Leopard Server Quickstart Guide

Authored by: tony on Wednesday, March 05 2008 @ 05:10 am CST

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 05 2008 @ 11:14 am CST

I frequently used Carson's quide for Tiger and looked around to see if he had done something for Leopard. I appreciate his effort with this and also appreciate the fact that Cory is just a good guy anyway.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 05 2008 @ 02:21 pm CST

This is great and exactly what I was looking for.
Quick question: Why use Leopard's new folder re-direction (Sys/Lib/CS/Managed Client) when you can use Mobile clients and choose to sync only their Documents folder?

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Authored by: Amerrican on Thursday, March 06 2008 @ 12:17 am CST

The guide has been useful.
However I am having two problems and can't seem to work them out.

1. IMAP mail for several new users doesn't work, Mail gives the error "The server error encountered was: Mail service ACL is not enabled for this user". Can't seem to make it work.

2. The server cannot be backed up by any method. Superduper (which we used on Tiger) and Carbon Copy Clone both fail, and stall the computer about 2/3 the way thru. Can't find any evidence of the failure in the logs. Time Machine has also been tried, and fails the same way (server needs to be restarted in a most unpleasant way).

Help, anyone?

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Authored by: tony on Thursday, March 06 2008 @ 07:33 am CST

I really hate to the be the one to say this but Leopard Server is bug ridden nightmare!
Having setup Tiger Server 10.4.11 numerous times perfectly; the new Leopard OS is simply broken in my experience.
I followed the instructions in the guide (excellent btw), and all I've had were unexpected error messages.
DNS is set fine : odm.apple.private
OD Master is set fine.
Everytime I try adding a new user in WGM I get an unexpected error, yet if I ignore it, it seems ok.
I set up mobile accounts
From my laptop (Leopard 10.5.2) I am able to log into Leopard server; it correctly prompts me if i want to create a local account based on my network one, I say yes.
The synching works fine
Yet when I try to connect to the server from the Finder side panel; it fails.
It's as if it doesn't recognize my login info. I have to then Connect As and then it'll work.
Lots of similar issues enough to make me reconsider wiping it out and reverting to Tiger Server.

Is it just me? or is this OS really not ready? Any help would be greatly appreciated

PS. I've also tried reapplying the 10.5.2 server combo in hopes it would eliminate those pesky errors. No joy.

I installed in on a Macmini Core2Duo with 2Gb ram

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Authored by: agerson on Thursday, March 06 2008 @ 08:43 pm CST

Thank you for putting out the documentation that Apple should have.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 13 2008 @ 04:14 am CDT

I have set up folder redirection for Cache and Font folders but when the users log in it sends AFP process crazy upto 120% cpu. running fs_usage show mainly calls for /Library/Cache

Is this not working correctly, AFP does calm down after an hour once everyone is logged in and settled, but things are a bit choppy every morning

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, December 30 2008 @ 05:21 pm CST

Just wanted to say that this guide absolutely saved my life yesterday. I'd configured my Leopard Server on a non-production server, and then after business hours, moved the final data, and brought it up, set DNS for the production machine, tried to Kerberize it, and... nothing.

I've been running OS X server (one machine) for over four years now, and gone from 10.3 to 10.4 with only modest difficulty. The 10.5 DNS/OD/Kerberos binding process is just the most un-mac-like, un-*nix-like thing you could imagine. The DNS spawns reverses that aren't what you're setting up, and is super-twitchy about each field, but requires substantially different inputs from 10.4 or 10.3. The OD bind thing is totally new, and there's several new dialogs in the promotion process.

In short, I could absolutely not have done this successfully without the help of this guide. Thank you for taking the time and effort to really carefully show the walk-through, show system responses for correct inputs, and how to tell whether each step actually worked.

This guide is about a million times more useful than Apple's documentation, and is the only thing that kept me from having to roll back the new server install to 10.4, and try again another day.

YOU. FREAKING. ROCK.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 27 2009 @ 07:27 am CDT

This guide is a bit special to newby server administrator. thanks

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