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Mac OS X Server: Does My Name and Host Name match?
Two utilities worth noting here, changeip and scutil. You can check if your name and hostname match using changeip. It will look at the DNS and look at the name your system has for itself and let you know if they match: changeip -checkhostname You can also use scutil to see what the hostname is: scutil –getHostName If you want to change the hostname: scutil –setHostName <new hostname> With the DNS, if the name server runs on the system you’re sitting at then you can edit the zone files on that system. Use dig to check whether the name matches the hostname. Think FQDN here btw, with Server…
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Mac OS X Server 10.5: Introduction To Wiki
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Leopard Server and wiki. It’s cool and it works. But when you’re first looking into it, it might seem a little confusing. So let’s do a simple walkthrough. Here we’re going to enable a wiki in advanced mode for a group called testgroup and we’re going to give a user called testadmin access to edit the wikis and create new ones. To get access to the wiki we’re going to assume a hostname of server.318.com. First, let’s go into Workgroup Manager and create a new group called testgroup. To do this, open Workgroup Manager, authenticate to Open Directory and click on the New Group…
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Mac OS X: Flushing the DNS Cache Resolver
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal So you need to empty your cache resolver, but you fire up your handylookupd but you’re getting a command not found error. What to do… Try dscacheutil, which let’s you do so very much more than lookupd. For example, using the -cachedump allows you to dump an overview of the cache contents. -cachedump has a slew of flags to get pretty granular with the output such as -entries and -buckets. -configurationallows you to access detailed information about your search policy. -statistics allows you to view detailed information on statistics of calls. Examples of using these commands: Emtpy the DNS Cache Resolver: dscacheutil -flushcache Dump cache with user entries: dscacheutil -cachedump -entries user Lookup all the users on a…
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Mac OS X Server 10.5: Mail Skins
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal The default “skin†of the WebMail server (SquirrelMail) in OS X server leaves a lot to be desired to some. So we thought that we would post some of the more popular skins/themes (or collections of themes) that we’ve been using so you can check them out: http://www.squirrelmail.org/themes.php http://www.nutsmail.com http://www.roundcube.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/squirreloutlook Happy skinning!
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Mac OS X Server 10.5: Customizing the iChat Server Welcome Message
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Customizing the welcome message to new users of your iChat server is a fairly simple task. For this, we’ll look into the jabber configuration because jabber is the Open Source package that iChat Server is built on. When you first setup jabber the /etc/jabber directory will be created. Inside this folder will be a file called jabber.xml. If you open the jabber xml file and look for the “welcome†tag then anything between the "welcome" and"/welcome" will be the information that is shown in a welcome screen when a new user signs onto the iChat server. Before you edit the /etc/jaber/jabber.xml file make sure to back it…
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Mac OS X Server 10.5: Auto-populating iChat Buddy Lists
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal If you want to enable the auto-population of buddy lists for users of your iChat server, use the following command: serveradmin settings jabber:enableAutoBuddy = no If you have a lot of users and this causes performance issues, consider disabling this feature again by using the following command: serveradmin settings jabber:enableAutoBuddy = yes
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Mac OS X Server 10.5: Managed Preferences Update
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal If you’re familiar with Managed Preferences in Tiger then you’re basically already familiar with Managed Preferences in Leopard Server. But there are some great new features that Apple has provided us with by popular demand. These include the following: Applications There are now more features to the Applications Managed Preference. You can allow or disallow applications by selecting them individually or a folder. This means that you can allow access to applications located in the /Applications folder but disallow all applications located in the /Applications/Utilities folder. There are also now controls for allowing specific widgets and disabling Front Row. Finder There are new options…
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Mac OS X Server 10.5: Advanced Mode
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal So you selected Advanced Setup during the wizard while you were installing Mac OS X Server and now you’re looking at this new Server Admin screen that you’ve never seen before. You see the server name but there are no services in the list. This is because Apple has gone the extra step to make Server Admin less confusing and more user friendly than ever before. When you click on the Settings icon at the top of the Server Admin screen you will see the tab for Services. Here, you can enable or disable any service by checking its box and clicking on the…
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Mac OS X Server 10.5: LDAP ACLs
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal In Leopard, Workgroup Manager supports rudimentary ACLs for the LDAP database. We’re all familiar with Access Control Lists by now. Especially in the Mac OS X Server community. However, we might not all be familiar with ACLs as they’re implemented in LDAP. But we should be, because LDAP is being used more and more as an address book, and with the new Directory application being shipped in Leopard it is conceivable that environments aren’t just going to use ACLs to secure LDAP but they’re also going to use them to allow users to self update their information in the directory. So in the interest…