Leopard Announced October 26th

[Gary Adcock]

[David Roth Weiss] ” make sure to clone your system drive first, and set that clone aside just in case Leopard has spots…”

LOL

the first one to look out for is the Keychain.

if you have not correctly named your custom keychains- they do not import- so no passwords get transfered…..

MAKE SURE your keychain is is correctly called either

{the default}
OR
<(yourlogin).keychain>

so that the passwords are correctly passed to the updated system.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Sean Oneil]

Anyone know if they’re including the iSCSI initiator? It can be seen here in an older developer build:

https://thinksecret.com/archives/leopard9a377a/source/25.html

[Arnie Schlissel]

I vaguely seem to remember that it would be included. But I could also be making that up.

Anyway, these guys seem to be giving an initiator away for free. Probably to entice you to buy a drive array from them.

https://www.studionetworksolutions.com/products/product_detail.php?pi=11

Arnie
Now in post: Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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[Sean Oneil]

Thanks, I actually already use the SNS initiator. It’s exceptionally uncompatible with almost everything other than their own hardware.

[David Roth weiss]

I’[gary adcock] “MAKE SURE your keychain is is correctly called either {the default}
OR <(yourlogin).keychain> so that the passwords are correctly passed to the updated system.”

Gary,

This is confusing. I don’t entirely get Keychain thing even after reading the entire help file.

1) How do you export/import if you’re doing a clean install to a fresh hard drive?

2) And, where is it named, as in the example you gave above?

TIA,
David

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[Gary Adcock]

[David Roth Weiss] “This is confusing. I don’t entirely get Keychain thing even after reading the entire help file. “

the Keychain.app keeps all of the passwords/ quickfill/ logins you use on your machine in a usable place.

if you UPGRADE or do an ARCHIVE and INSTALL -your passwords are kept

However if you have created and then named your private keychain something unique, it needs to conform to the naming structure.

DRW– if it is a clean install this is not an issue.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[David Roth weiss]

[gary adcock] “if it is a clean install this is not an issue.”

THNX

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[Arnie Schlissel]

Figures. Probably why they give it away free.

Arnie
Now in post: Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
https://www.arniepix.com/blog

[Sean Oneil]

I don’t think that’s it. Originally it was just bundled with their SanMP software, which was $1000 a seat. Literally a week after the Leopard build 377A screenshots came out showing the Apple initiator, they made the initiator available for free. I think that’s really cool of them. Microsoft gives their initator away for free, and the initiators for Linux and BSD are free. So I don’t think it’s unusual.

ATTO still charges like $500 for their Mac initiator, and I’ve had just as many problems with that one. From what I understand, iSCSI is extremely complicated and there are very loose standards involved. Most target software is designed to work with the Microsoft Initiator, hence why the choices aren’t very good for a Mac.

From what I understand, Openfiler actually does work with the SNS Initiator (Openfiler is a free NAS/iSCSI solution).

Anyway, back to the topic, every single Leopard build since 377A has not had the initiator. So I have a feeling we’re not getting it. Or it may be exclusive to OSX Leopard Server.