mac os x server

I am new to OS X server and am using 10.5.8 on a dual G5 pro. I want to use the Mac as a file server for Windows and Mac clients. I have SMB enabled and have shared some folders. We use AD for authentication and I have joined the Mac as an AD member. I have granted my two AD test groups access...

Hello, I have a new Snow Leopard Server that I have successfully installed and joined to my Windows 2003 Active Directory. What I would now like to do is create shares on the mac server that Windows users and Mac users can access. I would like use the Active Directory accounts for permissions...

I am ready to install a 500 gb hard drive into my macbook but dont have the start up disk. I DO however have the startup disk for a macbook pro one year newer than mine. My book is an 07 running 10.5.1 with 2 gb of RAM and a 2ghz processor. THe question is will the SU disk for the pro install...

i"ve been stuck on this for years to say, I"m trying to get my power mac g4 net boot my original Clamshell Ibook and my three Rev.B imacs to net boot. My Rev.d Imac g3 and my Firewire Clam will net boot off my server. I"m trying to make the imacs netboot as I have no hard drive...

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hi, When ever i try to run either a c or a c++ program on mac os x server v10.6.7 using a admin (non root) account i get the following error: [Switching to process 1387] shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Permission denied arch...

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I have a mac and it says i have no new software updates. But when i try to play an online game that requires java it says my java is not up to date. How do i fix this so i can play my game?

I have been repairing permissions via Disk Utility for the past 8 yrs....... well not CONSTANTLY! LOL When I had my old iBook G4 and running Panther I was told to repair permissions periodically and ESPECIALLY before and after installing software, so that's what I've been doing. NOW........ I...

Wow it's been ages since I've been here! I hope you are all doing well. My baby (2004 iBook G4 passed away 3 days ago - motherboard failure). After using it pretty much nonstop for almost 8 years it was the BEST computer I ever had. The motherboard died without warning, very fast (well at least...

I have an interesting problem going on right now. We have about 12 users on an Xserve running Leopard Server. Last week, users began having issues where the Finder would hang when they'd try to open a local volume on their Macs. It appears that it's a Directory Services issue, since...

I'm trying to set up a Mac Mini Server running Snow Leopard with an encrypted filesystem to store user files. Since it's acting as a multi-user server the encrypted filesystem has to support ownership. It also has to be encrypted by default (i.e. it can't rely on the users to remember to encrypt...

hi folks, I recently setup Xgrid on Snow Leopard. Seemed to work fine, I could see my macbook and my gf's macbook in the Agents section of Xgrid Admin. My macbook was the controller (i removed it from being an agent). Problem is when I went to create a job. I started simple, so that was...

A little pointing in the right direction perhaps? Our school runs a Mac OSX network using a new 10.6.7 server and a mix of 10.6 and 10.4 clients. All the newer systems, running 10.6.7, connect, authenticate and run their applications without any problems. The older systems, PowerPC, running...

I'm currently working on deploying a Snow Leopard Server-based setup for a university student-run television station, using a Mac mini Server. Because our university's own networking infrastructure is somewhat wonky and restrictive, I have recently networked our station's six other computers and...

I just bought a new Mac Server with OSX server 10.6 pre installed. This was bought for a development project on JBOSS. I know that 10.4.3 (the last osx server version that I have worked with) has JBOSS preinstalled and could be simply enabled under "application server" in the server manager...

Hi all! I'm using an older G5 running MacOSX 10.5.8 (not 10.5.8 server) as a fileserver. My filesharing process is as follows: Through the accounts control panel, I (a) create "sharing only" users, and then (b) include them in, say, the "DESIGN" group. In the sharing control panel, via...

Hi All, I'm running iCAL Server in our small office of 1 Intel Mac and 1 Macbook Pro both networked to a MacPro Server running OSX 10.5.8. All works fine as both have iCAL set up as CalDAV accounts. I'm trying to access our server remotely from home with the same Macbook Pro running 10.5.8...

Hi, We have a Windows CA that we want mac clients to be part of. We need to push out computer certificates. Does anyone know it if possible to automatic enroll Computer Certificates from a Windows CA to a mac client? Anyone have any good documentation, or 3 party programs that solves this...

I recently came into possession of a Mac Pro and have loaded a copy of Mac OS X Server 10.6.6 onto it. The primary purpose of this system is to be an AST and imaging server, but also probably a workstation. I've gone and set up the NetBoot server, and created a bunch of netinstall images of...