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.
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.
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…
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.
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 just surfaced out of a situation with a Mac Server connected to ADwith Kerberos Authentication. Much help was received from Apple and I was given permission to share the "fix" for anyone else out thereattempting this type of solution.
If you have an Open Directory infrastructure, and you want to secure your connections between the client and Open Directory services using SSL, the simplest solution is to purchase SSL certificates and install the certificate on your Open Directory Master and each Replicas.
If you are in an environment where you are integrating Mac OS X with a 3rd party KDCs, you already know about builtin:krb5authnoverify addition to your /etc/authorization. But did you know that you can use the builtin:krb5authenticate option to provide better security by assuring that your KDC is not being spoofed?
Corsair has updated their series of "Securing Mac OS X" white papers to include "Securing Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)". This is an update of the Tiger version to include "the new security features offered by Mac OS X Leopard."You can find this, previous versions, and others on their Technical White Papers page.
If you've ever tried using the command line to change the defult NetBoot image on your OS X Server, you know that it can be a pain in the butt and have probably resigned yourself to just using the GUI -- even though it…
