Mac OS X Server |
11:30am Apr 4, 2000 PST (#1 of 10)
OS X is fast, but are you publishing to Windows? We had tried it using samba, but found that we were prone to data corruption, and if a user crashed (or unplugged their box) while running C&P, samba would lock up, then OS X would lock up. Not pretty. Do you have a better solution for sharing OS X volumes to wintel boxes?
Donovan Buck
04:24pm Nov 11, 2001 PST (#2 of 10)
Is there any problem having only the database file reside on a G4 server running OSX? All applications would run on OS9 or OS8 on the clients machines.
Jeff McCulloch
06:49pm Dec 6, 2001 PST (#3 of 10)
We have been running ours on a G4 dual processor under 10.0, 10.1,and now 10.1.1. Much faster than on the ASIP 6.3.
Mark Shipley
07:37am Jun 6, 2002 PST (#4 of 10)
I have my databases residing on a new OSX server, and my clients are running OS9 (Imacs)...and the programs runs wonderfully. No problems and things are much faster!
Kathleen Catanzaro
02:12pm Jun 11, 2002 PST (#5 of 10)
Strange. I had the database residing on a new OSX server and it immediately became corrupted. It was deleting data and adding gibberish. What version of OS9 were your clients running? Have you checked your backup copy of C&P lately?
Maribel Costa
02:15pm Jun 11, 2002 PST (#6 of 10)
Have you been checking your backed up database? Ours was instantly corrupted when it was hosted on our OSX server.
Maribel Costa
04:53pm Jun 5, 2003 PST (#7 of 10)
Our agency is planning on purchasing a Mac OS X Server (G4 Tower, not an Xserve) We will be doing all of our file sharing on a Mac server now that it is based on a rock solid UNIX OS. We want to host the C&P database on it as well. We currently have 2 PC users and 23 Mac users on our system, with the C&P database on a Sun Cobalt server (that we will be selling.) I have heard a few positive & negative things and way too much hype about this idea. Does anyone have experience with Mac OS X 10.2 server? If so, what do you feel is the best course of action? Keeping in mind the we aren't going to let C&P hold us back technologically.
Josh Simmons
12:58am Aug 13, 2003 PST (#8 of 10)
I am hosting a C&P database on Mac OS X Server 10.2.6, running C&P Pro 5.0.2. We have successfully replaced all our Mac OS 9 and Windows clients with OS X 10.2.6. We had a few bugs but we worked them all out. By going all OS X, we have eliminated almost all tech issues we had with OS 9 and Windows, both C&P issues and otherwise. Additionally, with the recent 5.0.2 update, C&P runs much smoother.
No corruption, no weird connection issues, no OS cat fights.
Josh Simmons, IT Coordinator, KPS3 [marketing communications]
02:29pm Jun 30, 2004 PST (#9 of 10)
Environment: Win2K Server, OS 10.3 clients, C&P Pro 5.0.4
After our Win2K server crashed and burned due to unspecified disk corruption, we restored our backup to the rebuilt server and now it returns the following error when signing on:
Error when executing procedure wIntroduceYourself/27 Access to the file is not available
Any ideas what might be causing this? The backup database works fine when accessed locally.
Ken Bergquist
06:17pm Jun 6, 2005 PST (#10 of 10)
Well, we are at it again... It is two years later and we are trying to push C&P "kicking and screeming" as far as it will go. In the last two years, the only things I know to be true, Is that the Mac OS keeps getting better and better - and C&P is ridiculously and painfully slow at becoming up-to-date. Hopefully that has changed with the arrival of C&P X.
We have upgraded to Mac OS 10.4.1. It is the best version of OS X yet. We have just purchased C&P X 10.0.2. (Wow, has it been 3 years since requesting an OS X native version of C&P...) We are doing internal training on C&P X for the next few weeks. We have also purchased Mac OS Server 10.4. As soon as the slow-pokes at C&P resolve the issue with Mac OS Server 10.4 we will be making the switch.
I will post anything significant I encounter as we wave goodbye to C&P 5 running in Classic, our sole remaining Classic app - and say hello to C&P X.
Josh Simmons
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