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    Trouble deleting "old" server in server admin

    What version of x-serve are you running? Different versions have different methods. in 10.5 (Leopard) the DNS server can be turned off in the admin tool. I assume you want to point to your ISP's DNS server - This could be done in your network settings in the Systems Preferences.
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    User Can Not Login At Server Location

    Not only check the permission of the directory, also check the permission of the share point. I don't remember about older systems, in 10.5 you set the permission of the shares in the "Server Admin" tool.
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    User Can Not Login At Server Location

    You might check the permissions of your sharepoints -- Specifically "/Users".
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    Strong AirPort signal but no internet

    What sort of failure is happening? Can you see other computers on your local network? Are you having DNS failures (unable to translate URLs to IP addresses)? Are you utilizing a host file (/etc/host) which may be hosed? Will things work when you are wired into the network? What do the error...
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    Vnc

    You need to download a VNC Client for your windows machine.
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    Upload Script Help Needed

    It may be easier to write an Applescript to do this, but if you want to write a shell script..I would create a script that check a change in the appropriate files then started the upload. Then enter an entry in your crontab file (check out the 'crontab -e') command and run the script every 5 or...
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    Script to notify if a computer shuts down

    BTW: I should not that the above script does a 'telnet xxx 80' instead of 'ping' because the server that runs the script has had the 'ping' command removed for 'security' reasons.
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    Script to notify if a computer shuts down

    Here is a script I use. I run it from cron every 10 minutes. This script pings all the domains/computers list in a text file called 'domain_list.txt' and if it fails sends a message to any email, or cell phone in the variable 'contact_list'. Good Luck. #!/usr/local/bin/bash...
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    VPN using IPSec and Linksys RV042

    I have NEVER been able to get VPN to work on a LinkSys Router. Apparently the routers talk VPN to each other, but no one else. I tried with a LinkSys BEFSX41 for a year or so. I finally setup VPN on my server in the local net and punched wholes in the firewall to route VPN traffic to the...
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    User Can Not Login At Server Location

    What is the client machine? OS?
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    User Can Not Login At Server Location

    Do to the Server admin tool. select the Server. Select "Settings". Select "Access". Select "Login window" . Make sure your users has access to it.
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    10.4 server for home server congifuration.

    TIA: You may want to start by subscribing for a month or two to Lynda.com (I have no relationship with them - I just used them to come up to speed with my xserve) (BTW - When you are done using them be sure to unsubscribe). To access your server from the net, you will need to open your router...
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