You might have read some of our previous articles talking about using kicker to perform actions on network status changes.This was always an unsupported solution, and with Leopard it turns out that Apple no longer…
So this has recently been discussed on the MacEnteprise list, but we thought we'd try and collate these ideas into a real world example. Most of you should be aware of how you can use MCX to manage preferences for your directory service.
Recently we've seen a few updates that have caused some stability problems from Apple, notably some of the wireless drivers with recent Santa Rosa based MacBook Pros.If you're running an Apple Software Update Server for…
So a few people on the macos-x-server mailing list noticed that recent versions of OS X Server seem to be building up large numbers of Disabled/Asleep connections on their AFP servers, even with appropriate disconnection settings when users don't have files open.
These are the slides from Andrina and Nigel's presentation on "Optimizing Mac OS X Server File Services" at MacWorld 2007. As we promised the attendees... up within the hour! :) For the new readers from the site who weren't familiar with the site, welcome!
So a while ago we put together an article on tuning your AFP server for OS X Server. I'd been promising part #2 for a while, just to cover some odds and ends, but there has been a major development which made a lot of that work redundant, namely the release of the Universal version of OS X Server 10.4.7.
Filling in the holes where the system lags a bit, here's a quick way to get e-mail quota warnings out to your users So I got bitten this morning by a user who hit their IMAP quota limit and didn't get any alerts from Mail.app about it, possibly because he reckoned he hadn't quit Mail.app or logged out of his machine for about a month...
As of 10.4.6, if you've got a GPT partitioned disk, you can use diskutil from the command line to resize volumes... nigelkersten@zombie: ~ $ diskutil resizeVolume Disk Utility Tool Usage: diskutil resizeVolume [Mount Point|Disk Identifier|Device Node] size <part1Format part1Name part1Size> <part2Format part2Name part2Size> ...
From looking at the mailing lists and discussion boards, you'll see that a reasonable number of people seem to be having problems with their AFP servers under OS X Server 10.4.x, particularly under heavy load with network home directories, and particularly in terms of stability.
You may have heard about the upcoming integration of theblojsom blog server in Tiger Server when it comes out. I really like blojsom, and have been running it for a while now.
