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Wednesday, December 31 2008 @ 12:17 am CST
Contributed by: MacTroll
Views: 526
 A while back I wrote a teaser about having set up a process to auto-enroll your Mac with an AD-based certificate authority. This is commonly used on the PCs to set up certificate-based 802.1X setups and whatnot. While I got the script mostly working, I've not had enough time to really finish it off. So, since I'm tired of the e-mails asking when I'm done... I'll walk through the process here and see what anyone else can add. Read on for enough info to be dangerous...
Saturday, December 27 2008 @ 12:29 pm CST
Contributed by: Emmanuel Lauhon
Views: 144
 NausicaMedia, the french ACSA company, has translated the latest "Tips and Tricks for Macintosh Management for Leopard" in french. For all the french speaking sysadmins around the world, you will be able to read the John de Troye's guide for managing your users accounts in your own language. "Trucs et astuces pour la Gestion du Macintosh pour Leopard" is available at NausicaMedia's website.
Tuesday, December 16 2008 @ 03:08 pm CST
Contributed by: MacTroll
Views: 885
 Not sure how long this has been up, but may be of interest: Web Help Desk which is generally well regarded as a help desk package has a free version, meaning free to use with no ads or time limits. Get it here.
Tuesday, December 09 2008 @ 09:54 pm CST
Contributed by: MacTroll
Views: 616
 Continuing on the iSCSI theme... a collision of worlds that will probably become more common in the future. One part ZFS, one part iSCSI, one part TimeMachine... pour over ice and garnish with a galactic background. http://opensolaris.org/os/project/qosug/how-tos/zfs_iscsi_integration/
Tuesday, December 09 2008 @ 04:59 pm CST
Contributed by: federoffm
Views: 887
 I've been doing some pretty intensive research down here with iSCSI setups of various kinds. This market segment was a little rough a year ago...but it's much better now. Though there are still no "official" OS X Server setups that support it....certainly not Xsan (too bad!) read on for a few more iSCSI notes...
Tuesday, December 09 2008 @ 09:01 am CST
Contributed by: smflood
Views: 468
 Since we haven't seen much about this elsewhere... Novell have now released Open Enterprise Server 2 SP1 which includes new Novell-engineered protocol support for Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) on the Linux platform. See http://www.novell.com/products/openenterpriseserver/ for more information.
Thursday, November 20 2008 @ 08:06 am CST
Contributed by: MacTroll
Views: 1,360
 Boy howdy can 802.1X be a pain in the behind... To help with this Jeff Dyck has created an application to help. We've had it up in the downloads section for a little while now, but it hasn't gotten the love it needs. So, if you're in an 802.1X environment it would probably be useful to take a look at this. First read the docs. Then download the app. From Jeff: I've just put up a SVN site for this on the Google Code site - I have it working and doing the essentials in my environment, but there's lots of room for improvement and to make it more flexible. Would love to see other people contribute to it as well.
The Google code site is: http://code.google.com/p/leopard-8021xconfig/
As far as not modifying com.apple.airport.preferences.plist and adding to the keychain, that's very very very strange as it's working here... Maybe make sure you have the newest version from the SVN as I did modify it to deal with the newer GUID based ByHost Preferences. I also pulled some proprietary code we have that pulls user info from a database to make it easier to setup - I may have unintentionally removed something else, although I did test this version...
Wednesday, November 19 2008 @ 10:00 am CST
Contributed by: MacTroll
Views: 967
 The Enterprise Desktop Alliance is doing a Mac/Windows integration survey. Maybe do it for the $50 gift certifiate. Or better yet, do it because they say they'll release the results and we're all curious.
