It was a dark and stormy afternoon when Ian (maccanada) and I sat down to fight the beast that is LDAP migration from an up and running 10.3 Server to a brand new, out of the box, 10.4 server. Lucky for you, the battle was won by us, and the gory details of the fight will lay themselves out for you as you read on...
That info tab with all it's empty fields has been taunting me with all it's wonderful uses, but sitting down and filling in 500+ users with all their individual data is not something even I'd wish on my worst enemy!
Get RADIUS authentication working with Open Directory and more on OS X Server RADIUS allows for 802.1x, WPA Enterprise and other forms of authentication.
Get Windows to play nice with your OS X clients using NFS AD integration works reasonably well for Mac OS X clients, but what if you're running, say, an XServe G5, and you need to provide access to Windows-based home directories for multiple command-line users (via ssh, telnet, etc.
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.
Having issues with group memberships on mobile accounts? Read on for one method of solving this.
Add more control to your Squid proxy server by adding LDAP authentication Using plugable authentication modules and Open Directory you can easily limit who is able to surf the web.
Allow each of your users to have unique spam settings using Amavis and LDAP.
Who needs Exchange? With MRBS you can do your resource scheduling for less. A walk-through of how to set up and configure an interesting open source meeting room, or other resource, web-based scheduling solution.
A strange request for our first "AskAFP": I'm interested in knowing what people want to do with disk quotas on OSXS for AD users. I'm coming up with a few scripts that should automate this whole process. I'm curious to know if people want to enforce quotas on a group basis, or just for users.
