Much has been made about the demise of FTP on OS X Server. Well, while it may be badly burned, it’s not dead yet. Let’s look at enabling FTP first on the server and then per share. Enable FTP on the Server The first thing to do on a server that you want to expose through FTP is enable tnftpd. To do so, open Workgroup Manager or Server and create a group that has user who you want to provide FTP services to. In this example we are going to assume a dedicated FTP server and open access to everyone, but feel free to swap out your group name for…
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Exporting Information From iPhone Configuration Utility
In a previous post I looked at automating iPhone and iPad deployment. There, we looked at the iPhone Configuration Utility. Now that Profile Manager is built into Mac OS X Server in Lion, and with the number of 3rd party MDM solutions on the market, many users of iPhone Configuration Utility are looking to extract information from it and move it into other places. Many of these places can import property lists. If you look at the file header for .mobileconfig and .deviceinfo files you’ll notice that they begin with the familiar: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"><dict> Given that .mobileconfig and .deviceinfo files…
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Lion Server: Using Profile Manager's Debug Mode
I’ve seen a lot of traffic about people troubleshooting problems with Mac OS X Server’s new Profile Manager service. One of the more useful things in troubleshooting anything (including Profile Manager in Lion) is the debug mode. It’s easy to turn on, just run the following command from any Lion Server with Profile Manager installed: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.ProfileManager debugMode 3 You will then get more information in the logs and be well armed to troubleshoot issues that arise in Mac OS X Server 10.7’s Profile Manager.