Monthly Archives: November 2005
Xsan/FCP presentation slides online
Here you see the presentation Björn Adamski and me held back at the MacEXPO UK in London earlier this year. It’s all about Xsan as the basis for a Final Cut workgroup environment. You’ll need QuickTime 7 to view the slides.
Xsan 1.2 , AFP, and group permissions
Last night I upgraded an Xsan 1.1 broadcast environment to Xsan 1.2. Everything went smoothly, and now the new system offers one great new advantage: If you reshared an Xsan 1.1 volume using AFP, Mac OS X Server and Xsan allowed you to set group permissions for single folders.
If you set read and write permissions for group “A”, users with a primary group “A” were allowed to read and write within this folder. If a user had a primary group “staff” and a secondary group “A” he was not allowed to access this folder, as Xsan/Mac OS X Server just considered the primary group membership.
Xsan 1.2 and Mac OS X Server 10.4.3 consider all your group memberships, which means, that now you can fine-grain your permissions settings like in a pure AFP/POSIX environment. Time to move Xsan into your enterprise environment!
Xsan 1.2 just published
Last night Apple released Xsan 1.2. In addition to fixing some minor problems it also provides us with one great new feature: Xsan 1.2 is now optimized to work with large numbers of small files – a feature that is important to store home directories, mail data, or audio files on the Xsan volume and to reshare them using AFP. Detailed information on the update can be found at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302143.