This may work on Leopard Server as well, but I haven't tested it. There are several brute-force VPN protocol attacks rampant on the internet, and they may leave your VPN service in an unusable state by flooding it with connection requests.
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.
This is a bit of perhaps tooting my own horn, but since the content is so apropos, I hope that won't be too big of a deal.
The MacEnterprise.org group will be presenting a Webcast on DeepNines on Tuesday, November 27th at 1:00pm EST (10:00am PST). This webcast will focus on the innovative methods DeepNines has developed to keep networks safe and critical content accessible.
One of the biggest complaints I heard from other consultants and support folks about Mac OS X Server 10.4 was about how bad it was to work with the DNS GUI. They pined away for Panther or relegated themselves to hand coding their zone files.
The next MacEnterprise.org webcast, Intermapper, will take place on Tuesday, June 19th 2007 at 10:00am PDT. In this webcast, join John Sutton from Dartware and Matt Federoff from Vail Unified School District as they discuss InterMapper.
iftop is a free network bandwidth analyzer. In the words of it's creators "iftop is for network usage what top is for CPU usage". It has many useful features including filtering by protocol and network (f) or an arbitrary regex (l) and is now available as a Universal Binary in installer package format.
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...
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?
As many probably already know, the iChat server introduced in 10.4 is based on Jabber and uses the XMPP protocol. This makes it possbible for the server to act not only as a standalone instant messaging server, but also as a gateway between many different protocols.
