HOWTO: Mac OS X BSDP Service using a GNU/Linux ServerThis article describes how to setup a Linux machine to provide BSDP services to Apple Macintosh machines. Read on for the whole recipe...
Many of you are aware that you can open Directory Access, click on the Server menu item, click Connect, and fill in the address, username, and password of an OS X Server and then make changes to the server's authentication settings as if you are at the console.
Ever had to change the IP on a server that's without any local supervision, behind who knows how many firewalls, in another country, with only SSH accesss sticking out of it?
Update: The upgrade will be postponed to the 8'th of december.The forum software will be upgraded to the latest and greatest version on the 8'th. This means forums will be out of service for about 1 hour starting from 10:00 AM UTC.
There is now a security checklist covering 10.4 and with limited coverage of 10.4 Server available from the SANS S.C.O.R.E. team. You can get the guide here.
Syslog-ng can be used as a replacent for Apple's syslog. It gives the ability to filter logs on criterias others than just 'facility' as for example : name or IP address of the source machine.Ed. Note: It's not really syslog that Apple includes in Tiger, but the Apple System Log, ASL.
Custom AD add-ons continue! A script to manage who can log on to a machine. Ed. Note: It would be possible to do this with a loginwindow SACL on the local systems, but this login hook will match the local machine's hostname with a list of acceptable machines held in AD.
The next macenterprise.org webcast, Apple's new Intel Xserve, will take place on Thursday, November 30th 2006. Join Alex Grossman, Sr. Director Server and Storage Hardware at Apple. He will lead a discussion about the new 64-bit Intel Xeon-based Apple Xserve.
Here is a freebie application that mounts network home directories in an Open Directory environment. The program does a quick LDAP lookup and mounts the Volume. It also lets you specify a second mount volume for shared files.
After a six month testing program, PaperCut Software have released their final version of PaperCut NG for Mac OS X Server. The Mac version has all the functionally of the popular Windows edition including, print quota, print monitoring, shared accounts, release station and rule based filtering of print jobs.
