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Networking

Ethernet Herding

Port Trunking, Trunked Ethernet and Bonded Interfaces are some of the terms that get thrown around for what is more commonly known as 802.3ad.

By andrina 6 min read

Event

Toronto OS X Integrators Birds of a Feather Gathering

Sponsored by IronGate Server Management & Consulting, in association with Digital Transitions the innagural OS X Integrators Birds of a Feather gathering is taking place at MaRS Discovery District on College St. at University Ave., Toronto, Canada on Tues June 13th from 6PM-8PM.

By andrina 1 min read 2 comments

Podcast

Call For Discussion Topics

You find reading the plethora of OS X Server knowledge on AFP548.com just isn't enough, and are feeling some horizons need to be expanded.... You need something more challenging to listen to on your commute... Enter - the AFP548.com podcast!

By andrina 1 min read

Mail

Communigate Pro with LDAP Authentication

With all the issues related to Sarbanes-Oxley compliancy, and contracts being written to cover all losses and lawsuits related to any security breach in network setup these days, along with the desire for System…

By andrina 1 min read

News

Universally Great Widget!

Our new AFP548.com RSS widget is now universally great - well, ok, perhaps I mean it works on the new Intel based Macs.

By andrina 1 min read

macOS

Essential Sudoers

The sudo (superuser do) command is a very useful and powerful part of the OS X unix underpinnings. It gives the ability for certain users to execute some or all commands as root while logging these activities providing a clear bread-trail of who did what to the machine.

By andrina 5 min read

Servers and Services

Mac OS X Server Administrator Topics Documentation

Apple has put up a nice bit of documentation on their developer site on some the more advanced topics that systems administrator may be interested in. Topics covered include Kerberizing the Mac OS X VPN Server, Creating Mail Account Bundles, Setting Up a Network Library, Setting Up Key-Based SSH Login and Incorporating User Images in Open Directory.

By andrina 1 min read

Networking

Going all NATural

We've all seen the NAT tab on Server Admin, and been very impressed that we can do IP forwarding, or IP forwarding and NAT - but where to after that? Enter The NATural, an all new GUI tool that allows you to manage those NAT settings.

By andrina 1 min read