An augmented version of OS X Lion intended to modify the OS for serving content rather than acting as a workstation for one user. OS X Lion Server is the first version of server that installs over OS X rather than being a separate installation. It also is the first version distributed via a Mac App ...
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Lion server DNS problem with .private
I have just installed a lion server on my home network. I want to use it as a .private. Domain. I have implemented the VPN connection for external users via port fwd on my apple time machine router. ...
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OS/X Server + Airport Extreme = daily crash
I have a 4th generation Airport Extreme acting as the main interface between my network and the internet. I recently installed OS/X Server on one of my machines on the network, during that install ...
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Updating and migrating a Mac OSX 10.6.8 server to a new Mac OSX 10.7 server
There is no good instruction on the internet on how to upgrade and migrate a Mac OSX 10.6.8 server to a new Mac OSX 10.7 server (not just updating the 10.6.8, but also migrating). For my employer, I ...
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In OS X Server.app, what's the number in the app icon?
I have Server.app on 10.7, and when I start it, I get the neverending beachball, and in the Dock, the Server.app's icon has a red number in it, which is continuously increasing.
What's the number ...
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Lion 10.7.5 Server Profile Manager Groups Problem
On our Lion 10.7.5 Server we use Profile Manager to manage our iPads on campus. I'm trying to clean up and make this server easier to manage. The part I am unable to figure out is that in Profile ...
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How do I share files with users based on Apple ID?
How do I setup file sharing across multiple macs, such that I can share by connecting with my Apple ID, as opposed to a username/password?
I've searched the net for documentation on doing this, and ...
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Configure ipfw to filter by ip range
I am a Linux user and very new to OSX. I have an OSX 10.7.5 "Lion" server that I am configuring as a webserver. I only have shell access.
I am tryin to configure the firewall, but ipfw is quite ...
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How to access a symlink pointing to a place outside the share?
I have a share on Lion Server, and a symlink pointing to a directory outside the share. The symlink is working properly when user is logged into the machine via ssh (so permissions are fine), but when ...
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Why would Chrome open two tabs when clicking a link from OS X Wiki Server?
In Wiki Server 4 on OS X Server every link now opens twice: two tabs with the same target page.
So when I click on something in a wiki page, I have duplicate tabs of the same page opened. This is ...
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dspluginhelperd error: DNS servers not configured properly
I get the following error message all the time. What is it? I have only found one similar instance on Experts Exchange without a solution to it. It seems it has something to do with AdmitMAC. The ...
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Can Tiger clients bind to a (Mountain) Lion Open Directory Server?
I'm working with a new client that has a number of PPC machines running 10.4 that are currently connected to an Xserve running 10.4 server.
Due to cost and compatibility issues, they're unable, at ...
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List of connected users
Sometimes, when need restart my Lion server, it warns me about the "connected users".
How is possible to show who is connected?
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How can one determine which user deleted a shared file on OS X Mountain Lion Server
My girlfriend is a lab technician at a small pharmaceutical startup. She created a very important Excel file and placed it in a shared folder on a server that the "IT" guy set up. The server runs ...
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10.7 Server, access.log hanging around
I am running 10.7 server (10.7.5). Console.app shows access.log files going way back to July. When will these start getting deleted?
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How to stop logging applepushservicedm no such record for push.apple.com?
The system.log contains:
applepushserviced[408]: : Stream error occurred for : Error Domain=APSTCPStreamErrorDomain Code=-65554 "DNSServiceQueryRecord() returned no such record for push.apple.com" ...
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How to create user only for wiki?
Does anyone know how I would create a user, maybe by email address, that would only be able to access a specific wiki on lion server?
I'm trying to allow access for clients (not OS X clients) that ...
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How to enable TCP/IP for Postgres on OS X 10.7 Server?
The default configuration in /var/pgsql/postgresql.conf says that listen_addresses defaults to localhost, but it doesn't let me connect over port 5432. Connecting (as root, using sudo) over a Unix ...
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Webmail doesn't work on Mac OS X Lion Server
I am trying to enable webmail for my Mac OS X Lion Server. I have enable both the Web and Mail services in the Server application, and have checked the box for WebMail under the Mail service.
However ...
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Can't open folder after creating share point on Lion Server
I think somehow Server.app screwed up my ~/Downloads folder after I tried to share it over the network and fudged with permissions and now I can't open it at all.
The weird thing is the folder is ...
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Stopping ACL inheritance from the command line in OS X Lion?
With the following folder structure on a file share:
- Department (directory)
+ User1 (directory)
+ User2 (directory)
+ User3 (directory)
Whenever I add an ACE to the Department directory, ...
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Unable to to use screen sharing to connect to OS X Lion Server, but SSH and other admin tools work
My mac mini with OS X Lion Server 10.7.4 is running headless in a data center so its not physically accessible. As administrator, I can connect to the server using SSH and other administration tools, ...
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moved house using all same equipment but domain to sever no longer works
just moved house but i can no longer connect to my home lion server via a domain. I've updated the IP in its DNS settings(days ago) and i can connect to it using the actual IP address but not the ...
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How can I administer my Lion Server from a Mountain Lion client
I have a Mac OS X Lion (10.7) server, and I would like to administer it remotely from a client running Mountain Lion non-server (10.8).
I naively assumed that I could install the freely downloaded ...
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How to preserve DHCP server settings when migrating from Lion Server to Mountain Lion Server?
I understand that DHCP server features will be "removed" from OS X Server with Mountain Lion and that there will be no way to manage these using the only remaining app for managing server features ...
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Can OS X be configured to only allow administrator users access to shutdown tools?
Setting aside pushing a physical power button, can I prevent non-administrator users from initiating a software shutdown?
