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Questions regarding Apple Mac Server editions of OS X.

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Snow Lepord Server (?) - Server Preferances Login (Unable to set node credentials)

Ok, to start with i'm a windows dev, helping a friend out. He runs a business and has purchased a Mac Server (With Snow Lepord etc) he want to use this as a data store and email distributer (At the moment emails are handeled by POP3 accounts for…
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Nginx server can not start

My nginx server can't start anymore after I killed its process through pkill nginx. Now everytime I try sudo nginx, i get this error nginx: [emerg] open() "/usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.12.2_1/logs/error.log" failed (2: No such file or directory) When…
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Mac OS Server Mobile User Account, for Windows?

I need to know whether it is possible or not to mimic the Mobile User Account of Open Directory with a Windows workstation connecting on the Open Directory domain. The thing is, I need to sync the files on login, keep the files locally for work…
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OSX high sierra time machine server

since updating (fresh install!) to OSX high sierra the server app does not offer the time machine settings anymore. The changelog somehow reflects that, but refers to the system settings --> sharing as a replacement for it. However, I was unable to…
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nginx as reverse proxy for macOS Server's apache

I want to use nginx on macOS as reverse proxy for server's apache. I managed default macOS Server's apache to run on ports 4780 for HTTP and 47443 for HTTPS. Config is located here: /Library/Server/Web/Config/Proxy/apache_serviceproxy.conf Now…
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OpenVPN for Macosx got .ovpn from Windows user but need own key and crt files?

Ok, I don't know if this is something I need to setup on my computer or if this is something that the client needs to give me. I believe a .key file is private, however, I seem to be having issues with this. Basically, I need to access a Microsoft…
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OSX Netinstall Custom Image

I've been searching for a clear method to create a custom Netinstall image of Sierra for a while without success. My goal is to have two administrator accounts by default and some packages (e.g. Slack, Firefox, iTerm2 ...) incorporated with the…
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Mac OS X Server: what's the difference between the server userIDs and locals userIDs? Are they distinct?

super newbie question apologies: I have bought a shiny new Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server pre-installed. I have 5 macs already in the house, and of course on each one there is already a login ID (and password) to actually get into the machine…
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MacOS Server Profile Manager slow to push changes

DNS is fine and I can see in the logs that the server is talking to the laptops but changes sit as 'pending' for a couple of hours before successfully pushing to the machines. In the Service Helper log I have this [2017/01/30 08:47:50.518] Building…
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Auth error: Unable to lookup user record

I have notice at mail-err.log that sometimes i get this error for a windows 7 user (that IP belongs to the client, if add more accounts there i will receive more of this errors for each account user): auth: Error:…
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Delivery error command sendmail through Getmail

I am trying to receive mail with getmail and reroute it through sendmail to postfix. I have managed to connect with my external mail server, but it fails when send those mails from getmail to postfix. I am using OS X with getmail+postfix+dovecot,…
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Using a network mount as user home in Mac OS X Server App (v5)

We have an old Mavericks server with a Firewire drive running and about 200 Users (Mac OS Server v3.2.2). I would like to set up a new server with El Capitan running the latest v5.1.7 Mac OS Server application. For the test phase, I want to use the…
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Mac won't get LDAP users

I have a bit of a problem. I set up an ldap server, that my mac client needs to get users from, but something is blocking it to get the users, when i try to add the server in the users & groups settings. I tried running an ldap search: ldapsearch -h…
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Server Resources for Apple OSX Server

Looking to find the recommended resource specifications, CPU, RAM, Disk, for running internal DNS and Apple Remote Desktop Task Server within a Mac OS only environment on Mac OSX Server. As we currently we do not have any "server" level hardware,…
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Where is Mac OS X Server commonly used?

In what type or roles and network is Mac OS X server commonly used. What does OSX server have that is not available on other Unix enviroments like Linux, or OpenSolaris. What benefits does it have over the Microsoft?
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