Likewise Open 5.3 Supports Snow Leopard

Likewise 5.3 supports Snow Leopard at 32 or 64 bit! Likewise Open 5.3 is open source software that can be used to bind Mac OS X, Linux & Unix to Active Directory. Likewise Enterprise (which is not open source) starts with the Open client but allows leveraging Workgroup Manager or Active Directory Users & Computers [...]

Adding Recursion in named.conf

In DNS, recursion references the process where a name server will make DNS queries to other name servers on behalf of client systems. Most name servers are simply DNS clients that cache information for a specified amount of time. Recursion is disabled by default on most name servers. In Mac OS X recursion is enabled [...]

Posted on September 29, 2009 at 9:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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MacSysAdmin Videos

The videos for the MacSysAdmin conference are now up, along with sweet pictures of all the speakers wearing foam Snow Leopard hats: http://video.macsysadmin.se/Documentation2009/Documentation.html

Posted on September 25, 2009 at 9:55 am by admin · Permalink · One Comment
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10.6 Upgrade

If you’re planning or preparing for an upgrade to Snow Leopard then there is likely to still be a little software not yet ready. There is a nice little compatibility matrix for software here: http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/

Posted on September 23, 2009 at 4:30 pm by admin · Permalink · One Comment
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All 3 Snow Leopard Titles Now on Amazon

All 3 of the Snow Leopard titles I’m working on, editing or in one case done with for Apress are now posted to Amazon and can be purchased.

mcxrefresh article over on afp548

A short contribution I made to afp548 on the new mcxrefresh command in Snow Leopard. Check it out here.

Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server 10.6.1 Now Available

Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server 10.6.1 are now available for download. Listed fixes for Mac OS X Server include: reliability of services using Grand Central Dispatch duplicate serial number alerts on servers with multiple network interfaces But more importantly are a number of minor GUI changes that have been resolved. If you’re [...]

Posted on September 10, 2009 at 9:27 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Create Groups Using dscl

The directory services command line (dscl) command can be used to create a group. Here we’re going to use dscl to create a group called Local Admins (or ldadmins for short).  First up, create the group: dscl . create /Groups/ladmins Now give our ladmins group the full name by creating the name key: dscl . [...]

Snow Leopard & networksetup (802.1x + Locations)

One of the best new features of the Snow Leopard command line, for those of us who need to do automation at least, is the addition of a few new options in networksetup. That’s why I did a little write-up on the new options at afp548.com. Check it out here!

Ticket Viewer: What's in a Name Anyway?

Kerberos.app + Snow Leopard = Ticket Viewer. I’m not sure what the point of this is, but I’m guessing it will become clear some day. Possibly Apple plans on also integrating some other form of tickets? Curious, but easy to figure out quickly since the icon didn’t change…

Posted on September 1, 2009 at 3:00 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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