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[map85]

what about apple remote desktop?

[griffman]

Yes, that's a good option as well, assuming you're OK with the cost. As noted, I had to pick and choose topics to keep the time somewhat short (even as is, it's longer than the ideal for a video blog).
-rob.

[FatherShawn]

In past versions of OS X (10.1 through 10.4) I was able with SharePoints and NetInfo Manager to set up a thin network so that any of the four of us could log into either of our Macs and have our home folder networked between the two - hosted on one and remote on the other.

NetInfo is dead of course in Leopard and I haven't found any way to mount at startup an AFP volume.

Any ideas how to solve this need in Leopard without OS X Server...?

[deemery]

I gave up and bought a copy of X Server just to set up shared home directories. (The production quality web server is a bonus for the non-profit sites I host, and one of these days I might set up email...)

You can often find a cheapo copy of a 10-license copy of X Server on eBay. I'd suggest Tiger Server (which I suspect you could get cheap) would be fine if you don't try anything fancy.

But if you want to use mobile accounts, then you want Leopard Server -and you have to patch everything to X.5.3.- This fixed a bug between servers and clients so that now my mobile accounts are properly synching. (Of course this patch came a month too late since I lost the hard drive on my laptop, but fortunately I had another backup of that machine.)

A "mobile" account is a networked home directory that is copied onto the client machine, and then periodically (when it works :-) the local and the server home directory files are synchronized.

dave

[deemery]

By the way, I wish Apple would come up with 'SOHO/Home Server' that has substantially simplified setup (setting up X Server is -not easy-), etc. to support networked home directories for multiple-mac households and small offices. This should be easy to do, it's just a simplified version of the current X Server product, and probably worth $200 or so for a 10-user license.

dave

[oneaccord]

Just had a look at Clipboardsharing. The direct link in your article goes to http://www.lagercran...lipboardsharing - the .cz needs to be changed to .cx as in the video.
I've been using teleport for the last two years and couldn't live without it.

[El_Mengi]

sigh
Is it really that #@$% hard to just share files between two Airport Extreme connected Macs that live in the same #$%@ office...? WHY is this not an intuitive, built-in app' for Leopard?
Frustrating.

[griffman]

El_Mengi:
It's not really that hard to share files between two Macs over AirPort. You can do so via the Shared section of the sidebar. The tips in the video just help make that simpler, as well as things like synchronizing the clipboard, which is something you might not think about, but which turns out to be very useful.
-rob.

[jabberwock]

I have been using my idisk. This is the first time I have owned two Macs at once and I didn't know what to do. I am not sure if the idisk can be used this way but it is working for me. Thank you for this topic....it really helped show me some options.

[Retroperra]

Regarding WakeOnLan.
Just makeing shure we speak about the same thing.
Usually WOL means turning on a net of computers from power off in order to do some kind of work like scripted installations or maintenance work at night. To accomplish this with out having power in the computer the network card, built in or not, has either a battery or runs on the same 5V circuit that enables soft-power on. When the magic network packet arrives at the network card it turns the computers PSU on.
What's normally called WakeOnLan Apple calles 'Lights Out Management' or LOM. XServes has normal WOL liek but on non-server Macs WOL can only wake a computer from sleep (meaning it has to waste energy beeing turned on at all times).
Unless someone isn't already some none should make a device with ethernet and USB implementing true WOL that can actually turn any Mac (or PC) on from power off via USB. That would be environmentally A Good Thing + make life easier for all.
Ref:
http://en.wikipedia....iki/Wake-on-LAN

[essorkm]

have 4 Mac's -
a/ google's sync for firefox bookmarks works great! and solves half my problem
b/ i also use a network storage appliance;

but biggest annoyance is trying to figure out how to sync home directories
this is major hole in Apple offerings - simple inexpensive home directory support for multiple Macs for the SOHO user

[deemery]

To synch home directories, you can use Synk (http://www.decimus.net ). This can be configured to run, e.g. every day at 4:00 AM, or even every hour (which is very similar to OS X Server Mobile accounts.)

It's not the same as networked home directories, but it's probably the next best thing.

dave

[theoceanfrog]

does this mean, that if i upgrade from 10.4.11 my share points will no longer work - with no upgrade on the way?

thanks