Leopard Server ? Ready for prime time ?

[#1]

This is slightly off topic but I'm curious to know if many of you are running Leopard Server in lab environments yet,
and how that is going ? With the release of 10.5.3 I was planning on deploying a few of these these summer, but
I have been reading of some users having some problems. Maybe I need to wait for 10.5.4

An example of some comments : http://www.afp548.com/article.php? story080528204603120#comments

I think some of the negatives are about problems with Active Directory integration, but we are currently not using
Active Directory for our Macs. We are strictly Open Directory at the moment.

Also how about 10.5.x Sever for your Casper Server ? Is this going well ? Much of a bonus over Tiger ?
I'm considering switching that one as well.

Just considering what ways to go with our summer server deployments.

Roger Corbin
Richmond School District #38

[milesleacy]

There was a significant bug in AFP under 10.5.2. That was supposedly fixed in 10.5.3, but I have yet to test it.

[dustydorey]

We have our JSS, Netboot, and packages all hosted on a 10.5.2 server, I
have obviously not yet run the update on it, I did on my test server and
haven't noticed anything but it's really not being used heavily. We have
been having some issues with tomcat and permissions, but I'm working
with Casper support on that now to see what the cause is, I have to wait
for it to act up again here and grab the info. Also we have not set up
link aggregation yet on it, but should be doing that tomorrow. In
short our experience with 10.5 server has not been bad however we never
even had casper on 10.4 since we purchased it right as 10.5 came out and
we kind of just went for it!

Dustin Dorey
Technology Support Cluster Specialist
ISD 196 Apple Valley, Rosemount, Eagan
14445 Diamond Path West
Rosemount, MN 55068
(952) 423-7971
dustin.dorey at district196.org

[milesleacy]

To clarify, the AFP issue in 10.5.2 is a known Mac OS X Server issue and has nothing to do with the JSS.

My JSS is running on 10.5.2, and I have experienced very few issues, and JAMF support was able to work through them in minutes.

On test systems, I have experienced the 10.5.2 AFP issue where the AFP service will "wig out" for lack of a better term, and you need to restart the service before anyone can connect.

[#5]

Our JSS is on 10.5.2 now, and we've been doing fine, except for the Tomcat issues that Dusty refered to. Main CapseShare is on a different server, so there is little afp traffic on this box.
-Nathaniel

[jhalvorson]

Now that we have updated to 10.5.3 server on our Xserve, the JSS that also
hosts our packages has consistent AFP speeds from start to finish. With
10.5.3 on the server, the transfer rate is between 8MB/sec and 12MB/sec with
a client on a 100Mb switch.

Previously with 10.5.2 on the JSS/Package server, if you booted with 10.5.2
on the client, then packages would begin to transfer at normal speeds and at
some point decrease to 100KB/sec. If you booted from 10.4.x on the client,
the transfer speeds were consistent from start to finish. As a temporary
fix, I hosted the packages on a server running 10.4.11.

I just updated the server last night from 10.5.2 to 10.5.3, so I haven't
seen any adverse issues other than the CasperShare sharepoint could not be
mounted. After the update and reboot, when connecting to the server via
AFP, the sharepoint could not be found nor would it appear in the list on
the client. I had to stop and start the AFP service in order for the
CasperShare sharepoint to appear.

Environment: -Xserve with 10.5.3 on Gigabit Ethernet switch hosting JSS and software
packages. -Client used for testing PMG5 on 100 megabit switch.

Jason Halvorson Desktop Analysis and Project Services
Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN 55905