One of the projects I've had on my burner for some time is to re-jigger our AFP setup on the cluster to reflect the cluster names. Since we haven't touched the default names, volumes present as the default [node-name].[volume-name] rather than [virtual-server-name].[volume-name] I'd like. This has the effect of making AFP mounts not cluster aware, which is bad.
The presented name is changed in the SYS:\ETC\AFPVOL.CFG file, by the way. It is a well documented file.
The problem I'm facing is that we've managed to work around this problem before Novell supplied a way to fix it. And that workaround is what our two mac-labs use. If I change it suddenly, then those mac labs stop working. Therefore, we need to test. I've tried to get this changed pushed through in the past, but I haven't pushed hard enough.
So, I'm going to push. I'm setting a line in the sand, beyond which the current way will no longer work. Such lines in the sand are, of course, mutable, but my hope is that we really won't come up against any real show-stoppers. Heck, this is how it is SUPPOSED to work. I figure the biggest problems will be retraining, rather than technical. We'll see how it goes.
Tags: netware, applemac
The presented name is changed in the SYS:\ETC\AFPVOL.CFG file, by the way. It is a well documented file.
The problem I'm facing is that we've managed to work around this problem before Novell supplied a way to fix it. And that workaround is what our two mac-labs use. If I change it suddenly, then those mac labs stop working. Therefore, we need to test. I've tried to get this changed pushed through in the past, but I haven't pushed hard enough.
So, I'm going to push. I'm setting a line in the sand, beyond which the current way will no longer work. Such lines in the sand are, of course, mutable, but my hope is that we really won't come up against any real show-stoppers. Heck, this is how it is SUPPOSED to work. I figure the biggest problems will be retraining, rather than technical. We'll see how it goes.
Tags: netware, applemac