[bcirvin]

I have not used nfs manager, but…

It sounds like when you changed the user id for the main computer’s user, the main computer thought that the files for that user (originally user id 501) now belonged to somebody else (since you had changed to 2000).

try looking in the users folder of the main machine to see if another folder has been added for your user – if the machine could not access the old home folder due to differing user id numbers, than it would probably make a new folder for that user.

let me know what you find.

[bcirvin]

Ok, I’ve got this figured out with some help from a post on another mac support site.

First, stop the mail server (when you have no users logged in) – choose your mail store from the advanced menu in mail settings in server admin – i don’t trust the point-and-click interface, so type in the mail store box “/Volumes/<the name of your other physical hard drive>/<the name of the mail store you want to make>

You don’t have to pre-create the mail store folder, and you don’t have to put in the /Volumes section if it’s on the same drive – just specify the path to the folder you want whether or not you have another physical disk involved.

Then, drop into the terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and type the following command…

[yourhostname:~] sudo ditto -rsrc /var/spool/imap /Volumes/<the name of your other physical hard drive>/<the name of the other mail store(or the path)>

in other words, you are using the ditto command to copy all your imap spool data to another location, which you have specified via server admin

start the mail service – if, under the general settings you don’t see that smtp is enabled, go to the terminal and type “sudo postfix start”

cheers,
blake/

[bcirvin]

you might have to create the new mail store target directory first? i’m checking on this right now.

blake/

[bcirvin]

if all your clients are g-capable, and the macs are airport express, then i don’t think you need any software for the macs to have them work with cisco stuff – the mac airport “driver” supports leap, wep, wpa, and radius security.

let me know how this goes.

btw: any use of either b will slow down all g access, and any use of a may disable g access altogether…

blake/

[bcirvin]

I’ve heard that you can create symlinks to an automatically mounted remote home – probably would work best by creating the user on the master machine, then setting up the client end to automount at the system level the users folder on the master machine. one could then create symlinks in the home on the client machine that would point to the home folder items in the automounted volume. To create symlinks, check out “man ln” in the terminal (minus quotes).

I have NOT tried this, bear in mind, just hear rumours about it….and, by the way, all of the preferences you refer to are located in the <homefolder>/Library

Paying 499 for the 10 user liscence of server may be easier than all of this :^)

blake/

[bcirvin]

Well – I think the new office might fix your problem.

Are the client machines imaged? With network accounts?

If so, it might work to give everyone read/write access to the folder the template lives in) – which is, unhappily, in the applications folder!

I don’t know if this could be a security risk – I don’t think so, but I would still recommend the new office if you can manage that…

blake/

[bcirvin]

https://www.afp548.com/Articles/Jaguar/userimporting.html

it might need some updating for 10.3, but the app can be modified with script editor (applescript)

blake/

[bcirvin]

it’s similar to canonical names in dns – most browsers will look for aliases (like webmai.whatever.com attached to whatever.com) and these aliases then point the browser to a particular directory of the web server (ie – /Library/WebServer/Documents/webmail_page)

i’ve usually just used the url forwarding features of my hosting service.

blake/

[bcirvin]

i do think that the price of the classes can hinder some from getting certified. one note though – if you can master all the stuff in server admin and workgroup manager, you can pass the test. trust me.

blake/

[bcirvin]

yes, it does almost exactly what your command did. i got the command from some squirrelmail faq.

blake/

[bcirvin]

i used

sudo /etc/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl

any disadvantage to this?

blake!

[bcirvin]

it’s in server admin, in the advanced tab, i think.

10.3, by the way

blake/

[bcirvin]

well, one can always try repairing permissions while booted from the cd

blake/

[bcirvin]

can you change the syntax of the profile path to point to the local disk?

i have not tried roaming profiles in 10 server, so excuse any stupidity.

blake/

[bcirvin]

i have had no problems with straight ssh -2

not using kerberos right now.

blake/

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