Questions tagged [osx-snow-leopard]

Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6) is the seventh major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6) is the seventh major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

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Mac and Exchange Server 2007: Entourage or wait for Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6)?

In a time frame of three of four months from now (fall 2009), I'll have to choose how to natively enable a handful of mac computers to access Exchange Server 2007 (email, contacts, calendar.) As far as I know at the moment there is only one…
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How do I get SMTP Port 25 to be PCI Compliant on OS X 10.6 Server?

When running PCI security scans on this server it fails on port 25 with: SSL Server Supports Weak Encryption nCircle ID: 6174 Port: 25 CVSS Score: 5.8 Not Compliant Description The SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Server supports weak encryption…
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How Can I Open Port 80 On Mac OS X Snow Leopard?

I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard, and I want to start using the included Apache web server. I activated web sharing, and went to http:/127.0.0.1/ in my web browser. Safari couldn't connect to the server. Finally, using Network Utility, I…
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is Snow Leopard Server ready for production?

I installed my 2 XServe 1 week after SL was out, I refrained to start with 10.6.0. I'm planning to upgrade both to 10.6.2 or perhaps I should wait for 10.6.3? Do you consider SLS ready for a production environment?
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Mac creating files w/ wrong perms on samba share

In my group, which is very heterogeneous in terms of machines, we use a samba share to collaborate on files and such. In all but one case, it works as expected (or at least close enough). The one exception is my boss' laptop, a snow leopard macbook…
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How do you best use .default files to reset service settings in OS X Server?

Can someone explain the logic behind .default and .orig files in OS X Server? The configuration files (eg: .conf, .cf files) for most services (postfix, dovecot, etc etc) have these files to help you nuke them when things go wrong. I suppose my…
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Snow Leopard Server SUS Proxy Problems

We are really struggling to get our SnoLo server's SUS to contact the Apple update servers - for some reason SUS does not use the system proxy settings - Apple have a work around (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3099) whereby you enter your proxy…
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Mac Snow Leopard Server DNS

I have a Tomcat-driven application on my Windows server that I am planning to move to a MacMiniServer. Before I do this, I want to fully test the transition for licensing purposes. I have a Fire drive setup with Snow Leopard Server and the base app…
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VirtualHost Forbidden

Hey guys, I'm running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard with the default Apache 2 installation that it comes with and PHP 5 enabled. Anyways, I have configured a VirtualHost whose DocumentRoot is under /Users/blaenk/Sites. This works perfectly fine, but if…
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Snow Leopard update Dec 09. Did anyone else lose their MySQL data?

Initially I had to re-install MySQL when I upgraded to Snow. I managed to get everything backed up to .csv file and was able to migrate to the new install. It worked fine! Earlier this week Mac issued an update to Snow and it seems to have wiped out…
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Snow Leopard Server security

I've read in multiple locations that the Apache setup that Apple provides by default in 10.5 and 10.6 is not really something you would want to use in a production environment because of security concerns. I'm curious if there are differences in the…
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Compiling SVN Perl bindings on Snow Leopard: tests fail

At my work, we have to build our Subversion environment from source since it is deployed on shared applications servers and all dependencies must be contained within the user's home directory. I've developed a script that builds everything…
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(OS X 10.6) ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

I have recently installed Snow Leopard onto my Mac, and MySQL stopped working. I went into the terminal and used 'rm -r' on my old directory, and redownloaded the new version from the mysql website. I followed all of the instructions on HiveLogic,…
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Numeric UIDs/GIDs in ACLs on OS X server (10.6)

On one (old OS X 10.4) server I'm tarring up some files which have ACLs. I'm then using ``tar -xp'' to untar the archive onto a new 10.6 server, which doesn't have any users/groups configured on it yet except the default admin (UID 501) (there's a…
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Unable to authenticate Windows XP clients agains Snow Leopard Server PDC after 10.6.2 upgrade

I have setup a Snow Leopard Server 10.6.1 as a PDC without problems to authenticate Windows XP clients. Joining a Windows XP client to the SLS PDC Domain and log in from a Windows XP client to the SLS PDC Domain are working. After the update to Snow…
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