Monday, November 17 2008 @ 10:09 pm CST
Contributed by: craigatdpc
Views: 1,387
 After 6 years of development, Mike Bombich is retiring NetRestore, one of the most used and useful tools for OS X mass deployment. Mike cites an aging code base and other tools in the market as reasons for his descision. Read all the details here
Friday, November 14 2008 @ 08:27 am CST
Contributed by: jcip02
Views: 1,373
 I have to set up the IT infrastructure for a company that has 4 different offices. Two of the sites have Apple based clients and the other two have windows based clients. All of the servers are Xserves. I hope to set up a single Open Directory structure that can handle Mail, a Corporate Intranet Site, a Corporate Website, Home Folders (for both the OSX and Windows laptops/desktops), Job Folders, and Backup for all of these. There will be roughly 75 users at the HQ, and less than 20 users at each of the 3 satellite offices. Our current equipment includes 2 or more Xserves at every location
(plus Xserve RAIDs at the main office), 55 iMacs / Mac Pros, 13 MacBook
Pros / Airs, 30 Windows Desktops, and 7 Windows Laptops. Our network
infrastructure is gigabit at all of the locations. Currently
each office has it’s own Open Directory master and separate fileservers
for Job Folders and Home Folders. The Corporate office hosts the mail,
websites, and backup for all offices. Any help or advice for creating this infrastructure in a secure and reliable way would be greatly appreciated!
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Create Computer Groups in ADCreate Computer Groups in AD Started by: Wolfraider, Tuesday, December 02 2008 @ 12:49 pm CST Views:165, Replies:3 Last reply by: Macleod
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Monday, January 05 2009 @ 07:05 pm CSTI actually just got there. After pouring
through the schema changes, and looking
at the mappings in the AD plist,
computergroup does not exist.
There was
a few minutes of incredulity, followed
by the realization that this really is
the case.
Any idea how
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| Active Directory |
10.5.4: AD administer group us...10.5.4: AD administer group us... Started by: erd, Saturday, August 09 2008 @ 05:56 pm CDT Views:390, Replies:2 Last reply by: Macleod
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Monday, January 05 2009 @ 05:58 pm CSTStrangely enough, 10.5 caches group
information for users in their user
account, but does not cache groups at
all.
This means that locally cached
user accounts will show which groups
they are a member of, as well as all the
other members in that group.
t
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| Active Directory |
Augmented Records & Home Sync ...Augmented Records & Home Sync ... Started by: Tom H, Friday, December 05 2008 @ 05:12 am CST Views:238, Replies:3 Last reply by: Tom H
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Monday, January 05 2009 @ 04:16 pm CSTI have augmented the home folder record,
and unchecked 'Use UNC path from Active
Directory to derive network home
location' to prevent the home folder
native attribute in active directory
being converted into a standard
attribute.
I have augmented the s
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| Questions and Answers |
"Empty" Share Visible. Safe to..."Empty" Share Visible. Safe to... Started by: jbennett, Monday, January 05 2009 @ 01:58 pm CST Views:20, Replies:0
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Monday, January 05 2009 @ 01:58 pm CSTSo I've setup OS 10.5 Server on a dual
2.66 Ghz Mac Pro. I followed the
"simple" route as this seemed the
fastest way to get file sharing services
up. I've created 3 or 4 users. Whenever
one of those accounts mounts a volume a
volume labeled "empty" is vis
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| File Serving |
Office 2008 with 10.5 - Can't ...Office 2008 with 10.5 - Can't ... Started by: inspirednetworks, Monday, January 05 2009 @ 12:18 pm CST Views:16, Replies:0
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Monday, January 05 2009 @ 12:18 pm CSTI know this is an ongoing problem, but
I'm having some really strange
problems...
My users are able to save
a document, but after making further
changes, they can't resave. I've found
lots of documentation on this issue for
10.4 (http://word.mvps.org/Ma
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| Open Directory |
Using Directory.app with Tiger...Using Directory.app with Tiger... Started by: tking13, Sunday, January 04 2009 @ 10:35 pm CST Views:22, Replies:1 Last reply by: MacTroll
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Monday, January 05 2009 @ 10:23 am CSTAn interesting question...
There's 3
moving parts here you'd need to look
into.
1. The schema in OD. 10.5
introduced a number of new attributes
that Directory uses. I don't know if
10.4.11 has all of those or not...
2.
