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Any news?

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: maccanada[/u][p]The Kerb realm can be created or destroyed using sso_util[/p][/QUOTE]

I read the man page of the sso_util command but it didn’t help me.
I need to change the Default Realm Name from something like SERVERNAME.DOMAIN.LAN to DOMAIN.LAN.
With sso_util I only managed to get these informations:

[CODE]servername:/ root# sso_util info -g
Default Realm Name: SERVERNAME.DOMAIN.LAN
servername:/ root# sudo sso_util info -r /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1/
This machine is part of a kerberized directory, realm name is:SERVERNAME.DOMAIN.LAN[/CODE]

How can I change the Default Realm Name?

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Thanks,
I’ll pass it to my boss! 😉

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Is your server an Open Directory Master?
I was experiencing similar issues when using half-bridge mode.
Refer to [url=https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=39&showtopic=9910]this[/url] thread for details.
HTH.

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Let’s enter the debug mode (again)… 😥

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Well, it actually turned out that maybe the switch to manual IP solved the problem. Indeed, we didn’t have any more failure since the one reported in my former post.
However, after we played a bit with the G5 and a new PCI Ethernet card (only to find out that it seems we picked up an incompatible card… more info in a thread I’ll open in the “Questions and Answers” forum), we cannot succesfully switch again from DHCP to manual.
I don’t know what this depends on, we’ll try another router, but meanwhile I configured the present router to use DMZ to forward all the traffic to the server’s IP address.
What are the disadvantages of this solution compared to the half-bridge mode one, if any?
At the moment, it seems it’s working pretty much in the same way (from the user point of view).

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: macshome[/u]

Try it now.

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I’ve just received the first forum post notification in a long time.
Did you change something?
However, now it works, thanks.

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This is very frustrating.
Is there any forum administrator out there?!?

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: XFox[/u]

Now let’s see it the server authentication hangs cease, too! 🙂

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AAAARRGHHHHH!!!!!! 👿

Let’s enter the debug mode (again)… 😥

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I have Recursion enabled in my DNS server, too, and I manually edited named.conf to forward all the requests for external domains to the ISP’s DNSes.
I made other several test and the very odd thing is that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t! :rool:
I didn’t manage to work out what causes one behaviour or the other, but I’m sure that the ISP’s DNS servers listing in Network preference pane doesn’t change anything because I got successes and failures with and without them.
I also found that when the “switch” works a subsequent reboot of the server does not break the magic.
I’m really wondering what the hidden ingredient is! 😡
Do you have any suggestion?
I already looked at the system and console logs but I didn’t notice any relevant information.

P.S.
Now let’s see it the server authentication hangs cease, too! 🙂

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: XFox[/u]

I’ll perform another try today.

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No way, it didn’t work (for me).
I copied the settings to the manual configuration exactly as it were in the DHCP one, I restarted the modem/router, I restarted the server but nothing made the Internet connection working. I tried the DHCP with manual address, too, but I had to revert to DHCP.
A weird thing is that if I set up the interface in Manual mode the Network Status view shows that I’m connected to the Internet… it lies.
I don’t know if it may be useful but here you are some screenshots:

[b]Network settings control panel in DHCP mode (Internet connection working)[/b]
[img w=467]http://homepage.mac.com/xfox/NetSet/DHCP.jpg[/img]

[b]Network settings control panel in Manual mode (Internet connection [u]not[/u] working)[/b]
[img w=467]http://homepage.mac.com/xfox/NetSet/Manual.jpg[/img]

[b]Network Status view in Manual mode (Internet connection [u]not[/u] working)[/b]
[img w=467]http://homepage.mac.com/xfox/NetSet/Network%20Status%20with%20Manual.jpg[/img]

[b]Network settings control panel in DHCP with manual address (Internet connection [u]not[/u] working)[/b]
[img w=467]http://homepage.mac.com/xfox/NetSet/DHCP%20with%20manual%20address.jpg[/img]

Any idea or suggestion is much appreciated. 🙁

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For any who will find this thread by searching the Internet, the cause of the network transition messages is the router configured in half-bridge mode.
Refers to [url=https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=9910]this thread[/url] for all the details.
And yes, I should have searched the forum before posting… 😳

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: OD Master[/u]

This means that the DHCP lease time is just 30 seconds causing the “Network Transition Occured” after each renewal. The short lease is necessary when running on a line with dynamic IP, but with a server you will certainly have a static IP from your provider?

I had the same with a Netgear DG632 ADSL Modem so I simply changed the primary interface to manual with the values that DHCP provided and the messages are gone.

Hope this helps,
Norbert

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This really helped me a lot, thanks Norbert!
Finally I found the cause of those weird messages every 30 seconds.
However, Apple could put a note on this behaviour in the [url=http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303859]article[/url] that suggests to use half-bridge mode! 👿
I’m using a [url=http://www.hamletcom.com/ProductDetails.aspx?sid=f00dac899b914fd39fc18ebad51faa7f&ProductId=3405&CategoryId=18]Hamlet HRDSL640 ADSL Modem Router[/url] and I’ve already tried once to follow your instructions by configuring the primary interface to manual but I ended up with no Internet connection, so I had to revert to using DCHP. I’ll perform another try today.
Meanwhile, do you know if some modem/router implements half-bridge mode in such a way that the server interface is required to be configured in DHCP mode?
I have this doubt because of the former failure and because the [url=http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303859]Apple article[/url] seems to say to configure the server’s interface in DHCP mode… 😐

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Thanks Guillaume,
I tried your trick.
It’s indeed magic, it works as you described but I cannot confirm the fix right now because at the moment the server’s internal modem appears shared.
However, I noticed the “allow other users to send faxes through this computer fax” checkbox was unchecked even if the fax WAS visible on the network… :question:

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Did you find what was causing that?
I’m experiencing a similar issue on Mac OS X 10.4.7, my DirectoryService.server.log contains a bunch of lines like:

…
2006-09-29 16:15:11 CEST – Network transition occurred.
2006-09-29 16:15:41 CEST – Network transition occurred.
2006-09-29 16:16:11 CEST – Network transition occurred.
2006-09-29 16:16:41 CEST – Network transition occurred.
2006-09-29 16:17:11 CEST – Network transition occurred.
…

I get the message every 30 seconds.
However, I didn’t notice that mach error in DirectoryService.error.log.

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No answers?
I’m on Mac OS X 10.4.7 and I found that usually the built-in fax modem of Mac OS X Server is shared with the clients in the network without changing any default settings but [i]sometimes[/i] it disappears. I suspect this is related to the name change we made in
Printer Setup Utility.app –> View –> Show Fax List –> Info on Internal Modem.
We changed the default name from “Internal Modem” to simply “Fax”.

However, the base problem is still here, how can we turn on and off the sharing of the built-in intenal modem for faxing with Mac OS X Server 10.4.x?

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