Advanced Configd Configuration
When dealing with funky network issues it's handy to be able to tweak configd a bit to see what's going on.
Year: 2005
Tiger broke Password Service
Since upgrading my OD master and replicas from 10.3.9 to 10.4.2, the Password Service pegs both processors on the OD master for 8-10 minutes whenever a password is changed. Doesn't matter whether the password is changed from WGM, terminal, or managed client.
ADmitMac vs. Tiger
Thursby's ADmitMac is a full-featured SMB/CIFS client that contains a lot of great features to hook Mac OS X into an Active Directory infrastructure. Be aware, though, that there is a downside involved. Thursby chose to implement a different method of handling resource forks on non-AFP filesystems than Apple uses in its samba-based SMB client.
Setting up a catch-all e-mail address in Tiger Server
This past weekend, I had my first request to set up a catch-all address for a domain in Tiger server. It's fairly simple, and it requires some command line interaction.
Workgroup Maintenance Schedules?
Not exactly an OS X Server issue, but still a question for the admins here: I admin a smallish design studio (15 or so users) and am working to put together a schedule for regular maintenance.
Creating, mounting, and dismounting disk images from the command line
Recently I was writing a shell script in which I needed to create a disk image, mount it, write to it, and dismount it. The command in OS X that manages disk images at the command line is hdiutil, and the man page is rather long.
1:1 Laptop Program Server Infrastructure
I am part of a team designing the infrastructure for a 1:1 Laptop Program. We will have roughly 1,000 users, four different buildings, and mobile home directories. In addition, we will have several graphic labs (G5's), lit labs (eMacs), and libraries (iMacs).
Setting Up the TFTP Server in Tiger
As the networking infrastructure guy, I occasionally have the need to update hardware or backup settings using the TFTP protocol.
Quick how to on DNS, Open Directory, and network home folders.
Piecing together all the information in the tiger server docs is a pain. I created these two pages to show people how to setup Tiger server as an Open Directory Master and share out Home folders. Ed. Note: We have some more in-depth versions of this in our downloads section, but these are good overviews for the impatient.
Mail backup script for Tiger
A while back Joel put up a script to backup the key components of the mail store for 10.3 server. With Tiger, we got the added benefit of AMaViS/ClamAV/SpamAssassin so I made a few changes...