest login for the LDAP stuff and one named user for the AFP access… in most cases, I’m sure this is not an issue, since Xserves come with the unlimited version of the OS.

Thank you again for everyone’s help. There sure are a lot of details to get just right for this to work.

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I’m still digging away at this one. This may seem naive, but when setting up the /Network/Library/Fonts folder, do you first have to set up a Library folder and define it as the /Network/Library ? I thought this might be the issue, but even if this is the case, there’s still something else I’m missing. I do have r/w permission on all the directories in question here.

We were hoping to get this working and use it instead of Suitcase Server – but we’ve now purchased Suitcase Server. I’d still very much like to figure this out though…

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OK. Someone has suggested to me that the /Network/Library/Fonts folder is only available to users who are using a network based Home directory… is this right? I haven’t seen this in writing myself, and hope it’s not the case.

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OK. This still isn’t working but I’m getting there. Slowly.

I’ve tried now to set this up at a second site at well, partially because it seems it would be useful to have the /Network/Library/Fonts available to assure consistancy, but also to help trouble shoot the site I mentioned earlier. No surprise, I’m getting the same results. (Isn’t that one of the signs of madness – keep on doing the same thing, getting the same results, repeat?). Anway, I wonder if this section from the quickstart_tigerserver.pdf might be the issue:

Reboot your client computer. At the login screen, you will either be looking at name/password fields or a user list that now has “Other…” at the bottom. Login with a network account and that account should be properly mapped to a network-based home directory.

My question now is – what does it mean to “Login with a network account”? In my ignorance, I tried user@server.xyz.org as a username – didn’t work.

Hopefully I’m right and I’m just missing one step here.. any suggestions welcome. I am surprised that more people don’t set this up – in a design studio environment I would have thought people would find the /Network/Library/Fonts mechanism useful.

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