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    Dual G4 machine is the Devil

    Help!!! I have just bought a second hand Dual processor mac, it is a mirrored G4 1.25 Ghz machine with a small problem, I cannot install an OS. What I have tried so far: Installing Panther, Tiger and server 10.4 to see if I can get one of them to install. All bring up the same problem...
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    Problem with remote desktop connection

    I have been having an authentification problem with ARD. I have been using VNC but treated myself to a copy of ARD and I am very impressed with it. However a few days into using it I stated getting Authentification problems: NOTE:connecting to a machine running OSX server 10.4.3 from a...
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    My powermac G5 will not accept additiona memory

    I have recently purchased a new G5 Power mac Single 1.8 GHz processor with 4 x 128 meg memory sticks. I Have tried to upgrade the memory. I took out two of the 128 memory sticks and put two new 512 sticks in. Upon reboot I get two beeps (which does indicate incompatible memory). So I took...
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    Logitech quickcam messenger, are there drivers avalable.

    Are there Mac drivers avalable for the Logitech quickcam messenger that work? I have installed the drivers that came with the cam (version 8.0.1) but these do not work. It looks like this is a bit of a problematic camera for the Mac so if anyone knows where I can get a driver that works...
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    Setting up a Mac to authenticate with active directory?

    Yeah cool thanks for that,the mac name is all lower case so i know thats not the problem, good point though.
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    Setting up a Mac to authenticate with active directory?

    Ok,we have a Mac here at the office and my boss would lkike me to set it up so we can access a user acount via the active directory. Check list: One Mac...check One server...check all networked up....check Active directory domain address....check Active directory forrest...
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    Is there an issue connecting to an 0S9 server via tiger?

    I guess the title says it all... i went to a client today that have a few servers,one of them is an old G4 server running OS9.2.2 with some sort of server client, this is being used as a file server. Here is the problem,theers a lot of Macs in the building mainly old OS9 Macs that can...
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    Letting users through the firewall

    Im guessing this is one of thoses questions that are easy if you know how? I have a 10.4 server and I want to enable the firewall (which I have) I have gone to the settings in firewall and under active settings I have added ports 5900 and 5800 so I can VNC to the server. The users in...
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    alternative to VNC?

    I have a 1mB broadband line so im sure this isnt a problem as ther are only three machines in the workgroup and most of the time only two of them are on.
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    alternative to VNC?

    MMmm true. It is a bit of an odd one, i can connect to my other pcs in the same workgroup fine but it is almost like the VNC connection to the Mac server times out. I have a no IP client running on the server as it does not has a static ip address. I can be connected remotly to the...
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    alternative to VNC?

    Can anyone reccomend an alternative to VNC? I know there is apples own remote desktop connection but I was looking for an alternative that is free of charge like VNC. Any suggestions would be great as I connect to my server remotely via VNC but latley the connection has been poor,thought...
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    Can't get home dir to automount using ldap and afp

    I had exactly the same problem but sorted it by a lot of trial and error. I could not create home directorys!!!! you must make sure that AFP is enabled in server admin. Make sure that AFP is enabled on the users folder and that it can be shared as a home directory. make sure that you...
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    Alternative to remote desktop connection??

    Thank you for all of your advice. I now have OSX VNC installed on the sever and I have setup port forwardig on my router. Connection is great,thank you for all of your advice. PS interesting about the built in remote desktop feature in Tiger,will take a look at that later.
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    Alternative to remote desktop connection??

    Good afternoon. I have recently setup my first Mac server at home for training pursoses. Is there an alternative to remote desktop connection that I could use for my mac server, or is it just a case of setting up a VPN and connecting via remote desktop? Can I use remote desktop...
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    Skype problem

    Thats interesting.. Are there any techies out there that could confirm the Mac uses a non standard microphone Jack???
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    Skype problem

    Just installed skype on my new IMac G5 single 1.8 GHz machine. Eveything works fine but I cannot get the microphone to work? I have checked the settings in system preferances and mute is disabled,volume is turned right up. I only have two input options, one of them being digital but...
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    Services in dir admin have suddenly stopped.

    Running a Dual processor G4 1GHz server with OSX server Tiger 10.4.1 I have set the server up as an open directory server. All of a suden all the services have stopped !!!(all tabs have gone red and I have no option to click "start services"). I get an error message asing me to log out...
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