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So just stop sharing the 3 you don’t want visible.
If you still want those shares available, but not visible, then you can set up ACLs on the sharepoints to prevent users from reading those directories, then they won’t appear in the connect to server dialogue box.

~Ian

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You’re welcome – happy to help.
Good luck.
~Ian

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It really shouldn’t matter as long as the port is free – your clients have to be told about it any which way. However, the default is 8088.
Hope that helps,
~Ian

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Anything in the log files? (system.log for a start)
What does:
sudo serveradmin start swupdate
come back with?

~Ian

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And yes, Classic is dead, no big surprise.

~Ian

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It should connect just fine run on your local machine (Server…View Directories), but what particular features do you need access to, just out of interest?

~Ian

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The current Core Duos in the new machines are 32-bit. Intel’s roadmap for 64-bit chips is currently at something lke 3rd Quarter/September this year. The chip is called the Merom, and it’s looking to come in around the 2.33GHz speed, as part the Napa64 platform. Following that, search around for Santa Rosa, the successor to Napa64.

Also, bear in mind this is all speculation and rumour on unreleased hardware 🙂

~Ian

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But if you don’t want to install Xsan 1.2, you just need to copy the serialnumberd files from a working server.
The files you need are:
/System/Library/StartupItems/SerialNumberSupport
/usr/sbin/serialnumberd

~Ian

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Right now for Netboot you will need 2 images. One for Intel and one for PowerPC. The same will hold true, I guess, for any boot drive.

However, please feel free to test! 10.4.3 has the option of creating a GTP partition scheme – man diskutil and look for GPTFormat. Current Macs can create and mount drives created with a GTP scheme – I’ll test booting when I get chance, but I’m not holding my breath 🙂 Leopard will likely be the first Universal OS

~Ian

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Well, a quick fix is set it in the terminal:

defaults write com.apple.softwareupdate CatalogURL "http://yourservername:8088"

~Ian

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There is (I think) one FW 800 card already from Xterasys, BUT it’s of the /54 variety of ExpressCard, so not compatible with the MacBook Pro’s /34 slot. But at least it gives hope 🙂

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Did you read our AD/OD White paper? It goes through it all in detail.

~Ian

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Well, I really wouldn’t recommend ever using ACL’s on a per-user basis unless it’s absolutely essential – it’s a really BadThing©. It can get messy and complicated in a hurry. Using Groups would probably solve a lot of your problems…having said that;

ls -le

will list the ACLs out, so it should be possible to script something detailing what you need.

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ExpressCard was created by PCMCIA, designed specifically to fix all the limitations of the old PC card technology. The cards come in 2 formats 34 and 54. The vast majority of products should be of the 34 format. The slot is not backwards compatible with old PC cards.

While ExpressCard supports not only USB 2 but PCI Express with theoretical speeds of 2.5Gb/s/direction the closest to fibre channel that I’ve seen so far is a Gigabit Ethernet card.

Here’s some reading for you.

~Ian

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Not trying to be funny, but are you sure the service is still running. I find if I have any kind of outage and it can’t connect to Apple, it stops the service.

Double check the pref got written properly using defaults:

defaults read com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL

Failing that, you can try adding index.sucatalog to the end of your url string – it’s not necessary, but it couldn’t hurt, either.

~Ian

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