In Mac OS X Lion all users are allowed to shut down the workstation. How do I ...
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What is a neat way to delete a stale amavisd pid_file on first boot after panic or power failure?
Lion Mail Server component postfix/smtp 100% reproducible blocks inbound smtp mail delivery on first boot after a panic or power failure.
Error messages from mail.log are like:
postfix/smtp[45785]: ...
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Accessing ~/Documents on Lion server through the web server
I currently have the server active on a static ip. Upon logging on you are met with
What I need to be able to do is access certain folders on the mac via the web front end (as shown below). There is ...
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Location of OSX Lion Mail Server sent mail
I had to restore a mac mini server I use for web and mail hosting. Since the restore was due to a software problem, I had to do from scratch instead of recovering from a disk clone. I copied from the ...
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Is it possible to edit the web pages in the Profile Manager user portal?
When setting up Profile Manager in Lion Server, there are a few web pages that are generated for web management of both devices and profiles. Is it possible to edit these pages in any way? I am just ...
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How to login to a network account on a MacBook without network?
I currently have a MacBook with Lion (fully updated), using the network account from a Lion Server (also fully updates) and I'm able to login to the network account just fine.
However, when I'm ...
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Export OS X Lion Blog / Wiki
We have a blog on OS X Lion Server with about 750 Entries and would like to export them in order to migrate to a different platform (Confluence).
Although I found a solution to export a Snow Leopard ...
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How to fix hanging Server Admin, log shows servermgrd error in getAndLockContext: flock(servermgr_info) FATAL time out
On a 10.7.4 Lion Server installation the Server Admin.app fails to start correctly. The window is drawn and the last known server and its services are displayed, but a spinning wheel keeps spinning on ...
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Using Apple Xserve Xeon Nehalem 2.26 “Quad Core” as a regular computer?
I don't know much about servers so I figured that this would be the best place to find out more about them. I have a friend who has 3 Apple Xserves with Xeon Nehalem 2.26 quad core processors. So my ...
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How to limit search only to file name instead the content of files? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Searching by file name (as opposed to name and contents) in Lion
I have a "server" with OS X Lion and a shared hard disk, and some clients with various version of OS X ...
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Lion Server: Send remote lock from outside LAN
I've setup the profile manager and locking a laptop works great while on the same LAN as the Lion server but if I'm outside the office it will never get the remote lock request. The Lion server is ...
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Server Admin: Multiple mail domains?
I've got a co.uk domain set up in Server Admin on an OS X Lion server for mail - it's all running fine. I'd like to also set up a .com domain to run through the same mail server. Is this possible? If ...
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Lion server - networked logins?
I've setup an OS X Lion server at the office I work at, and would like to set it up so all the other Mac's in the office have to login when they want to go on their Mac and it connects to their user ...
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Lost username and password to new Mac
Got Mac mini 2011 Lion Server today. Fitted extra RAM. Started up fine. Put in first bits of info. Then it does the restart and duh! Didn't write down user name and password. Did connect to internet ...
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Lion Server with Profile Manager
I setup a few profiles in the profile manager and when I remove them from the profile they still seem to be applied on the clients. Like to test around I made a change to the dock size and then ...
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Tracking down frequent (every 20 seconds) SCSI hard disk drive access in 10.7
In a Lion Server (10.7.3 and 10.7.4 tried) system with multiple drives attached to an HPT SATA controller, there is some process that keeps accessing the hard disk drives exactly every 20 seconds. As ...
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Server balks at reading the web settings
I have a lightly used server that no longer will show me the settings for Web services in the server app.
I see the progress spinner when selecting "web" from the list of services - but after a ...
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Migrating Linux/cyrrus IMAP into Lion server dovecot
We changing our internal infrastructure and replacing old Linux server with an OS X Lion server. One crucial thing is email - need migrate it without interruption.
Currently we have Linux/Cyrrus, with ...
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Getting notified when someone logs into a server using SSH or Remote Desktop
I have a mac mini server running OS X Lion Server 10.7.3. It pretty much runs unattended without problems. However, the server is under constant "attack" according to the logs. The firewall and ...
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How to setup FTP server in Mac OS X Lion Server?
I found that there isn't any FTP options in Lion Server. How can I setup it up? I would like to restrict .....
Which user can login with FTP server?
Which folder can permitted user access?
I found ...
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Disable Kerberos / Single Sign-on
We have a Mac mini running OS X 10.7 Server which has a number of shared folders/drives using AFP. We have a user account called fcp setup as sharing only which coworkers use to access the shared ...
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Why do our iDevices give a page not found error when trying to connect to profile manager website?
I want to know if anyone have also encountered this. We can connect to Profile Manager using one of our iPads (server.website.com/mydevices), but we can't connect using the rest of the iDevices we ...
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Internal IMAP server - Lion behind firewall
I have the following (already given) scenario:
The primary question is - how to setup IMAP and SMTP server on the Lion for the "mydomain.com". Lion suggesting to use the ".private" domain for the ...
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Using a Mac Mini as a central photo repository
Is it possible to setup a mac mini as a central photo repository and have all the tagging and extra info follow to the other computers on the network? Or would each computer have to access iPhoto on ...
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Is it possible to use Remote Desktop to control a Mac Lion Server without monitor and keyboard attached?
I never used Remote Desktop for Mac OSX so before buying the software I would like to know if I can fully control my Mac Mini with Lion Server installed without any keyboard or monitor attached.
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How to determine where mysterious users on OS X Lion Server are coming from?
A while back I installed OS X Lion Server and migrated some data across from Snow Leopard Server. When I accessed the server using "Server Admin" and to my shock noticed that 5 accounts (displayed in ...
