These are the slides from Andrina and Nigel's presentation on "Optimizing Mac OS X Server File Services" at MacWorld 2007. As we promised the attendees... up within the hour! :) For the new readers from the site who weren't familiar with the site, welcome!
HOWTO: Mac OS X BSDP Service using a GNU/Linux ServerThis article describes how to setup a Linux machine to provide BSDP services to Apple Macintosh machines. Read on for the whole recipe...
Syslog-ng can be used as a replacent for Apple's syslog. It gives the ability to filter logs on criterias others than just 'facility' as for example : name or IP address of the source machine.Ed. Note: It's not really syslog that Apple includes in Tiger, but the Apple System Log, ASL.
Custom AD add-ons continue! A script to manage who can log on to a machine. Ed. Note: It would be possible to do this with a loginwindow SACL on the local systems, but this login hook will match the local machine's hostname with a list of acceptable machines held in AD.
In 10.3 and later, Macs bound to and and autheticating against AD kindly warn you when your password has expired and allow you to change it at the login screen.
As many probably already know, the iChat server introduced in 10.4 is based on Jabber and uses the XMPP protocol. This makes it possbible for the server to act not only as a standalone instant messaging server, but also as a gateway between many different protocols.
One of the big features of Tiger Server's mail server was the addition of spam filtering. It was a bit bumpy in the beginning, but once you fix the bayesian filtering things work quite nicely. A question that always gets asked is, "How much spam am I blocking?
Part 3 of the series where we focus on DNS and mail. You can find Part 1 and Part 2 of this series which were published eariler.
Quicktime Streaming Server is not often talked about as one of the *big* features of OS X Server, but if you need to stream audio or video content it's hard to beat.
Keeping logs of all your traffic Although we've mentioned AWStats a number of times before, we've never really gotten into how to set it up. While this isn't exceptionally hard, it's nice to have someone go there before you if it's your first time out.
