Questions regarding Apple Mac Server editions of OS X.
Questions tagged [mac-osx-server]
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Memcache Error? "Could not find specified socket in poll list."
For some reason recently I've been getting this error in my apache error log on my server. We have a single instance of memcached running on our Mac OSX 10.7 server.
(20014)Internal error: Unknown memcached error while writing: Could not find…

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Root being controlled by ARD
I run an educational lab of 20 iMacs, all running Mac OS 10.7.5(11G63) with ARD version 3.6.2. My server and all of the iMacs run Lion. I seem to have crossed something and now my root user is being controlled with the same preferences I have setup…

Fuhton
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How to properly configure OS X Server 10.7.4 for SSH (password)?
Is there a setting somewhere that overrides the user password for SSH? Whenever I try to login via password to my os x server I get an error message in secure.log ->
Failed password for < user > from < ip > port < port > ssh2
The password is…

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What is the best way to "publish" an intranet wiki on an external hosting solution
We have our own intranet server with wikis on it. It is accessible from the outside, but we don't host our webpage on it. We keep most of our data in sync there, it's great for collaboration.
We marked some of our documents public and we want them…

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Apache 2.2 on Mountain Lion ignoring ProxyPass and sending request to DocumentRoot
I have sickbeard running at 127.0.0.1:8081/sickbeard
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass /sickbeard http://127.0.0.1:8081/sickbeard
ProxyPassReverse /sickbeard http://127.0.0.1:8081/sickbeard
in httpd.conf
And yet when I try and access…

James H
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Why are two IPs responding to my ping?
I'm having a weird issue. On one of a mac, I noticed it was having some weird issues communicating with the server. I pinged the server, 2.0.5.90, from the terminal on the mac, and here are the responses I am seeing.
64 bytes from 10.0.5.90:…

Brett G
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Server App - Users
I'm using mac OSX lion server, and I'm trying to setup a user account with access to different services.
I had to create the user in Prefs > users and groups, because it wouldn't work in the Server app. In the server app, it kept saying "This…

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Mac Server bizzare routing table
My mac routing table usually is very simple.
I know it's based on bsd , but what's it doing or trying to do.
My routing table is usually very simple
however, the second one, default was point to link5 ?
Is this normal, or is this IPV6 craziness at…

The Unix Janitor
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Find whats using all my servers bandwidth
TLDR: how can I dig deeper into my Mac mini OSX server to determine what processes are consuming so much bandwidth, or where all the inbound traffic is coming from?
Resource caching is on, all resources are minified or images crushed, our pages are…

Benno
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Mac Mini as a server in small network
I'm thinking about setting a small network and having a Mac Mini as the server. I'll need to make it accessible remotely, used to share files locally and remotely. There's need to backup everything up constantly.
This is the current setup i'm…

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Pointing a domain at my OSX Lion web server
I recently inherited a new Mac Pro, and I'm attempting to turn it into a full web server so I can hopefully stop paying someone else to host my sites for me. I've had limited experience messing around with setting up servers, but I have next to no…

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Kerberos Login Failed: Cannot resolve network address for KDC in requested realm - Kerio and Open Directory
I'm attempting to connect Kerio to an Open Directory instance. I'm using kinit to test the setup, and I get the following:
$ kinit -V -S host/server.domain.co.uk@server.domain.co.uk igor@server.domain.co.uk
Please enter the password for…

Mister IT Guru
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VPN (on OS X 10.4.11) - Behind two firewalls
How do I properly route VPN traffic past two firewalls?
Network setup: DSL Modem/Gateway/Router(FW1) >> Router(FW2) >> VPN Server
Ports open on both routers/firewalls:
L2TP (UDP 500, 1701, 4500)
PPTP (TCP 1723)
FW1: 192.168.1.x
FW2:…

Crusty Barnacle
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Adobe Reader won't launch when logged into network user accounts (Open Directory)
I have Adobe Reader 9 installed onto the local hard drives of my workstations. The application launches from local user accounts and functions as expected.
When users are logged in with a network user account Adobe Reader unexpectedly quits at…

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Remove MySQL (from Apple) on OS X Server Lion
I have a Lion Server (upgraded from a Snow Leopard Server), which still has the Apple provided MySQL 5.0 server [mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.92, for apple-darwin10.0 (i386)]. Without out rebuilding the entire box, I'm trying to determine how to…

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