[slavkom]

I’ve been exploring this very issue for weeks! I’ve got a test server set at home behind a firewall with DNS set up for my local network. For my internet domain “idiotshow.net” all services are nat’d to my server and works well for my normal web site “www.idiotshow.net” and everything else. Not so good with the group wiki/blog feature, the groups appear on the web site but you get a error 404 if you try and connect to it. It does work as expected on my local network and I suspect it would work if my server was in a DMZ with an ISP that was hosting my domain.

The settings for web services are confusing, this group blog thing seems to work ONLY if you use the servers FQDN in all the settings for web and iCal also. I’ve been trying to get a handle on the “Teamserver” damon/service that seems to be the conduit linking these services together. Unfortunately, I’ve not been able to find much info on this yet. At this point, I’m not even sure this behavior is wrong.

Make sure your DNS is good, use the full DNS name for web and iCal…enable the group to use the blog/wiki feature add your users and it should work.

Mike

[slavkom]

[i]The workaround that Apple sent me didn’t work. So no point in posting it. The only thing I’ve found that works for us is to do the install as workgroup and not advanced. Looking forward to 10.5.1… [/i]

If it’s not to much trouble…would you mind posting the steps you used to get this working? In your set up, can you access the group blog from the internet?

Thx,

Mike

[slavkom]

FYI-

[i]Just heard back from Apple. The wiki problem is now a known bug. There is supposedly a workaround where you have to do everything in just the right order – I’ll be trying it tomorrow. Apple says they’ll be addressing this bug in an upcoming release. Hopefully it’ll be the NEXT release. From the sound of things, some folks might have discovered the magic workaround by trying different things. If the workaround I got sent works, I’ll post it.[/i]

This was posted on Apple’s forums…I’m sure this is related but the group wiki/blog/calendar ONLY works on the network the server is in! I was able to access the site from work today and got the same 404 error for the group blog. 🙄

I’m not going to freak cause I have time, I’m planning a summer deployment on both campuses this summer hopfully this issue will soon be resolved.

Mike

[slavkom]

I got it to work! 😀 I am running 2 web sites from my server, looks like the wiki/blog must be run from port 80…last thing I checked. Thanks all your help!

Mike

[slavkom]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: MacTroll[/u][p]So I just redid this by hand with an Advanced Server and didn’t have any issues… not that that helps you necessarily.

So, let’s find out what’s different?

– Using LDAP?
– Anything else not working that you think should be?
– Is the group showing up in WGM as having a blog associated with it?

You should see in WGM with the Inspector a ServicesLocator assigned to the group. This is a combination of the machine account’s, probably your server in this case GUID, a base64 packing of the DNS name, IIRC, and then the service that’s assigned to the group.

This should also correspond to a apple-serviceinfo entry on the computer account itself, advertising what the machine can host.[/p][/QUOTE]

The two do not match! Yes, users,group all in ODM, everything (That i use) seems to be working, yes for the “media” group they have calendar,webcal,wiki.blog all in service locater entries.

In the machine record only ::anyservice which seems like any service is cool. Should the two have matching entries? I’ll play around with this and manualy enable services to see if it makes a difference. When you install…do you start out as a standalone or “workgroup? then promote once DNS is working? Could this be a DNS issue? I’ll double check everything.

Thanks

Mike

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: MacTroll[/u][p]You can set up the wiki and calendar entirely from within the Advanced Server.

The method I have found to be the easiest.

1. enable wiki in the web admin module within Server Admin
2. Use the new Directory App to actually enable users and groups for wiki access

Ignore WGM for the time being and see if you have better luck.[/p][/QUOTE]

Thanks for your reply! Unfortunately the problem remains 😥 however, it helped! I can now create a wiki! but clicking on the group results in a 404 error:

“404: No group with that name (wiki) hosted on this server”

These guys have the exact same issue:

[url]http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1212194&tstart=0[/url]

[url]http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1213692&tstart=0[/url]

I can authenticate to my web site to create a wiki but as far as I can tell I can’t enable the group but it does appear as a group. Something is missing in the process that results in this breakdown, I’ve tried enabling things in different orders, is this tied to iCal in some way? I think my iCal server is working properly, I’m able to create a user and share a calendar with iCal Server. Will continue to explore this issue and report back any answers. Anyone else seeing this?

Mike

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: MacTroll[/u][p]Dead and gone.

What were you looking for?[/p][/QUOTE]

Wow completely gone? I thought it was an interesting new approach…want went wrong? Just got 10.5 server in

Might have a new round of questions soon 😀

[slavkom]

I saw this problem myself (Server 10.3.5). I was able to fix it this way.

In Workgroup Manager select the user account having the problem…go to the Inspector…

Make sure the “dsAttrTypeStandard:NFSHomeDirectory” attribute is present. In my case, it was missing and I too got the same error. I had to add it to the user account with a complete path to their home, then it worked again.

I have no idea why it vanished or if this is what your problem is…worth a shot. Good luck…

[slavkom]

You can pretty safely ignore this, but if you want to make it go away…

edit /etc/xinetd.d/ssh and remove the “IPv6” flag. that’s in that file.

I do believe that this will prevent IPv6 ssh logins, but if you were using those I don’t think you’d get the errors.

That did the trick! I tend to get somewhat anal about logs One reason is someone has been pounding my server trying to log on via ftp & ssh for the last two weeks…so I’m in the process of tweaking my security settings.

Thanks…

[slavkom]

That did the trick! Thanks Joel!

Mike

[slavkom]

Joel,

This is one of the qestions in the 10.3 ATCT assessment guide I’ve looked everywhere in the server manuals (where I assume the answer could be found)

Mac OS X: File Systems This topic has 8 items, drawn from the following objectives:

•Use features of the Finder, such as CD burning and Secure Empty Trash.
•Use Disk Utility for a variety of disk and file system-related tasks.
•Manage existing disk images.

•The typical resource search paths and search order for application and system resources, such as fonts, including resources that users can access and those that only the system can access.

[i:d765a3decc]•The results of opening files archived from a case-sensitive file system on a caseinsensitive file system, both in the Finder and from the command line.[/i:d765a3decc]

•The advantages of journalling.

Identify various methods for archiving personal data.

It doesn’t say what method was used for archivingjavascript:emoticon(‘:?:’)…

[slavkom]

NO one knows the answer to this? 🙁

[slavkom]

to be fair…this is the first update that has borked something.I forgot to mention some other problems. My admin account could no longer make any changes in WGM even though I was authenticated. Plus suddenly I had to enter a password to use CUPS. I don’t know enough about unix to remedy these problems. All I know is that they all surfaced after applying this update.

I’m glad apple releases timely updates buit having to reinstall & reconfigure your server is a PITA! 😈

[slavkom]

linkage?

[slavkom]

I”ve successfully used the following mappings with address book:

givenName (firstname)
sn (lastname)
title (job title)
o (company/college name)
telephoneNumber
mobile
facsimileTelephoneNumber
mail
street
l (city)
st (state)
postalCode (zip)
‘c’ (country)

Here’s some standard RFC mappings that I’ve tried that don’t work or aren’t used:

cn (full name)
ou (department?)
description
physicalDeliveryOfficeName
houseIdentifier
homePhone
organizationalStatus
displayName
employeeType

Apple’s Open Directory documentation, Appendix A, says the following should work, but they don’t:

postalAddress
pager
departmentNumber
buildingName

I’ve had no luck in finding something that will display department, mailstop, or physical building and room number location in Address Book.

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