User Functions
Don't have an account yet? Sign up as a New User
Lost your password?
Poll
Do you have an offsite disaster recovery site?
336 votes | 1 comments
|
|
Saturday, February 06 2010 @ 12:01 pm CST
Contributed by: macshome
Views: 111
 We've just emerged from the dumpster behind Moscone Center and buried in a pile of lettuce leaves and coffee gounds we've managed to find four more full conference passes for the Macworld Conference & Expo next week in San Francisco. If you are going to be in the area, love Mac system administration, and want to go to some awesome sessions then you need to try and snag one of these passes.
Same rules as before as this is an email race.
The first four(4) people to get an email to: mw2010ticket@afp548.com will get one of the passes. Use "MW2010 Email Race" for the subject line.
On your marks. Get set. GO! We have our final round of winners!
Sunday, February 07 2010 @ 08:59 am CST
Contributed by: magikben
Views: 101
 I know that this isn't completely tested to see if it is a consistent behavior, but I ran into an issue after upgrading a Leopard server to Snow. The server was running mail services utilizing both the standard spool location and an alternate mail store. After the upgrade all seemed to be well, but we shortly discovered that the users who used the alternate mail store didn't have access to their existing mail. The users in the standard location were just fine. After poking around I saw that the alternate store contained two sets of user mail directories within the dovecot directory. One was named with the users shortname, ala Cyrus and the other used a GUID, ala Dovecot. Apparently during the upgrade the existing folders were converted to Dovecot format, yet new folders were also made. By renaming the folders with the shortnames to the GUID, proper functionality was restored to the users mailboxes. It was a simple fix, but it took some poking to figure it out. Also being new to Dovecot it took me longer than it probably should have to resolve. Hopefully this will save someone else some time.
Friday, February 05 2010 @ 01:45 am CST
Contributed by: macshome
Views: 251
 Going to be in the San Francisco area next week? Bummed out that you couldn't afford/con your boss into buying you a Macworld Conference pass for 2010? Well you are in luck! We've managed to score a limited number of full conference passes for the show next week. These aren't the expo floor only passes, these are the conference passes so you can go join your Mac sysadmin peers and learn all sorts of fun new stuff. Because this is all on very short notice we are going to do the contest that everyone hates. The email race. The first six(6) people to get an email to: mw2010ticket@afp548.com will get one of the passes. Use "MW2010 Email Race" for the subject line. On your marks. Get set. GO! And we have our winners! If it wasn't you then keep your eyes peeled. We are digging around for more passes...
Tuesday, January 12 2010 @ 10:19 am CST
Contributed by: cedge
Views: 515
 GroupLogic is working to bridge the gap between corporate mass archival solutions and Mac OS X. With a new product called ArchiveConnect, the makers of Extreme Z-IP now have a product that provides the ability to fully integrate CommVault's Simpana. This allows you to reduce the required footprint of on-line disk capacity while being able to meet compliance and data retention requirements. Check out their webinar at: http://www.commvault.com/webinars/details.asp?id=1083
Wednesday, January 06 2010 @ 09:44 am CST
Contributed by: macshome
Views: 662
 You may have noticed that your Mac OS X Server has become a bit aggressive about flagging e-mail as spam. This is because the default ruleset was created long enough ago that any e-mail from the year 2010 was obvious spam, or sent by time traveling robots. All you need to do to correct the issue is to update the future date rule. We were about to post our own article on this topic when Apple went and posted an official one. This fix should work any SpamAssassin setup that you have. Enjoy! Apple TS3187: Mac OS X Server may classify some inbound messages sent on or after January 1, 2010 as spam
Thursday, December 31 2009 @ 08:52 am CST
Contributed by: MacTroll
Views: 1,324
 Part four in our continuing saga of getting some business continuity
for ourselves. This article is of a more personal nature as it covers
one of the mainstays of the AFP548 worldwide disaster recovery
solution. Every morning at 4 am we take a copy of MySQL database that
holds the past 8 years of content here and move it from the wilds of
Illinois to relaxed saftey of the MacMiniColo.net data center in Las
Vegas.
Read on for how we're doing this...
Thursday, December 31 2009 @ 08:50 am CST
Contributed by: MacTroll
Views: 490
 The Enterprise Desktop Alliance has their survey for 2010 out. This one focuses on support costs and ratios. Find it here.
Monday, December 07 2009 @ 01:26 pm CST
Contributed by: Mactastic
Views: 2,837
 For several months I've been searching for a complete solution that can offer access control, authentication, integrated search indexing of all content and content management itself for a company intranet that can dispense the following to our internal users: - Training videos, shared contacts, job aid resources and content management
- A PHP based web front end to access our databases of clients, cases, task management, etc.
