decoherence
September 1st, 2009, 10:19 PM
....that can completely infuriate me.
I'm sure it's fine if all you're doing is editing your videos or playing WoW.
But try hooking it up to a 3rd party directory server. Try serving up home directories from a 3rd party AFP server. If you don't get absolutely everything perfect the first time around, god help you. Because the error messages and logging (or lack thereof) sure as hell won't. The need to (sometimes) reboot the OpenDirectory server so it sees changes in LDAP won't help you. That two freshly rebooted clients that behave differently on the same network user account won't help you.
Searching for people having similar problems as you won't help you. The error messages (the ones you DO get, when it doesn't just fail silently) are so generic, 90% of the time whatever you find is describing another problem.
All of the nice things that Apple does to hide the system from you WILL NOT HELP YOU and will make you feel helpless before Apple's amazingly narrow logic about how a system should work.
In summary, it amazes me how extremely bad OS X and OS X Server are when you're trying to use them like "real" computers (as in, hooked up to network services which, 99% of the time, aren't running on Apple.)
OK, rant over.
I'm sure it's fine if all you're doing is editing your videos or playing WoW.
But try hooking it up to a 3rd party directory server. Try serving up home directories from a 3rd party AFP server. If you don't get absolutely everything perfect the first time around, god help you. Because the error messages and logging (or lack thereof) sure as hell won't. The need to (sometimes) reboot the OpenDirectory server so it sees changes in LDAP won't help you. That two freshly rebooted clients that behave differently on the same network user account won't help you.
Searching for people having similar problems as you won't help you. The error messages (the ones you DO get, when it doesn't just fail silently) are so generic, 90% of the time whatever you find is describing another problem.
All of the nice things that Apple does to hide the system from you WILL NOT HELP YOU and will make you feel helpless before Apple's amazingly narrow logic about how a system should work.
In summary, it amazes me how extremely bad OS X and OS X Server are when you're trying to use them like "real" computers (as in, hooked up to network services which, 99% of the time, aren't running on Apple.)
OK, rant over.