Questions tagged [mac-osx-server]

Questions regarding Apple Mac Server editions of OS X.

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Apache on Lion Server with two IP addresses

I'm trying to run Apache and nginx on the same machine, on different IP addresses. It's a Mac Mini with one ethernet card. I configured two eth network devices. I tried to change the apache configuration in /etc/apache2 to listen only on one IP, and…
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Unable to force restart mac server by remote because no free ram left

I have a Mac server and now I'm unable to remote or even to SSH to reboot since its out of free ram and I can't use SSH to force it restart or not even be able to remote to the screen to restart the server Is there anyway to achieve this other than…
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It looks like somebody is using my Mac OS X server to brute force attack another server which is LDAP. What can I do to stop it?

An LDAP server on another is reporting an unusually large number of attempts to read the LDAP directory and attempting a number of users, all of which look like hacking attempts to read user/password information. These happen every minute. It…
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Can I map a Mac OS Extended Journaled partition on a Windows PC

I have a shared directory on a Mac Server that I want to map to my Windows 7 PC. It worked fine on the old mac server as the hard drive was formatted as NTFS, but on this new one (which we got yesterday) the hard drive is Mac OS Extended…
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Install freetype on OSX Server 10.5.8

I'm running a webserver on my Mac Mini (OSX Server 10.5.8) which has GD installed but not with freetype support. Is it possible to install freetype on this machine? I searched the net but couldn't find a clear answer, could someone provide me with…
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SSH connection gives no prompt, unresponsive

I'm ssh'ing from my OSX laptop to an OSX server. It worked a couple of days ago. Now, when I try and connect, no text is output. My session (with -v option) looks like: ~ $ ssh myserver ... debug1: Next authentication method:…
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How do you set up a Fossil SCM server on OSX

I'd like to run the Fossil SCM as a service that is called when needed on my Mac Mini Server. How should I go about configuring this?
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Managing preference domains with MCX vs. Profiles

In both Workgroup Manager and Profile Manager, you can drop in arbitrary plist files to be delivered to clients. If an application gets its preferences from MCX will it automatically work with Profiles?
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OS X Server script to archive (or empty) a users mailbox every morning

I have a requirement (SpamAssassin 'training') to archive (or delete) two user's (users are junkmail and notjunkmail) inboxes at a given time every day if there is anything in them. Can anyone help me with a script to do such a thing and where to…
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NAS for Mac OS X Server

I'm using Mac OS X Server and want to allow the users that connect to their network accounts to store their data on a NAS drive. I want the users to connect to the Lion server as this allows for better policies and management for me and for their…
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copy on OSX server preserving posix & acl

I am looking to move my fileserver from one xserve to a new one. Both are bound to the same open directory master. I am having trouble copying and preserving all of the posix and acl permissions. I have done it in the past with tar -pcvf but I…
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mysql variable resets after exit

The web interface for accounting / time tracking software (Clients and Profits X) requires a open connection to its mysql database. Right now the web interface is not used on a regular basis and this times out. When someone DOES want to use the web…
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Is the Xgrid Controller still a 32-bit process?

So Lion generally represented a pretty serious move toward 64-bit systems for Mac OS X. But while I was poking around the Lion Server: Advanced Administration guidelines here:…
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Windows 7 + OSX 10.7 Server: all files created by Windows users have permissions -rwx------

Here's my setup: I have one Mac Mini Server running OSX 10.7 Server set up as my network's primary file server. (I just finished installing it yesterday afternoon.) It shares files to 10 or so computers running Windows 7. So far, I have: Created…
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Can OS X Lion Server users be authenticated to an external LDAP server and also have access to Profile Manager?

I am researching whether the Profile Manager included in Apple's Lion Server edition is a viable option to use to manage iOS devices OTA in our organization. While going through the documentation for Profile Manager and Lion server, I became a bit…
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