We're running Leopard Server, Kerberos, LDAP and all that other fun stuff. But we also are a mixed platform environment with remote branch offices running isolated windows domain workgroups, accessing our intranet from across a VPN. (not my doing) The problem that I'm having is that I cannot find any one great solution, application or API that can integrate our intranet with our LDAP on Leopard Server for authentication on a remote intranet proxy. I don't just want to rely on creating a secured realm, I want something smarter. I also want this solution to be as simple as possible from the end user's perspective and do things like allow local unauthenticated (or kerberos) access from workstations on our LAN or workstations on our site to site VPN, that traffic is trusted and should be able to totally bypass authentication or at least allow authentication to happen in the background. Maybe I'm asking for too much in search of a solution but I don't want to make our users re-signon when they want to switch from our database front end to view training materials, or to access webmail, or view the collaboration wiki content. I also don't want users to have to rely on 5 different methods of searching our intranet to find what they're looking for as well. I figure that for what I want to do, I will have to: - Come up with a custom spotlight search API for Apache, that will not only singularly index web content, but integrate database content as well.
- Figure out how to modify apache to openly serve the site to trusted internal IP addresses or use WebDAV with kerberos single sign-on.
- Come up with a public web proxy where remote users can authenticate with their LDAP credentials and then access the intranet from remote locations.
So if anybody has a suggestion to accomplish any of this on Leopard Server, or knows of a great resource on how to do any of the following, like: modify the spotlight search plugin for apache, integrate LDAP authentication within a web page, modify apache to only allow certain IP addresses to access a site, use one authentication session ID to access other secured sites, view PDF, word, excel files on a shared volume through a web front end or how to create a remote sign-on proxy. If you have any thoughts on this or know something that would help, let me know.
Monday, December 07 2009 @ 10:25 am CST
Contributed by: kd4ttc
Views: 1,070
 If you are getting an error "Can't assign requested address" you may have a problem with the mysql port. I had just moved my server to a MacMini running Mac OS X 10.6 and mysql_connect was giving this error. Going into the /etc/php.ini file and setting the default port number to 3306 fixed the problem.
mysql.default_port = 3306
The php.ini file suggests that PHP will select the port by using the $MYSQL_TCP_PORT or the mysql-tcp entry in /etc/services, but in this case it is not so. /etc/services on my machine has 3306 listed, but it didn't get picked up.
Friday, November 06 2009 @ 10:12 am CST
Contributed by: MacTroll
Views: 2,541
 Part three in our continuing saga of getting some business continuity for ourselves. After a long hiatus, we now return to our story and begin knocking down the basics of continuity. In this episode it will be a quicky as we tackle DNS. It's always been on the to do list to set up a Disaster recovery site for AFP548.com there just hasn't been enough time to really do it. Well, that's all changed now. Through the generous help of MacMiniColo.net we now have a Mac Mini humming away in Vegas, perhaps having more fun then we are... Read on for what we're doing with it...
| Forum |
Topic |
Last Post |
| Mail |
Mail delivered but not mail li...Mail delivered but not mail li... Started by: billnyhoff, Monday, February 08 2010 @ 10:07 am CST Views:17, Replies:0
|
Monday, February 08 2010 @ 10:07 am CSTI just added a cisco spam and virus
blocker in front of my xserv running
10.4.11.
The mail comes through fine
but mailing list mail doesn't.
Any
ideas?
|
| InstaDMG |
Who's using InstaDMG... need n...Who's using InstaDMG... need n... Started by: larkost, Sunday, January 31 2010 @ 12:00 pm CST Views:320, Replies:8 Last reply by: thomasb
|
Monday, February 08 2010 @ 07:21 am CSTThe Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
(NRK) is using InstaDMG and DeployStudio
for image creation and deployment. Feel
free to mention us.
I wonder how many
that use Apple's tools for image
creation for lagre scale deployment. You
should ask the audien
|
| InstaDMG |
script keyboard layoutscript keyboard layout Started by: toppmac, Tuesday, February 02 2010 @ 03:34 am CST Views:249, Replies:4 Last reply by: hetjan
|
Monday, February 08 2010 @ 06:02 am CSTI'm having the same experience. If I
understand the way Mac OS X works this
method will work for each individual
user but the login window will still be
using the US keyboard...
|
| InstaDMG |
New guy with some issuesNew guy with some issues Started by: chrisb, Monday, February 08 2010 @ 02:19 am CST Views:27, Replies:0
|
Monday, February 08 2010 @ 02:19 am CSTHello,
I've been going through the
process of creating an image using
InstaDMG. I started out small with
creating an image with just the OS X
Snow Leopard install disk and a simple
installerchoices.xml (popular print
drivers, QT7, and rosetta) and that
|
| Questions and Answers |
configd overwrites DNS and rou...configd overwrites DNS and rou... Started by: michael.hieb, Sunday, February 07 2010 @ 07:28 am CST Views:48, Replies:0
|
Sunday, February 07 2010 @ 07:28 am CSTApologies if this is covered elsewhere.
I've looked and found no definitive
answers.
