Shared fonts on XSAN

Hi,
I work for a mid sized Media company. We have around 12 editors working simultaneously off different machines, in different offices using the one xsan.
The most common problem we encounter is different fonts installed on different machines. One editor will have a custom range of fonts on his machine while another does not, this causes problems when different editors open projects on different machines. Fonts go offline too often.
My question is, is there a way of having a "stock" of installed fonts on the xsan, and an application installed on each machine that automatically watches this folder and syncs any changes to the local machine?
Or, is there a better way of going about this font-syncing issue?
Thank you for your help,
-Alex

OS X supports the use of /Network/Library as a valid reference path for common Library items like fonts. This is generally not a SAN deployment solution, but an Open Directory/File Services implementation. It requires an OD Master (which you probably have because you are running XSan) and the acceptance of using guest access on the AFP service. Thus, a share point is defined as an auto-mount and all bound systems will have access to it. This allows all fonts to exist on a central location (the server) and be managed by IT.
Generally fonts on Xsan I would discourage. While everything usually works, Xsan filesystem will split the resource and data forks. With traditional Mac postscript fonts this could lead to problems. Create the share on the boot volume of the file server. That will ensure that the fonts are on an HFS volume and resource/data fork will be handled natively.
Also, you can look into the font server products from Extensis. I've never been a big fan of these, but your needs may be different.
Hope this helps.

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