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backup solutions

2007-08-13T08:17:29Z

What tape and backup software are you using for your server? Any recommendations for a backup solutions? Whats working and what is not? Thanks

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Dock Crashes for Network Users

2007-01-15T22:11:10Z

I'm having this problem where the dock randomly crashes ONLY for networked users. Users who are local to the machine never experience this problem. When the Dock crashes it is not possible to restart the Dock process. It's also not possible for the user to log out or restart the computer as the computer will hang during the log out process. It is possible, however, to log into a local user (a local admin user), where the Dock works fine, lauch a terminal window, and perform a "sudo shutdown -r now" command to restart the computer.

I'm running 10.4.4 on all the network machines with 10.4 Server hosting the LDAP database. I've got mobile user turned on for my laptop, just in case that might matter.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?

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I can't find my way out of this one...

2007-01-15T22:10:50Z

Hello everybody,

Here's the problem: I installed OS X Server 10.4 on a G4 (1.2 GHz) and started building a file serving system for 4 to 6 users. Everything worked fine until I tried to have some users access the server via ftp. Now I can't launch afp services anymore (no errors, but no launching either), I can't start-up the computer from a) another harddisk b) a CD/DVD - all I get is a "wrong way" sign...

I zapped the PRAM and repaired permissions... Any ideas?

TIA,

Tarek

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Tech Question: Ethernet Cables

2007-01-15T22:10:34Z

Hi! I thought some of you techies out ther could help me with a question:

How long can an Ethernet cable be (needed to cover large distances between buildings) - (cabins in the woods in this case) and still perform adequately for normal internet surffing from a satellite modem broadband connection?

For example, if the dish and modem are in one location and we want to connect a second buildning that is 150 feet away WITHOUT USING WIRELESS, can we do it?

THANKS for your advice!
Brook

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disc not being read in imac g3 need help

2007-01-15T22:10:07Z

plzz look at mne need help disc drive in g3 does not realize dis in tray and when i ty 2 play cds it says the cd rom was not loaded be sure i have a driver connectted plzz help me

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Mirroring XRAIDS

2005-11-15T15:51:26Z

Has anyone ever successfully mirrored 2 XRAIDs?

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multi platform

2005-10-07T14:02:14Z

any one know

Whats the best way to set up a network w/o vpn's
so that data can be share with multiple platforms?

Jeremy

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Anyone know Flash?

2005-07-07T08:22:17Z

I'm looking for someone that can do a rush job (by July 10th 2005) on eighteen quiz-type flash files with 10 questions for each quiz. No need to save any data, no need for any graphics. True/False questions, scale 1-5 questions, "pick one" or "pick one from the list", and even a "fill in the blanks". But mostly True/False.

If you know Flash and know this type of quiz writing, this job could lead to several more just like it (though without the rush :)

Please email me for details and your experience with Flash.

Thanks!
~Ribbon~

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DHCP question

2005-06-28T17:39:37Z

Is there a way to allow a DHCP range (i.e. 192.168.253.100 - 200) yet extrapolate an IP or a couple of IP's in the middle? (i.e. 192.168.253.52, 57)

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LDAP Connection Failure?

2005-06-24T23:13:00Z

Anyone seen this line in their log files?

InitLDAPConnection or ldap_init failure: Logging Failed LDAP connection with incomplete data

I've got it several times - I guess every minute or two.

I'm fairly certain it's because I tried setting up LDAP services on the server and have messed up some settings.

Any ideas on how to turn that off?

Thanks!

BTW: Mac OS X Server, 10.3.x (not sure exactly)

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Darwin Streaming Server

2005-06-15T00:04:11Z

hello, anyone here have any experience broadcasting a live audio/video stream using the program Broadcaster on a mac, to a Darwin Streaming Server running on a remote linux box? if so, and you have some time to offer some help, please respond here. also please respond here if you have any useful links, like tutorials or HOWTOs that may be of use to us.

thanks in advance!

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Podcasting w/X Server

2005-05-05T12:48:45Z

I run a couple of OS X servers, one of which is used primarily for QTSS and Broadcast. One of the things we do is post a 1/2 hour long news feed as an mp3 file. I'm looking for a good way of turning that into a podcast.

Do people create their own podcasts, and what do you use to write the RSS feed? should i be looking at iPodderX or something similar?

thanks!
Milo

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Opinions needed

2005-05-04T18:45:52Z

Hey everyone! I'm working on a course project for my intellectual properties
class (which means it's one I actually enjoy for a change). If anyone has a spare 2 minutes, can you please go here www.createsurvey.com/c/24872-WDlyHK/ and take this really short survey.... it's basically collecting opinions on the similarities between two
songs.

Thanks in advance... your responces really help a lot!

Cheers!
Chris in Nashville

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Joining 10.3 Server to a Windowd domain

2005-04-06T17:56:50Z

Doen anyone have any really good documentation on joining a 10.3 server to a Windows domain?