Problem:
OpenVPN creates
a tunnel on a virtual network interface
tap0 which is configured via DHCP. Once
up a script is called to update the
routing tables and set D
|
| Questions and Answers |
automated shutdownautomated shutdown Started by: blackholemac, Wednesday, February 03 2010 @ 02:57 pm CST Views:211, Replies:5 Last reply by: blackholemac
|
Saturday, February 06 2010 @ 08:02 am CSTGreg,
I want to thank you. I felt bad
with my original post because it looked
like I wanted someone to "do it for me".
That drove my to create my shutdown
AppleScript that works really well oddly
enough. I knew AppleScript was the
easiest language that
|
| InstaDMG |
Odd network problem with Insta...Odd network problem with Insta... Started by: jazzace, Friday, January 29 2010 @ 12:28 pm CST Views:191, Replies:2 Last reply by: jazzace
|
Friday, February 05 2010 @ 04:47 pm CSTI spoke too soon. The problem resurfaced
on three different machines today. Any
ideas — even troubleshooting — would be
appreciated.
|
| Active Directory |
How to kerberize OD against AD...How to kerberize OD against AD... Started by: rasmith, Friday, February 05 2010 @ 02:43 pm CST Views:90, Replies:0
|
Friday, February 05 2010 @ 02:43 pm CSTI seem to be having some trouble with
this. I have the DNS setup and the
server bound to AD, but I can't seem to
find anything on how exactly to
kerberize successfully.
I have the
following:
[code]
engr-vstream2:~
admin$ host $(hostname)
engr-vstr
|
| Open Directory |
Error -14278 during dsconfigld...Error -14278 during dsconfigld... Started by: sunnyape, Thursday, February 04 2010 @ 04:44 pm CST Views:108, Replies:1 Last reply by: sunnyape
|
Thursday, February 04 2010 @ 07:06 pm CSTI just read the man pages on
DirectoryService and can see that the
error -14278 converts to
'ePlugInNotActive'
I know the plug-in
is active, as I write the pref file
first and restart the service,
thus:
[code]defaults write
/Library/Preferences/Direc
|
| Open Directory |
Can't bind 10.6 Machines to 10...Can't bind 10.6 Machines to 10... Started by: Moofo, Wednesday, January 06 2010 @ 11:35 am CST Views:255, Replies:1 Last reply by: sunnyape
|
Thursday, February 04 2010 @ 04:51 pm CSTCan you supply the dsconfigldap code
you're using to do the bind?
To reset
the KDC database on an SOE image before
deploying it, use something like
:
[code]rm -rf
/var/db/krb5kdc
/usr/libexec/configureLocalKDC[/code]
|
| Questions and Answers |
Snort Intrusion Detection and ...Snort Intrusion Detection and ... Started by: TimBloom, Thursday, February 04 2010 @ 03:27 pm CST Views:109, Replies:0
|
Thursday, February 04 2010 @ 03:27 pm CSTI have noticed recently there have been
a lot more brute-force style attacks
happening to my clients servers, SSH and
FTP attempts mainly. I would like to be
able to go a little further with
reducing their impact on functionality.
The reason I started to
|
| File Serving |
Monitoring Portable Home Direc...Monitoring Portable Home Direc... Started by: DigitalC, Wednesday, February 03 2010 @ 09:49 am CST Views:122, Replies:0
|
Wednesday, February 03 2010 @ 09:49 am CSTWhat methods are their for making sure
users are actually syncing and if those
syncs were error free?
|
| Mail |
Scripting Mail account setup f...Scripting Mail account setup f... Started by: Per Olofsson, Wednesday, February 03 2010 @ 09:01 am CST Views:130, Replies:0
|
Wednesday, February 03 2010 @ 09:01 am CSTA lot of our users will switch over to
the central Exchange service in a couple
of weeks, and we're thinking about ways
to ease the migration. One thing that
would help a lot would be if we could
send out a configuration script that
sets up a new account i
|
| Active Directory |
Mac Login Slow - Windows Activ...Mac Login Slow - Windows Activ... Started by: piperspace, Wednesday, January 13 2010 @ 05:37 pm CST Views:639, Replies:14 Last reply by: Tom H
|
Wednesday, February 03 2010 @ 01:48 am CSTDrop me a email to Tom AT jigsaw24.com I
have one last thing that may be worth
you trying :)
|
| Questions and Answers |
Is it possible to distribute s...Is it possible to distribute s... Started by: danmmr, Tuesday, February 02 2010 @ 06:41 pm CST Views:161, Replies:0
|
Tuesday, February 02 2010 @ 06:41 pm CSTSorry, I just realized I should have
placed this in the open directory forum.
Can someone move it?
Hello,
Is
it possible to have a sudoers list
shared in Open Directory among Linux and
Mac clients? I know it is possible in
OpenLDAP: http://www.grat
|
First | Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | Next | Last
|