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  Mac OS X Server On the Right Track June 14, 1999 Apple Filing Services The Apple Filing Protocol is implemented on Mac OS X Server as Apple Filing Services. These are the servers and volumes you see in the chooser. From the user's perspective, there is very little difference between an Apple Filing Services server on Mac OS X Server and an AppleShare IP 6.x server. Both offer network disk access over AppleTalk or IP. However, as mentioned previously, Apple Filing Services lack some of AppleShare IP's security features, such as password aging, password encryption and idle user disconnect. In addition, guest logins operate only over IP. Apple plans to remedy these deficiencies in future releases. Using the Web Administrator (<Mac OS X Server name>:311), we were able to add and manage users of Apple Filing Services. Users we added in this interface were not allowed to log into the server console or Macintosh Manager clients, which provides administrators with a handy way to restrict user access. Once users were created, we were able to log in from a client via the chooser. Browsing and copying files to and from the server was no different than on our AppleShare IP 6.1 server. When mapping out your file system plans for a new Mac OS X Server installation, keep in mind that Apple Filing Services work only on HFS+ (Hierarchical Filing System Plus) volumes, not UFS (Unix Filing System) volumes. So, at the very least, you will need two partitions--UFS for boot and HFS+ for filing services. If you would like to serve your UFS volumes over Apple Filing Services, you will need a third-party package, such as Helios' EtherShare.
Managing the Network of Macs By default, our NetBoot clients were configured to use Macintosh Manager services. We just needed to add user accounts and dole out privileges through the Macintosh Manager utility before logging in on the Macintosh Manager client. We created an account (Kohlhepp) and a workgroup (Editorial). When we added the Kohlhepp account to the Editorial workgroup, it inherited all the workgroup's rights and restrictions. We then had to modify only the rights to the workgroup to update every member. Using the Macintosh Manager application, we restricted users' access to the system and files. For example, we configured locked-down network configurations and disabled access to the control panels, such as "Memory." Make sure only necessary files are preserved between logins--browser cache probably isn't all that important. We spotted this oversight in our Netscape Navigator configuration as our login times quickly grew from 10 seconds to more than a minute. We quickly realized that our Navigator cache (about 7.5 MB and 450 files) was being copied from and to the server every time we logged in and out. We quickly configured Macintosh Manager to discard browser cache files. To speed Web browser performance, you should install a networkwide cache server in this environment.
Web Server/WebObjects Because the bundled Apache Web server offers nothing new from the standard distribution, we spent very little time working with it. Be aware that security under Apache is enforced only on documents that are stored on a UFS volume. This will make it harder for your Macintosh clients to manage your Web site. We updated our site by FTPing files to and from the server. Alternatively, you could install Helios EtherShare (which serves your UFS data via AFP), or use the HFS+ volume (via Apple Filing Services) for staging and have an automated script copy the data to your document directory on UFS. Mac OS X Server, $499, Apple Computer, (800) 538-9696, (408) 996-1010. www.apple.com Send your comments on this article to Robert J. Kohlhepp at rkohlhepp@ nwc.com.
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