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You are correct. I do not have AD, just OD.
I have DHCP set up (at least it is suppose to be) so that the DHCP supplied LDAP Servers are added in (I have that check box check in the clients Directory Access LDAPv3 Plugin). But it is not showing up in the lists.
I have the DHCP set up so that it gives this particular laptop the same address each time. I noticed in the menus on the server (Server Admin) for the static maps, they do not have all the features and options that a subnet does. Is that the problem?
The reason that I suspect that it might be is because my son’s laptop just uses the normal subnet settings (it gets a random ip address) and it works fine.
Is there a way to have my cake and eat it too? Can I have a static map that is sent the LDAP settings just like a subnet can?
(this probably needs to move to a different forum).
Thank you,
Perry

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I have tracked down my problems to a call to sasl_decode in prot_fill (in imapd).

To recap: I am getting IOERROR: unexpected end of file in my imapd log file. The client interface is also slow and sometimes crashes.

It turns out that if the client has Kerberos GSSAI authentication and the client tries to do an “APPEND” command (which is what the imap protocol uses to add a message to an existing mailbox), the APPEND frequently fails (but not always). The rest of my Kerberos stuff appears to be fine.

The APPEND is sent across to the server. The client can be set up to do LITERAL+ or not. The client sends all of the message in either case. The server reads all of the packets. Usually the first packets go through the sasl_decode and result in valid text. But after the first block (4096) or so of data, the remaining data is lost and sasl_decode reports back that there is only two valid characters. No errors are reported back (that I am aware of).

I ended my quest at this point last night and I probably will not pick it up again. For now, I can work around the problem by switching to plain authentication and just set up a VPN before using mail.

I hope this helps whoever follows in my footsteps…

Perry

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Anyone looking for a fix to this, please look here

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[QUOTE BY= Joel Franusic] Use the command:
export COPY_EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES_DISABLE = true

Before using tar, it seems that the problem is with the copyfile() function, which is part of the new 10.4 code that preserves forks.

See also: http://forums.macosxhints.com/printthread.php?t=43243

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Encountered this problem again (10.4.4 client), found this thread (again), tried the export … as suggested and it worked for me.

Thank you to Joel (and the rest of AFP548)

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I would follow the instruction above but have a concern. In my /etc/services file, I have port 2000 listed as “callbook”. I’m happy to comment that out and out in the sieve line but wanted to make sure that is the right thing to do.

This is a fresh 10.4.4 install on a Mac Quad G5. I have had a lot of problems with this install. It appears (keep your fingers crossed) that my last small nit is lmtpunix can not find defaultbc. In fact, aside from /usr/sieve (which I just created), the whole directory tree is not there.

Currently, I have not enabled squirrelMail. I do not know what it is but assume it is a method to read mail via a web browser. I suppose I would like to get the sieve scripts working but I have not used them before. I’m actually just trying to get a sane stable platform. I think this error is not a real concern but thought I would try and fix it along the way just to make sure. The sieve stuff sounds pretty cool — but, what computer science person ever takes a vacation? 🙂

Thank you for your help

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I am making progress on this. Everything on my server is set up and works properly. I need to read about Open Directory and decide how I want to set up my cliet.

For new comers to this site, there are “old” articles in

https://www.afp548.com/Articles

That is where the kerberos articles are at.

Lots of really great stuff on this site.

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General Disclaimer: I’m an old Unix hack but I don’t know much about the postfix mail system that Apple uses. I just groped around the man pages and pieced this together.

smtpd is kicked off by master. The master config file is in /private/etc/postfix/master.cf

You can edit master.cf and find the line with smtp as the first word and inet as the second word. Dupliate that line and replace the first word (the one that says “smtp”) with a port number.

What I did was I went to /etc/services and defined a service. It looks like port 26 is not used so I defined port 26 as “mysmtp”. Basically, edit /etc/services, find the two lines starting with smtp, duplicate those two lines but changes smtp to mysmtp and 25 to 26.

In my master.cf file, I put “mysmtp” as the first word (and inet is the second word). But it can be just a raw port number. The other fields stay the same as the smtp inet line.

After all this, you need to do “postfix reload” from the command line.

I tested my set up once (isn’t that enough 🙂 and it worked.

I am not sure if port 26 is a wise choice. I will need to explore that as I move around to the various sites I work from.

In my case, the command: netstat -a | egrep smtp

shows both smtp and mysmtp as being listened to.

Good luck.

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It is a 10.3 upgrade (but I’m not clear what the difference between upgrade and migration). I had 10.3.8 server. Plopped in my DVD and installed the new software. But, then I had to go back and fix a bunch of things like my web server.

The DNS looks fine to me:

host easeserver.easesoftware.net
easeserver.easesoftware.net is an alias for easesoftware.net.
easesoftware.net has address 64.243.207.99

host 64.243.207.99
99.207.243.64.in-addr.arpa is an alias for 99.96-27.207.243.64.in-addr.arpa.
99.96-27.207.243.64.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer easeserver.easesoftware.net.

But, I can’t find my reverse lookup map now. I’m sure it is coming from my DNS but when I get into Server Admin, go to DNS, and click settings, zones — it is empty. The forward map is at godaddy.com.

Thanks for your help

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