Questions regarding Apple Mac Server editions of OS X.
Questions tagged [mac-osx-server]
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How to build a PDC connected to Open DIrectory on OS X 10.6
Since OS X Server has an older version of Samba that cannot be used with Windows 7, I want to setup a newer (3.5.5) Samba server as a PDC. I want to continue to use Open Directory on the 10.6 OS X Server to keep account information. Has anyone…

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How to change hidden atribute on .htaccess file on OSX Server when access via SMB from Windows?
How can I remove the hidden attribute on a .htaccess file that is stored on an OSX server that is accessed from a Windows machine via SMB? When I currently remove the hidden attribute it does not stick.
Many thanks

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OS X 10.5 Server DHCP and VPN continually lose settings
I've been placed in charge of an OS X 10.5 server (which is trapped at 10.5 because of its PPC architecture.)
Unfortunately (perhaps around once a week - frequently enough to be really, really annoying) the DHCP and VPN servers loose all of their…

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Mac OS X Server 10.6 refusing to serve web pages after SSL certificate replacement
I run a web site that is hosted on an Apple Xserve running Mac OS X Server 10.6. Today, I replaced an expired SSL certificate with a newly acquired certificate. I also deleted the old certificate. I made these changes with the Server Admin tool.
The…

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Mac server processor blowing up to 100%
My mac server's processors are showing 100% on all the four processors. I am running server 10.5.8 and this server is the master LDAP controller
Looking at the activity monitor, I find that the process 'slapd' is hogging all processing time
What…

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Changing Apple Mac environment www record
Apple server gurus? I have a Mac OSX Snow Leopard server question. How to be able to view a company's externally hosted website from inside the company?
I inherited a company using Mac OSX Snow Leopard server. We moved the website away from MobileMe…
chairish
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how to rerun snow leopard server initial configuration wizard again?
is there a way to restart the config wizard which goes through the few first steps after you install snow leopard server. is there a way to get that wizard to force run it again at a later date rather than wiping and loading again? thanks.

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Windows Vista/7 dropping Mac Server share points
My Windows Vista and Windows 7 clients are having problems maintaining access to SMB shares on a Mac server. The initial connection to the server appears to be OK, as the Windows clients can see all of the server share points. However, the client…

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8-core 2.93GHz Xserve
I am thinking to buy a 8-core 2.93GHz Xserve. I will use oracle on it. What do you think about this? Can you please suggest a better solution if it exists? And can you please say your opinion about this server? Will it work and will it be fast with…

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An unsolvable DNS situation?
We are about to deploy a simple server in our small office to host the typical small office things (a mac server for email, calendar, contacts etc). We quickly run into this strange DNS problem:
The local clients need to resolve against the local…

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OSX Server VNC configuration
We've had a good deal of trouble configuring our Xserves so that various systems can reliably connect to them via VNC. One particular sore spot has been making the built-in screen sharing client on ordinary Snow Leopard connect. Is there a reliable…

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osx server files keep locking (read only)
We are a web design company who develop off files stored on a osx leopard server. The issue is that when a developer creates files using textmate in a folder for a new website, when another developer using dreamweaver goes to open and edit these…
Alex Crooks
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Merging Multi-Platform Domains
I really did not know how to title this one its quite a complicated one. Or I am just completely overlooking the solution telling me I need to open my eyes.
Scenario:
Two Companies, Company A and Company B
Two Domains, Domain A and Domain B
Two…

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10.6.4 Apple Wiki: New just created users can do nothing?
After update to 10.6.4 there's an issue: any new users that I create in Server Prefs/WGM can't post to their blogs, comment, create wiki pages... They can't do anything!
There's log from Wiki errors (when user DURAK tries to create new blog…

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Server Admin is not allowing me to configure DNS
We have a Mac OS X 10.5.8 Server running DNS (and a few other services).
When I connect to it (using Server Admin 10.5.3 [which comes from the Server Admin 10.5.7 tools]), and click to look at the DNS settings, all appears normal -- it shows many…

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