File Services are perhaps the most important aspect of any server because file servers are often the first server an organization purchases. There are a number of protocols built into OS X Mavericks Server dedicated to serving files, including AFP, SMB and WebDAV. These services, combined comprise the File Sharing service in OS X Mavericks Server (Server 3). File servers have shares. In OS X Mavericks Server we refer to these as Share Points. By default: File Sharing has some built-in Share Points that not all environments will require. Each of these shares is also served by AFP and SMB, something else you might not want (many purely Mac environments…
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CIDR Conversion Table
CIDR Conversion Table CIDR prefix length Dotted Decimal Netmask Hexidecimal Netmask Inverse Netmask Binary Number of Classfull Networks Number of Usable IPs /1 128.0.0.0 80 00 00 00 127.255.255.255 1000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 128 As 2,147,483,646 /2 192.0.0.0 C0 00 00 00 63.255.255.255 1100 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 64 As 1,073,741,822 /3 224.0.0.0 E0 00 00 00 31.255.255.255 1110 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 32 As 536,870,910 /4 240.0.0.0 F0 00 00 00 15.255.255.255 1111 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 16 As 268,435,454 /5 248.0.0.0 F8 00 00 00 7.255.255.255 1111 1000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 8…
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Managing Windows Server 2012 Shares From Powershell
SMB cmdlets come in two modules. Before you can really use these in powershell you first need to import them. These are called SmbShare and SmbWitness, so to import the modules: Import-Module SmbShare Import-Module SmbWitness Or for short: Import-Module Smb* Once the SMB modules are imported, we’ll start by looking at what shares you’ve got on your system using Get-SmbShare: Get-SmbShare Next, we can create a new share with the minimum two pieces of information required and adding who get’s FullAccess, which is not required: New-SmbShare -Name BAK -Path E:BAK -FullAccess krypted Then we can provide a little more information if we so choose. Here, I’m going to add a…
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Watchman Monitoring Sponsoring https://krypted.com/
I’d like to give a big thanks to Watchman Monitoring for becoming the second sponsor of krypted.com. I like the fact that thus far, I’ve managed to keep all sponsorship talks within the Mac Admin community and hope this is a trend I can continue as time goes on. I also like the fact that it’s all products that I believe in! Watchman provides an excellent service, and if you haven’t had a chance to check it out then I encourage you to do so!
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Viewing Mac App Store Purchases From The Command Line
As you may have noticed, we’ve been working on building some links between the App Store and patch management tools such as Casper, FileWave and Munki. We’ve been looking at policy-based management of apps as well. In this semi-new world of signing and stores and the such, there’s actually a good bit you can ascertain about an app both inside the app as well as inside metadata OS X keeps about the app. I’ve discussed signing (apps and packages) in the past, but let’s look at using some commands to help us out with some tasks. The first command is to determine some information about apps that are on the…
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25 College Team Names That Make Ya' Wonder
I love college football. Anyone who knows me, probably knows what I’m doing about this time on a Saturday. And while I hail from the SEC, went to Georgia and have always loved “old man style” football, I’ve also lived in Southern California and now in Minneapolis where I’ve gotten to enjoy Pac 12 and Big 10 football. Doing work at Big 12 and Big East schools has also led to me attending many a game in many a stadium. I’ve also always loved watching teams that just plain suck or teams that no one has ever heard of. They have more heart than an entire division of NFL teams…
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Creating Groups in Mountain Lion Server
There are four ways to create groups in Mountain Lion Server. The first is using the Server app, the second is using Workgroup Manager, the third is using the Users & Groups System Preference pane and the fourth is using the command line. In this article we will look at creating groups in the Server app. Once a server has been an Open Directory Master all user and group accounts created will be in the Local Network Group when created in Server app. Before that, all user and group objects are stored locally when created in Server app. Once promoted to an Open Directory server, local groups must be created…
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Um, where is the snow? It is almost December…
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I am confused. Why can't I fall asleep?
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My first feeble attempt at outdoor lights