mac os x server

when I attempt to search for a file by name on our shared server nothing populates. I have tried checking the status of indexing using mdutil /Volumes/Blah\ Server -s but it is telling me "error: invalid path" what am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

I'm running a Tiger server for mail. With a around a couple dozen users. A while ago a users mailbox couldn't access mail via pop or imap. Both enabled on his account and the server. I thought that maybe it was because he had a few thousand e-mails in there, cleared a few and rebuilt his...

I have taken over maintaining an osx server with little experience in servers (I installed and run a ClearOS internet gateway at home & use limited functionality but I'm not a networking/server expert & have no formal training!). Some time ago we started having problems with the server (10.5...

situation is: 40 odd Minis on 10.11, MacOS Server running on 10.13 with 150 networked Home Folders on 2 external USB3 HDD drives. Gigabyte fibre network with Cisco gigabyte switches Before Xmas - all was well. Logins smooth and speedy, even with sixteen users logging in at the same time. Now...

Hey all. Is there any way to send notifications to all Mac users on the network? Mainly so that they all know when the servers will be down for maintenance. Any help is appreciated as I am new to mac os server. (Mac OS Server running on High Sierra) Thanks!

OSX Server 5.6.1 Server OS is 10.13.5 Clients are Sierra and High Sierra Goal is to use external hard drive, connected to OSX Server, as network Time Machine location for clients. On server, I've Shared both the external hard drive disk and the Backups folder inside of it, using File Sharing...

I inherited a Mac OS X 10.8 server that is now only used as a file server. I'd like to confirm some things. Within the Server Apps settings it has File Sharing, Contacts, DNS, Mail, and Software Update services on. We have enterprise DNS servers which I configured in the general network adapter...

Hey Folks, I am trying to install the Mac OS X Server 10.1.1 update on a G3 Server running 10.1 and it just will not go. On the installer the drives are grayed out. I've update the installer to like 1.1.4 and installed the security update (SecurityUpdate-2001-10-19.dmg.bin). But still nothing...

Hello guys, I am pretty new with Mac OS X and webmails, and i need some lights on how can i do the following idea. I have a hosted email server, where i have some email accounts, and i what to push and send emails through a webmail like RoundCube (i never use it before) with a MAC OS X Server...

Hi! I help a friend keep their Macs running in their office network. They have a Mac-mini they use as a database server and some iMacs connect to it, over the network, to access data, etc. They hired a vendor who needs access to the database on the database server machine. This vendor...

I just came into possession of two Mac G5's, one has a bad power supply, the other I was wanting to run as a file server, web client, and email server for some freelance design work I am going to be doing in the future. I am looking at getting Leopard Server since the G5 that works is the...

I have one guy in my office with a android, I need him on the company calendar. How do I get him setup to see the server? I tried looking on youtube and what not for some examples, most are geared towards support of that company stuff and little seams to apply to general calDav accounts.

I'm having trouble getting my routing to work properly. I have my server setup as my-company.com I have DNS on with the fallowing setup (I've replaced my actually domain with "my-company.com" Primary Zone: my-company.com my-company.com "Machine" my-company.com "Nameserver" Reverse Zone...

I've been using mac server for some time now with great success. Up until now I've been using just a few of the simple things. Contacts, Calendar, Messenger and the Website. I use the server as kind of a background service. Now I'm looking to move mail into the mix.... So far I've only been able...

Hi, I am planning on setting up a mac os x server, but I want to understand something about file sharing first. Lets say that I have two mac clients now, mac_a, mac_b, mac_c mac_a has the following users usr_1 uid=501 gid=501 usr_2 uid=1000 gid=1000 mac_b has the following users...

We are using Mac Server and Windows clients. As known the Apple’s OS X’s native netbios and SMB services are really buggy we find SMBUp. SMBUp installs Samba, which in turn replaces Apple’s OS X’s native netbios and SMB services. After that everything goes fine connectivity is become stable...

Hello! I administer an mac osx server 10.6 at an italian college. I have the following issue: When I add or delete a group to a user (using Workgroup Manager or dscl command line, it's the same), the effective permission application delayed for more time (one hour or more...) In the...

Hello, I'm a PC user who has inherited admin duties over 4 macs (10.5.8 and 10.6), all of which have 6 users rotating between them as needed. I need to create a "Work" folder in each mac that all users can read and write to. Any file in this folder must be writable by any user. I've heard this...

Hello all, I have a Synology NAS server that I would like to retire. At the same time, I would like to setup a home server for various tasks such as running virtual machines that I can RDP into. I am therefore considering a MacMini with max amount of RAM and an I7 processor and use this as...

Please forgive my ignorance. Where is the PPP server? Is it at my ISP or does it have something to do with the computer? The only way I have of connecting to the internet is slow motion dial up; connecting via a Zoom Mini Modem. I have gotten an error message three times tonight while trying to...