[nerdtech]

We ran into this exact same issue today – except with Mac OS X 10.4.8 client… I’ve been banging my head on my desk all day…

What error messages are you seeing? We’re seeming to be getting a strange UTF-8 related one. This is an installation of the latest official MySQL package for Mac OS X 10.4, 32-bit. We saw problems immediately after upgrading to 10.4.8 [repairing permissions before and after updating to 10.4.8]. We can’t even strip out MySQL and re-install it successfully. It still breaks.

Thanks in advance.

[nerdtech]

I will give this a shot – I was just wondering if you have any other updates to this, since posting these entries.

I just picked up a Belkin router – and need to get this going, since my static IP is going away. I am planning on using the Belkin router to do the routing/NAT/DHCP, but I do want to be able to VPN in…

Physically, are all of your LAN stations off of a switch, connected to the LAN port on your server?

This is what I am thinking, as far as physical set-up goes:

DSL –[x.x.x.x]–> Router –[192.168.0.x]–> OS X Server –[10.0.0.x]–> Switch –> LAN machines

Does this make sense? Because the server certainly cannot deal with a dynamic IP straight off of the DSL line.

Therefore, the router would provide a static IP to the server – and also use DDNS to make sure that the network as a whole is reachable…

[nerdtech]

Well, I switched the Ethernet configs around [public and private] and also swapped the cables – and things still seem to be working… Let me know of there anything to be wary of.

I made sure to turn off DHCP and NAT before doing it, and also made sure to switch NAT to be active on the other Ethernet port as well.

Thanks in advance!

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