[KLUG Members] NFS across platforms...and not!

[Jason Edward Durrett]

>
>> OS-X docs are also confusing to me.  I find searching on BSD sites
>> helps to find the solution.
> Yes, I agree, this has been useful. it is interesting to see that 
> Apple has a
> lot of BSD reference pages on their developer's website now, and that 
> some of
> them do not document the current behavior exhibited by OS-X (or do 
> they??)...
>

Well, I know Apple recently. in the last year or so, hired a big 
freeBSD guy to be VP of something.

>> If anyone is interested, I can host an OS-X weekend at my company. ...
> I would be interested in this.
>

Cool.  Maybe we could focus on specific problems or common difficulties 
and then recreate them and document a solution.
>
> At the same time, I am wondering a good deal about the value 
> proposition
> behind buying OS-X server. Mostly, there doesn't seem to be much; 
> perhaps
> I'm too much of a techie for it to make sense.
>

I do not use OS-X server.  It seems to me though you can get the same 
functionality out of OS-X if you install the software.  Being a Debian 
user in my server closet, Fink works well for me.  Although, I am 
having trouble with it on my ibook with 10.3.2.

>
>
> The Apple documentation is, in general, rather superficial, and way 
> too "gee-
> whiz" for my taste. It is rather hard to dig out some clear answers, 
> and
> few of them have come from Apple (although it is clear that they will 
> be,
> with a liberal application of money to Apple). This mailing list and 
> my own
> experimentation has been as large a factor in learning about the OS-X
> environment has been as significant as all the documentation from 
> Apple.
>
>

I agree.