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Help me, oh lords of Mac

2005-03-25T18:33:24Z

I am in desperate need of a start-up disc (CD, not floppy) for a 7.0-7.5.5 Powerbook 1400c. There is vital info I need to retreive ASAP from it. If you are on California's northern coast (Santa Cruz - Humboldt), my VM is 800-242-0363 ext. 5563, I'd appreciate any help. If anyone knows a website to download this info in CD form, Please help. Thank you.

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Jobs as Mac Sys Admin...

2005-03-12T02:41:14Z

I had the very nice opportunity to set up a couple Xserves at my university, and have an innate desire to learn and do more with these wonderful machines!

Human Genome, clustering, SANS, RAIDS, BLAST, render farms, you name it... I'm interested!

I'm a little lost on how to make myself known and marketable as a Mac OS X Sys Admin. In your experience, are there jobs that are looking specifically for Mac OS X Systems Administrators?

Also, I am looking into taking supplemental classes to bolster my credentials. Would you suggest Sun Administration? Oracle classes? Any combination of classes that would make a newbie wannabe *NIX administrator lucrative? Any help is appreciated :-)

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email server software?

2005-03-12T02:37:33Z

What is the best email server software for osx? I'm looking for something that's easy to configure.

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Web Server on Startup?

2005-02-21T16:57:44Z

Hi all,

I'm running a no frills version of OS X Server 10.3.X on a G3 tower at home. Every time it reboots, everything starts up except the web server. Is there a way to make sure this service starts on reboot? thanks!

rob

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Wiki

2005-01-30T05:47:07Z

Has anyone had expirence installing Wiki onto OS X Server? I read some awesome doc on installing it onto the client, but am leary of goofing up the current Apache stuff

thx,
Milo

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Need a hedge fund/back office solution for Mac OSX

2004-12-08T04:57:16Z

Peace and love guy I'm a MacOSX user just like you brothers are and i need a big time software project and i would to give the business to Local talent(follow me) .
listen I run a growing hedge fund and i'm planning in the new year to move to the mac osx platform and we needeither native software or some programmer to port over window based software to the mas osx platform . were a hedge fund company
for example of the software needed (www.knowledgestorm.com/sol_su...y_63768.asp) or(www.alternativesoft.com/) or (www.archwaytechnology.net/Products.htm) this is what we need but for the mac OSX platform
will contact ASAP for project cost and time frame. if you brother can't help then will farm it out to the russian or indian's to port it for me

Peace and Love

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Small Hosting Companies?

2004-11-24T17:29:34Z

Hey there,
Just wondering if anyone else is running their OS X Server as a small (<100 domains) hosting company...

The reason I ask is because I'm looking for someone to trade backup hosting services with - you act as a backup host for my domains, I'll do the same for you.

I'd prefer the server be located *not* in the southeast US - that will lessen the chances that a storm or other "natural" event takes out both servers.

Any ideas? Sites that might have info like this?
Thanks!
--Ian

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vba script vs applescript

2004-11-20T21:01:14Z

I want to run a microsoft powerpoint process one a server and interact with it to create a powerpoint file. Apparently this can be done with VBA script, built into powerpoint on both mac and PC platforms. Would that be the way to go, or would using applescript make it easier to interact with powerpoint? The goal is to make a command-line process which can produce a native powerpoint file but using powerpoint itself, but programatically.

Anyone have any ideas or advice to offer? Has anyone ever tried something like this? Anyone have any resources they can point to for how to do something like this?

Thanks in advance for any ideas or info you can share.

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File Sharing for Windows???

2004-09-16T00:39:12Z

I've tried setting up file services for windows but I am having problems accessing from a PC. I need some help and understanding. Has anyone here come across with problem? Running Panther Server. Window server suppose to be up an running. I have user accounts but they can't get to the file.

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OS X Server Panther

2004-09-15T22:53:08Z

Here is the problem. I did an update on the server and booted back up. No problems. Then after a day or two, I had to reboot. At that point the server doesn't want to go to the agua login window. It is straight on terminal mode. I put in my login and my password then tells me there is no home directory for my account. So, I am stuck in a loop. I can remotely control the server from another computer, but I need to get back into the server. Anybody have any ideas or can link me to somewhere to get this fixed. I would greatly appreciate it.

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New to Mac OS X Server...

2004-09-03T20:02:14Z

I currently work for a small business and I just got a new server to replace one that was ripped off a week or so ago. Anyway, I did not set up the original server and I experiencing a few issues getting things up and running.

First, I added all the users via the Manager yesterday and put the shared files in the public folder on the HD. All user were able to log on and use the shared datafile of our point of sale system.

When I came into work this morning it appeared that several interesting things occured during the night. All of the client connections to the server had timed out, the IP address of the server had changed (to a number completely different from our scheme) and I could not browse to the server and its new IP from any of the clients.

After a little adjusting I was able to have DHCP assign a new IP (one in our scheme) and get all the clients back online with the server, even though I had to connect to the server by manually entering the IP rather than being able to browse for it.

Do any of you have any idea on why these things might be happening i.e. IP address changing overnight, server connection timing out, not being able to browse for the server from a client?

Any information would be greatly appriciated!

