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Networking

Tiger and NTLM Web Proxy Auth

I had a powerbook that was upgraded to tiger. The problem was that after the upgrade it was unable to do proxy authentication with our squid proxy, which is bouncing against Active Directory for access to the web.

By sunshine 1 min read

Files and Storage

Spotlight indexing and RsyncX

After upgrading my home system to Tiger, I noticed that my RsyncX backups to an external FireWire drive were no longer working. Much consternation and hair-pulling later, I realized that the Spotlight indexing was causing problems with RsyncX.

By jgardner 1 min read

Apps

ADmitMac vs. Tiger

Thursby's ADmitMac is a full-featured SMB/CIFS client that contains a lot of great features to hook Mac OS X into an Active Directory infrastructure. Be aware, though, that there is a downside involved. Thursby chose to implement a different method of handling resource forks on non-AFP filesystems than Apple uses in its samba-based SMB client.

By jgardner 1 min read

Mail

Amavisd log rotation error

In Tiger Server, some typo has been added to the daily scripts, which are located in /etc/periodic/daily/ These scripts are activated by the Server Admin GUI when enabling log rotation on the Mail logs.

By Deeeep 1 min read

Servers and Services

Blojsom error with Long Names in Tiger

The implementation of Blojsom by Apple for Tiger Server 10.4.x has one serious flaw, which users should be aware of and will lead to a close-down of the whole Blojsom context. When Users add their blog in the /weblog/ context they should use their short names (with no spaces by default) or use long names which have no spaces.

By Deeeep 1 min read