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I am the tech at a school with 35 brand new emacs running tiger (10.4 - 10.4.4) Our server is running 10.3.9. Clients connect with manual ip config with Ldap/open directory. The only services running are AFP, DNS, NAT, OPEN DIRECTORY,PRINT AND WEB. We are having numerous problems and no one in the district has been able to fix it yet. I have used macs a long time as a graphic designer and fiddle around alot but I am new to servers. If any of you can help, I would greatly appreciate it.
Problem 1: Blue Screens
I have read a little bit about this one but havent found a real fix for it. Randomly at log out an emac will hang on the blue screen. I have just been force restarting them.
Problem 2: MS Word so slow starting
When a class comes in and logs in and loads word, it can take up to 20 minutes for everyones word to start up. If I allow small groups to log in at a time, it will take about 5 minutes. It usually hangs on the font menu optimization. I have gone into font book and resolved duplicates. removed the dofonts file, deleted the word font cache, repaired permissions but none of that seems to have made a difference. this is crippling our lab and really hope someone can enlighten me.
Problem 3: Emacs hanging on load screen at startup
I have had 4 emacs now freeze on startup on the progress bar. I have tried safe booting, starting from tiger disk and repairing disk and permissions. none seem to work. the only fix is to full restore from a master disk Image file i made
Problem 4: Hand in Folder for groups
In OS 9, groups were offered this fabulous hand-in folder, a great tool for teachers. Now in OS X, that is a little trickier. I created a new share point for a group folder in Workgroup Manager that was read and writable for everyone. Next i created a Hand-in folder and assigned the teacher as the owner and the group/everyone having write only. Unfortunately, when a student drops a file in there, there is a permission error and the file is saved there but 0kb. very frustrated about this as well. Are there fixes.
Problem 5: Font Conflicts and safari crazy fonts
On various users and computers, safari displays crazy fonts instead of the default or CSS set font. If i go into font book and resolve duplicates and clear the safari cache, it usually works but is a real pain. I suppose students have different fonts in there user font library that conflicts so what is the best way to manage this? move all of them to the system font library?
ERROR MESSAGES ON SERVER
When class logs in, this pops up for each user.
Mar 21 10:45:37 osxserver krb5kdc[356]: AS_REQ (7 etypes {18 17 16 23 1 3 2}) 142.33.144.239: NEEDED_PREAUTH: billsmith@XXXXXX.XXXX.SD35.BC.CA for krbtgt/XXXXXXXX.XXXX.SD35.BC.CA@XXXXXXXX.XXXX.SD35.BC.CA, Additional pre-authentication required
others:
AFP error log example
21/Mar/2006:09:35:17 -0800: MMap chainhead is NULL
DNS Log example
Mar 21 10:57:09.589 lame server resolving 'hell.capefeare.com' (in 'capefeare.com'?): 72.36.155.171#53
It also seems we have numerous hacking attempts but they seem to not get by password.
Let me know if you can help or require anymore info. Thanks so much.
Randy Friesen
Langley Meadows Community School
http://www.sd35.bc.ca/lm
I am the tech at a school with 35 brand new emacs running tiger (10.4 - 10.4.4) Our server is running 10.3.9. Clients connect with manual ip config with Ldap/open directory. The only services running are AFP, DNS, NAT, OPEN DIRECTORY,PRINT AND WEB. We are having numerous problems and no one in the district has been able to fix it yet. I have used macs a long time as a graphic designer and fiddle around alot but I am new to servers. If any of you can help, I would greatly appreciate it.
Problem 1: Blue Screens
I have read a little bit about this one but havent found a real fix for it. Randomly at log out an emac will hang on the blue screen. I have just been force restarting them.
Problem 2: MS Word so slow starting
When a class comes in and logs in and loads word, it can take up to 20 minutes for everyones word to start up. If I allow small groups to log in at a time, it will take about 5 minutes. It usually hangs on the font menu optimization. I have gone into font book and resolved duplicates. removed the dofonts file, deleted the word font cache, repaired permissions but none of that seems to have made a difference. this is crippling our lab and really hope someone can enlighten me.
Problem 3: Emacs hanging on load screen at startup
I have had 4 emacs now freeze on startup on the progress bar. I have tried safe booting, starting from tiger disk and repairing disk and permissions. none seem to work. the only fix is to full restore from a master disk Image file i made
Problem 4: Hand in Folder for groups
In OS 9, groups were offered this fabulous hand-in folder, a great tool for teachers. Now in OS X, that is a little trickier. I created a new share point for a group folder in Workgroup Manager that was read and writable for everyone. Next i created a Hand-in folder and assigned the teacher as the owner and the group/everyone having write only. Unfortunately, when a student drops a file in there, there is a permission error and the file is saved there but 0kb. very frustrated about this as well. Are there fixes.
Problem 5: Font Conflicts and safari crazy fonts
On various users and computers, safari displays crazy fonts instead of the default or CSS set font. If i go into font book and resolve duplicates and clear the safari cache, it usually works but is a real pain. I suppose students have different fonts in there user font library that conflicts so what is the best way to manage this? move all of them to the system font library?
ERROR MESSAGES ON SERVER
When class logs in, this pops up for each user.
Mar 21 10:45:37 osxserver krb5kdc[356]: AS_REQ (7 etypes {18 17 16 23 1 3 2}) 142.33.144.239: NEEDED_PREAUTH: billsmith@XXXXXX.XXXX.SD35.BC.CA for krbtgt/XXXXXXXX.XXXX.SD35.BC.CA@XXXXXXXX.XXXX.SD35.BC.CA, Additional pre-authentication required
others:
AFP error log example
21/Mar/2006:09:35:17 -0800: MMap chainhead is NULL
DNS Log example
Mar 21 10:57:09.589 lame server resolving 'hell.capefeare.com' (in 'capefeare.com'?): 72.36.155.171#53
It also seems we have numerous hacking attempts but they seem to not get by password.
Let me know if you can help or require anymore info. Thanks so much.
Randy Friesen
Langley Meadows Community School
http://www.sd35.bc.ca/lm
