Pow is a Rack server for OS X. It’s quick and easy to use and lets you skip that whole update an Apache file, then edit /etc/hosts, ethane move a file, then run an app type of process. To get started with Pow, curl it down and pipe it to a shell, then provide the password when prompted to do so: odr:~ charlesedge$ curl get.pow.cx | sh % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 9039 100 9039 0 0 10995 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 10996 *** Installing Pow 0.5.0... *** Installing local configuration files... /Users/charlesedge/Library/LaunchAgents/cx.pow.powd.plist *** Installing system…
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Show Volumes On The OS X Desktop
I spent a lot of time on Windows a long time ago. And one of the things I got used to was having hard drives on the desktop. And I liked it. So when Apple took them off the desktop I started running these commands on new accounts only own systems. The other day when I gave them to someone, they said I should post them. So here goes… To show removable media (cards, etc): defaults write com.apple.finder ShowRemovableMediaOnDesktop -bool true To show external hard drives (USB, Thunderbolt, firewire, etc): defaults write com.apple.finder ShowExternalHardDrivesOnDesktop -bool true To show mounted servers (AFP, SMB, NFS, etc): defaults write com.apple.finder ShowMountedServersOnDesktop -bool true…
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Disable The Startup Sound In OS X
Sometimes you have to reboot on an airplane or with someone sleeping close by. When this happens, it helps if you’ve disabled the startup sound in OS X. To do so, run the following command to set nvram with an empty SystemAudioVolume: sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=” “
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Roundcube for OS X Server
The latest Roundcube installer for OS X Server is now available at http://topicdesk.com/downloads/roundcube. This update, which provides a pretty awesome WebMail interface to OS X Server’s Mail Service provides the following: One installer that supports all Mavericks and Yosemite Roundcube WebMail 1.0.3 installed as a WebApp Automatically Configured Plugins Roundcube CardDav: Server-based address books Roundcube Managesieve: Server-side mail filtering and vacation messages PHP and Roundcube Config automatically configured for a typical Mac installation sqllite database – we no longer use Postgres Integration with the Mail Service running on OS X Server
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MacVoices Podcast With Chuck Joiner About The New Take Control Of OS X Server Book!
Yay, podcasts! Chuck Joiner was kind enough to have me on MacVoices. We did a show, now available at http://www.macvoices.com/macvoices-14223-charles-edge-helps-take-control-os-x-server Or if you’d like to watch on YouTube or inline: http://youtu.be/AeccoRqIrgc
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My Take Control Of OS X Server Book Now Available!
Thanks to all the awesome work from Adam and Tanya Engst, Tidbits announced today that my Take Control of OS X Server is now available! To quote some of the Tidbits writeup: Some projects turn out to be harder than expected, and while Charles Edge’s “Take Control of OS X Server” was one of them, we’re extremely pleased to announce that the full 235-page book is now available in PDF, EPUB, and Mobipocket versions to help anyone in a home or small office environment looking to get started with Apple’s OS X Server. As you’ll likely remember, we published this book chapter by chapter for TidBITS members, finishing it in early…
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Startup Profiles
The profiles command in Yosemite (and Mavericks for that matter), can configure profiles to install at the next boot, rather than immediately. Use the -s to define a startup profile and take note that if it fails, the profile will attempt to install at each subsequent reboot until installed. To use the command, simply add a -s then the -F for the profile and the -f to automatically confirm, as follows (and I like to throw in a -v usually for good measure): profiles -s -F /Profiles/SuperAwesome.mobileconfig -f -v And that’s it. Nice and easy and you now have profiles that only activate when a computer is started up.
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Yosemite Server Guide/Page Live
A blog is a great way to communicate information. But pedagogy, yo… Blogs are not great ways to teach in a guided manner. But they can be. So with a little Table of Contents, or a Guide of sorts, you can easily communicate in a fashion similar to a book. And this makes the third annual OS X Server Guide that I’m publishing in this manner; the guides for Mavericks and Mountain Lion are still available. I doubt I’ll ever actually bother to take them down. I’ve been working on getting the annual guide up for a few weeks and while there are still some posts remaining, but it’s basically done (some articles…
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Upgrading To OS X Server (4.0) on Yosemite
Setting up OS X Server has never been easier. Neither has upgrading OS X Server. In this article, we’ll look at upgrading a Mac from OS X 10.8 or 10.9 running Server 2 or Server 3 to OS X 10.10 (Mavericks) running Server 4. The first thing you should do is clone your system. The second thing you should do is make sure you have a good backup. The third thing you should do is make sure you can swap back to the clone should you need to do so and that your data will remain functional on the backup. The fourth thing you should do is repeat all that…
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Yosemite Server SMB and Windows
A few people have hit me up about issues getting Windows machines to play nice with the SMB built into Yosemite Server and Windows. Basically, the authentication dialog keeps coming up even when a Mac can connect. So there are two potential issues that you might run into here. The first is that the authentication method is not supported. Here, you want to enable only the one(s) required. NTLMv2 should be enabled by default, so try ntlm: sudo serveradmin settings smb:ntlm auth = "yes" If that doesn’t work (older and by older I mean old as hell versions of Windows), try Lanman: sudo serveradmin settings smb:lanman auth = “yes" The second…