Check spelling in SquirrelMail on Mac OS X Server 10.4.2
This is an updated to my article/instructions for making "Check Spelling" work in SquirrelMail.
Category: Servers and Services
Using apple_spotlight_module in Tiger Server
Sherlock is back! If you remember back in the day when Apple was touting Sherlock indexing for webpages, this is for you. You can now do this with Spotlight, which should yield a more consistent experience.
Tiger broke Password Service
Since upgrading my OD master and replicas from 10.3.9 to 10.4.2, the Password Service pegs both processors on the OD master for 8-10 minutes whenever a password is changed. Doesn't matter whether the password is changed from WGM, terminal, or managed client.
1:1 Laptop Program Server Infrastructure
I am part of a team designing the infrastructure for a 1:1 Laptop Program. We will have roughly 1,000 users, four different buildings, and mobile home directories. In addition, we will have several graphic labs (G5's), lit labs (eMacs), and libraries (iMacs).
Setting Up the TFTP Server in Tiger
As the networking infrastructure guy, I occasionally have the need to update hardware or backup settings using the TFTP protocol.
Quick how to on DNS, Open Directory, and network home folders.
Piecing together all the information in the tiger server docs is a pain. I created these two pages to show people how to setup Tiger server as an Open Directory Master and share out Home folders. Ed. Note: We have some more in-depth versions of this in our downloads section, but these are good overviews for the impatient.
Digital asset management
I wanted to have a consolidated list where myself and others can conveniently find digital asset management solutions. Specifally at the moment, this list excludes records management and web content management software. The software listed varies between business- and enterprise-class scalability and flexibility.
Configuring Tiger’s syslogd to accept logs from external devices
Getting syslogd to be network aware in Tiger While we have an earlier article on this, it was only for 10.3. So here's an updated version that will walk you through using syslogd with launchd.
Blojsom error with Long Names in Tiger
The implementation of Blojsom by Apple for Tiger Server 10.4.x has one serious flaw, which users should be aware of and will lead to a close-down of the whole Blojsom context. When Users add their blog in the /weblog/ context they should use their short names (with no spaces by default) or use long names which have no spaces.
Migrating LDAP Users and Passwords to a Clean 10.4 Server
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...