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Non-Routable IP / Domain Name

2004-08-29T16:40:19Z

Anyone here host several website domains?

Anyone ever had to add a non-routable IP address for a specific domain name?

I'm in the process of researching adding SSL to a domain and have read that it will need a unique IP address. From what I've read, I can add a "non-routable" IP rather than pay my DSL company to add a "routable" IP to my service. Is this true? And how would one go about it?

I've been looking for a way to do this through Webmin, but am Unix savvy enough to be able to do it from the command line...

All help will be appreciated!!!

Ian / RadiantWeb Services

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Clustering?

2004-06-14T20:45:23Z

Does anyone know how I can attempt to cluster a bunch of G4 733 using Panther? I would really like to know..

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HOUSEKEEPING PLEASE READ

2004-03-06T15:37:39Z

Hey Peggers and Pegees,
It's your humble Moderator here. I got an email last night saying that Tribe is enabling a feature that will turn these topics into RSS feeds that can be picked up and carried across the net. At least, that's my simple understanding of it. In my opinion, i would rather not let others repost this content. I like the fact that people have to join tribe to read and participate. But that's just me. Please read the email from Tribe.Team and let me know what you want to do.

Thanks,
Milo

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A Caution

2004-02-03T03:19:42Z

I ran the 2004-1-26 security update today, and for some reason it wouldn't let me back in. I ended up booting into single user and running F-Suck. minor pain in the butt, but i thought i'd mention it. I did not have such problems with the client version of Panther.

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OSXS Panther upgrade broke my PHP pages!

2004-01-23T22:15:08Z

Hey all,

I'm having the weirdest esperience with PHP web pages after my upgrade to OS X Server 10.3 on my XServe.

PHP seems to work, technically, but all the PHP services I had set up on my intranet don't work anymore, such as Sune Alexandersen's webexplorer (provides FTP-like file navigation over web) and online forms created with PHPforms don't do things like actually browse my file structure or send emails when they're supposed to.

My company's in a tizzy, and I dunno enough about PHP under OS X (really PHP in general) to effectively troubleshoot.

Can anyone help? Drop me a message on Tribe and maybe I can pick someone's brain on here? :-\

*HELP!*

(And yet, phpicalendar works!)

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Why Use Mac OS X Server

2004-01-11T20:49:11Z

I constantly need to explain to folks why I use Mac OS X Server. I came across this page earlier today:

http://www.netcraft.com/survey/Reports/200401/graphs.html

It shows how Apache is just dominating the web server market.

The reason I use Mac OS X Server is because it integrates all my favorite open source services/utilities/whathaveyou. I don't have to spend my time compiling my latest version of Perl/Ruby/Apache/Postfix... whatever.

I know other vendors are doing it, but... and this is the bug but... they don't have the Mac OS X front-end. End of story.

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NetBoot?

2004-01-06T05:27:55Z

Just finished deploying NetBoot in a lab situation. 50 iMacs served by 2 xServes with the same image. 95% of the time everything is groovy, but I'm getting random hangs (at world, spinning gear, it varies... )

Anyone else putting NetBoot through it's paces?

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Best means of upgrading Jag Server to Panther Server...

2004-01-05T20:11:26Z

Hey all...I have a pretty highly customized install of Jag server running my company's XServe...anyone know if the "Upgrade Install" option is any better with the server OSs than it is with the vanilla variety...?

The last thing I need to do is spend an entire Saturday re-installing CommuniGate Pro, SpamAssassin, and much much more after finding things hosed after an attempted upgrade. Unfortunately, a 2-server solution wouldn't work. We only have the one.

Thanks!
-Sonya

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Jaguar vs Panther

2003-12-12T01:10:37Z

OK! So, here's a broad spectrum question: Is it worht my while to upgrade our two XServes to Panther Server, given that only two of us in the building (of 30) even have Panther on our laptops?

If so...why? What's better about Panther Server in terms of File Sharing, Email Server, and Web Service?

Thanks!

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Mac OS X Server's topics - tribe.net

backup solutions

Dock Crashes for Network Users

I can't find my way out of this one...

Tech Question: Ethernet Cables

disc not being read in imac g3 need help

Mirroring XRAIDS

multi platform

Anyone know Flash?

DHCP question

LDAP Connection Failure?

Darwin Streaming Server

Podcasting w/X Server

Opinions needed

Joining 10.3 Server to a Windowd domain

Help me, oh lords of Mac

Jobs as Mac Sys Admin...

email server software?

Web Server on Startup?

Wiki

Need a hedge fund/back office solution for Mac OSX

Small Hosting Companies?

vba script vs applescript

File Sharing for Windows???

OS X Server Panther

New to Mac OS X Server...

Non-Routable IP / Domain Name

Clustering?

*HOUSEKEEPING* PLEASE READ

A Caution

OSXS Panther upgrade broke my PHP pages!

Why Use Mac OS X Server

NetBoot?

Best means of upgrading Jag Server to Panther Server...

Jaguar vs Panther

HOUSEKEEPING PLEASE READ