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Ok, so what’s the problem then? I don’t understand what exactly is not working.

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You don’t need the Windows server. Just use ISC dhcpd; it’ll do dynamic DNS plus failover to the other server. Easy to install with MacPorts, and easy to configure with Webmin.

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10.4.10+ will boot a new Intel Xserve. Not sure if it’ll work from 10.4.7 that’s been upgraded, or if you have to start from 10.4.10. I’ve started from 10.4.10.

What new mail features in Leopard were you looking for?

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Please post forward and reverse lookups for your Xserve. Be sure to use lookupd if 10.4 or dscacheutil if 10.5.

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AFP is almost always the service that taxes the server the most. The small number of email accounts that you have aren’t doing much. Also, don’t feel like you have to load 10.5 if you don’t want to. 10.4 works fine on the new Intel servers, though you have to start with 10.4.10 Server or higher.

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Just turn it off and load ISC dhcpd. That’ll easily give you all the config options and should work better.

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Is the OD Master running DNS also? Or are you only getting DNS from the network?

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Put AFP at a minimum on the Intel XServe. You could really just migrate the whole thing over, as the new Xserve is a lot faster than the old one. Setup the old one as a replica, backup DNS etc.

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I’d think that would be a fine server for plenty of people; at least a hundred or so, but it really depends on demand. Are you sure you need all of those services? Do you really need print? Think it through a little more thoroughly. You may consider another inexpensive server or two for some of the stuff like DHCP and DNS, simply to avoid having all the eggs in one basket.

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Ok, Joel, just smack me around in public. Maybe I should have said that it’s turned off by default and strongly discouraged. 🙂

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You cannot login as root to an AFP share. If you’re trying to synchronize, use rsync 3.0.2.

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Thanks! Obviously it can be done from GUI. I want to do it from command line. The documentation sucks eggs.

Looks like this is what I want to do since I pretty much never put Full Control on a directory for anybody. [code]chmod -R +a “allstaff allow list,add_file,search,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,file_inherit,directory_inherit” “/path/to/folder”[/code]

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Thanks! For example, I want to apply an ACL to a directory that gives the “allstaff” group R/W permissions. Then I want to propagate that ACL all the way down through all the sub-directories so they all have inherited permissions. I’ve never seen examples of that, and those are likely some of the most common commands used on any server.

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You have to make Postfix-style aliases, as in http://osx.topicdesk.com/content/view/45/41/

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Huh, well, we haven’t had any issues with that stuff, since the local user caches are in the User homes on the server. I’m surprised at the Word icon issue that you have.

Since simply clearing that out fixed our issues, we never dissected it further to see precisely what we needed to delete.

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