JDS - Second storage device not addressable via Apache Alias file

[stevewood]

Just a heads up for those planning on running their JDS on Linux. I set up a new Ubuntu 12.0.4 VM in our VMWare environment and added a second hard drive to store the distribution point. The system drive was only 120GB in size, so I created a 1TB drive and mounted it under Linux at /mnt/Casper and added the mount point to the fstab file so that it would mount on startup.

After installing the JDS, I am unable to get the Apache Alias file in /usr/local/jds/conf/ to change the default path for the jamfds binary file. This has been confirmed by JAMF Support.

The only way around this, at this point, is to create a symbolic link in /usr/local/jds/shares that points back to your mount point. I am going to put an FR in to be able to edit the location of your JDS storage.

Once I created the symbolic link, the jamfds binary was able to start synchronizing the distribution point over.

[ammonsc]

I am trying to just setup a symbolic link to the shares folder and leave everything else (10.8 xServe) but I am unable to mount as well. Any ideas?

[stevewood]

So you're trying to point the default JDS share folder to a different spot on the XServe? It should be something like this:

ln -s /<path to new location> /<path to current location>

In my testing on Ubuntu, that's all I had to do. Now, I did that from the shares folder int he JDS install path (/usr/local/jds/shares in Ubuntu). Sorry, I don't know what that path is on OS X.

[bajones]

I can confirm @stevewood's solution works on my 10.8 Xserve with the only modification being the share folder location.

Share location on Mac is /Library/JDS/shares

[ammonsc]

I think I have other issues. My symbolic link seems to work just fine and the folders are set with the correct owner:group and 755 but I still cannot mount them. I have port 80 and 443 open and mapped. Does the user created for the JDS only need JDS permissions?

[bajones]

Are you getting an error message when you attempt to mount?