A specific config file. I wo
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| Active Directory |
Mac OS 10.5.6 mobile profile o...Mac OS 10.5.6 mobile profile o... Started by: mhtech, Monday, January 05 2009 @ 10:19 am CST Views:15, Replies:0
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Monday, January 05 2009 @ 10:19 am CSTI am quite new to the Mac environment
but have sufficient experience with
Windows. What we want is to have mobile
profiles so users can log onto either
laptops or desktops and have their
settings and documents regardless of
where they are (we have success
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| Web |
Is there a web-based server mo...Is there a web-based server mo... Started by: dave@mmu, Wednesday, December 03 2008 @ 10:03 am CST Views:212, Replies:2 Last reply by: dave@mmu
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Monday, January 05 2009 @ 04:34 am CSTcheers i'll check them
out!
Thanks!
Dave
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| Questions and Answers |
Cloning Leopard Server with Ne...Cloning Leopard Server with Ne... Started by: carlocarlo, Wednesday, December 24 2008 @ 05:31 pm CST Views:160, Replies:2 Last reply by: carlocarlo
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Sunday, January 04 2009 @ 05:40 pm CSTHi macinandy and thanks for you kind
reply.
I will surely remember of your
hint for future servers... ...I had to
finish installing that second server
before the holidays end, so I went
ahead.
I was not quite sure - and you
confirmed my doubts - but the
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| Open Directory |
Open Directory - Migrating fro...Open Directory - Migrating fro... Started by: inspirednetworks, Friday, January 02 2009 @ 09:28 pm CST Views:60, Replies:2 Last reply by: inspirednetworks
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Sunday, January 04 2009 @ 12:18 pm CSTThanks for the input, I did try
restoring the same archive back to 10.4
and it worked just fine...
I've since
(in the essence of time) done an
export/import through workgroup manager
and just forgotten about the password
issues.
I do have one other iss
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| Open Mike |
How loud is the XServe really?How loud is the XServe really? Started by: jerkyjerk, Tuesday, April 03 2007 @ 01:38 pm CDT Views:1152, Replies:5 Last reply by: jerkyjerk
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Saturday, January 03 2009 @ 02:19 pm CSTI'm sure the XServe G5 is not too bad.
I eventually sold my original XServe
and side-graded to a 2nd gen XServe Dual
1.33GHz (which I'm still using). There
was a night and day difference between
the two. The main difference was the 2nd
gen machine had
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| Questions and Answers |
Roaming Profiles and 10.5.5Roaming Profiles and 10.5.5 Started by: ingenious7, Friday, September 19 2008 @ 01:41 am CDT Views:649, Replies:4 Last reply by: Sappomanno
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Saturday, January 03 2009 @ 02:09 pm CSTHullo,
I found this link, and the
method explained by dherberd resolved
the
issue
[url]http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-server/298314-samba-shares-hfs-extended-attributes.html#post1432514[/url]
C.
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| Open Directory |
Workgroup Manager PreferencesWorkgroup Manager Preferences Started by: jeffh, Friday, January 02 2009 @ 09:16 am CST Views:54, Replies:0
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Friday, January 02 2009 @ 09:16 am CSTI am running 10.5.5 on a MacPro. When I
use preferences to manage the apps the
user group can run, the user still can't
open some of those apps that are
allowed, specifically, Garage Band and
Firefox although there are more. If I
use the folder option an
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| Open Mike |
Amazon affilate?Amazon affilate? Started by: patgmac, Thursday, January 01 2009 @ 05:05 pm CST Views:49, Replies:0
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Thursday, January 01 2009 @ 05:05 pm CSTAre you not doing the amazon affiliate
links anymore? I usually make it a point
to click through your links when making
a purchase over there.
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| Questions and Answers |
Mac Enterprise ManagementMac Enterprise Management Started by: Shadrocks, Tuesday, December 30 2008 @ 08:53 am CST Views:101, Replies:1 Last reply by: esod124
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Tuesday, December 30 2008 @ 02:54 pm CSTI'm wondering if the "lightly managed"
Macs are bound to a macintosh server? If
they are, that's a good start. From
there, if you are knowledgeable about
Mac OS X Server, you can set up a golden
triangle where authentication is
performed by Active Director
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