Questions tagged [xserve]
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Booting Clonzilla on Xserver 2.1 from CD
I am trying to boot CloneZilla on Xserver 2.1 from CD. I have tried to use C key as well as option and command while booting. It always goes to MacOS instead.
I have also tried to tinker with the second button present on the front panel with the…

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Xserve Xeon: 1TB Drive does not show when plugged in
I've got an Xserve and when I plug in a 1TB Western Digital Drive, the drive does not show up in the finder. There is nothing wrong with this drive, and I am at a lose as to why this could be, some hints and tips would be appreciated.
Thanks

Mister IT Guru
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New hard disks for Xserve RAID
We have an Xserve in our office:
MAC OSX 10.4
2 X 2Ghz Dual Core Xeon
2GB RAM
It has 4x250GB drives in it and we need to expand. What I am wondering is:
Are we limited to what sort of drives
we put in the RAID? (ie do they have to be the
same…

Simon Ward
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Back-up solution for Xserve + Xserve RAID?
I've got an Apple Xserve, connected to a 10TB Xserve RAID. I've also got several other Windows-based servers, and file servers, in the same rack.
My current tape back-up solution runs on a Windows server, and it doesn't play nice with my Mac…

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Our XServe FTP area is not allowing external access
We are a graphic design agency and therefore we work pretty much solely on MacOSX. We have an XServe server and up until yesterday was fine. We have an FTP area where we can upload files to our clients and where the printers can download files…

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Throttling bandwidth for Apache on an Xserve (Mac OSX Server 10.5.8)
I was wondering if anybody has any solutions for throttling bandwidth on an Xserve (running Apache 2); I'm trying to use mod_bw (http://ivn.cl/category/apache/#bandwidth), but have been running into problems. I can build the right module using…
David
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OS X Server 10.4 postfix qmngr is suddenly using tons of resources
I have an Apple XServe G5, running 10.4 server, that I use primarily for my (small) companies website and internal email. Usually, the processor usage hovers around 5-10% total. As I have a rather small company and prefer to use my GMail account,…

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Xserve G5 Leopard Server - How to turn off the beeping when the RAID is degraded?
My XServe G5 is beeping constantly because of a RAID drive that has failed. We're going to get a new replacement drive tomorrow evening.
The beeping is very annoying and I was wondering if there was a way to turn it off?
I've found some articles…
user41883
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Can admin edit a user’s “Manage Account Access” (ical)
As a server administrator, can I edit a user's "Manage Account Access" settings. This is where a user sets who can see their calendar. Whenever we add a new user, we have to go to every person's computer and add the new user's account to this. It…

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XServe won't let me log in
After a power-failure, my Xserve won't let me log in on the login screen. I can still SSH into the box and access its other services, but the login box just shakes when I write either a local username and password or an ldap based username and…

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XServe not recognizing drives in bay
I recently got an XServe A1246 and am looking to install two 1TB Drives in a RAID in it. The issue that I am having is that neither of the 1TB drives are being recognized when trying to install an OS or looking for them in Disk Utility.
Before I got…

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How to use a Apple XServe for NAS/Media storage/server?
i have a Apple XServere RAID Array with one controller complete with 7 500GB HDD s. I am wondering how can I use this as a media typa server (maybe even run Plex?) / storage place for files with my imac and macbook. NAS Servers these days can just…

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How to install X server
I have a linux server where I want to run a jar file but when i run this its showing
at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.checkHeadless(GraphicsEnvironment.java:159)
at java.awt.Window.(Window.java:432)
at…

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RAM not compatible
I'm new here and new to servers in general, so I might just be overlooking something. I recently was given a few free Apple Xserves (3,1). I decided I would try to build a single better server from all of them so took some 2GB RAM sticks from one of…

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