Network Library works, Font Collections don't

I have a Tiger Server with a Network Library. The server itself contains a bunch of Adobe fonts organized into a couple of collections. I copied the fonts and the collections into the NL's Fonts and FontCollections folders. All the NL's fonts correctly show on the client Macs and appear in client Font Book apps. The NL's collections do appear in the NL as viewed by Finder on client Macs, but do not appear in client Font Book apps. Deleting and re-creating the collections on the server end had no effect. I'm at a loss as to how to get client Font Book apps to recognize the NL's collections.

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If you use Workgroup Manager and your clients are bound to the server via LDAP - try this, it works for us.
On your server, put a folder called "Library" wherever you wish (outside of System and Library for the Server itself and not inside another shared item). Put a folder called "Fonts" in the new "Library" folder
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Go to Sharing
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1. If you have an automounted network Library (/Network/Library), that would be perfect for housing a "starter set" of Font Explorer preferences and your initial, preconfigured database file, in this way.
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1. If no ~/Library/Preferences/com.linotype.FontExplorer.plist file exists, copy it from /Network/Library/FEInitialData.
2. If no ~/FESupport.dmg file exists, copy it from /Network/Library/FEInitialData.
3. Mount the FESupport.dmg file to a local filesystem path, so that its contents appear to reside in a local folder. (For this script, I'll use /tmp.)
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I might have messed up some of the syntax, so consider this a working example. Hope it helps!
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--Gerrit

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