Re: Network (Portable) Home Directories and Eclipse not working nice?

From: Johan Henselmans (joha..etsense.nl)
Date: Mon Mar 16 2009 - 17:55:34 EDT

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    On 13 mrt 2009, at 23:17, Jeremy Matthews wrote:

    > As a sysadmin and the guy who creates/tests the WOLips Turnkey Mac
    > Installer...I have no issue...working with PHD's, NHD's, and local
    > HD's using Eclipse...or at least, launching it and creating a few
    > projects.
    >
    > From an admins' point of view, there can be a ton of benefits for
    > users (for PHD's)...and most of the bugs are worked out pretty
    > quickly.
    >
    > Of course, if you run 10.5, you could always consider an external
    > home directory...those seem real popular in some circles...but the
    > focus there is limited and your I/O would be up for consideration.
    >
    > -j
    >

    OK, I have done some testing: Mike was right about the property that
    have to be set, when running of an AFP volume:

    http://www.mhworth.com/pub/blogs/matt/?p=11

    =============
    Thanks for the tip! I was having this problem when trying to open a
    workspace under OS X on a disk that is shared via AFP (rather than
    NFS). The locking daemon (#3 above) wasn’t working. So here’s my tip
    for you: if you want to open a shared Eclipse workspace under OS X, go
    to the Eclipse application, right-click and select Show Package
    Contents. From there, open Contents > MacOS, then add -
    Dosgi.locking=none to the file eclipse.ini. Voila, now you can open an
    Eclipse project across the network.
    =============

    If you are running of an NFS volume, there is no such problem. Nor
    with a Portable Home Directory in local mode (with PHD you can decide
    whether to copy the whole shebang to a local internal/external disk,
    or just leave the home folder on the server).

    This is the situation as it stands in 10.5.6. We'll see how that
    progresses in Snow Leopard.

    > On Mar 13, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Johan Henselmans wrote:
    >
    >> I know, I should not have done it. But I did. I have finally
    >> succumbed to a (network) portable home directory, so I could work
    >> on my laptop and my desktop machine with the same settings. The
    >> trick is that the laptop has the home folder on the machine to work
    >> offline, while the desktop is using a network home folder
    >> (Something along the lines of afp://server.domain.name/Users/johan).
    >>
    >> So working on my desktop my eclipse workspace would be something like
    >>
    >> /Network/Servers/server.domain.name/Volumes/BigHardDisk/Users/johan/
    >> projects/eclipseworkspace.
    >>
    >> Unfortunately, eclipse comes back with a warning that it can not
    >> open nor create a workspace over there:
    >>
    >> <pastedGraphic.png>
    >>
    >>
    >> Does anybody work with a networked home folder and succeed in
    >> creating or opening a workspace over there?
    >>
    >>
    >> Regards,
    >>
    >> Johan Henselmans
    >> http://www.netsense.nl
    >> Tel: +31-20-6267538
    >> Fax: +31-20-6279159
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >

    Regards,

    Johan Henselmans
    http://www.netsense.nl
    Tel: +31-20-6267538
    Fax: +31-20-6279159



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