Basic Questions from Prospective Lion Server Switcher

I have five servers I am running right now using Windows 2003 Server and various 3rd party packages.     Several years ago I became a Mac fan, moved all of my client based stuff to Mac, and now want to start moving my server based equipment to the OSX platform.
I stopped by my local Apple Store, and they had a version of OSX Lion Server running on a MacMini, but couldn't seem to answer the most basic of questions because as their business people stated "We are not Server Certified" ... they recommended I talk to an outside consultant to get these basic questions answered which seems a little extreme.
So I'm hoping the group can help.
(1) I read through most of the Lion Server Advanced Administrative manual.    Lion server appears from the manual to do most of what I need.   However, when I tried doing some of the functions in the manual on the demo Lion Server at the Apple Store, many of the functions I wanted to do did not seemed to either be installed, or their were buttons missing in the Server App.     I do not know if this was a permission level problem, because the account I setup for myself had administrative rights.
(2) In the mail app, it only appeared you could setup one mail domain.    It appeared you could setup virtual domains and users through the user app, but not through the mail domain itself?
(3) I could not find any where to enable DNS services.    The manual seems pretty straight forward in turning on DNS, but the Lion Server I saw had no DNS services running, or any way to enable them?
(4) Same for mailman listserv type function ... manual seems to be straight forward on enabling under the mail server, but again, no signs of the settings or enabling under the mail service.
(5) Under the mail app, didn't find any way to setup alternative SMTP ports ( I allow now Port 26 besides the standard Port 25 and SSL ports for my users.) ... I find port 26 gets past most firewalls at hotels etc.      Didn't see any way to control SMTP authentification too.
(6) Under the Lion Server tech description, it talk about a built in web editor, saw nothing of the kind.
So did the apple store have a limited install or am I missing something that the lion server manual does not match the capabilities of lion server.
Love to get a straight answer before purchasing hardware to replace 5 present machines.
Thank you.
David

Thanks for quick response. Indeed, in hindsight, it appears that they had only installed the Server App, but not the Server Admin tools.
Unfortunately, I am not a system admin, but I played one on TV <grin>
All kidding aside ... I'm willing to learn, but would need most of the basics controlled through the GUI ... and then feel comfortable reading up and editting configuration files and running commands from the Terminal.
On this line, is there good documentation of this, or is this something that you know because you are familiar with Unix? ie something like the alternate port issue ... is this something in the GUI, or something I would have to edit via Terminal?
Just trying to make an informed decision before jumping platforms.
Thanks
David

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Hello:
I am new to Oracle coming in with a SQL server background. I wanted to create a stored procedure that returns a SELECT result set.
When I tried the following code:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE spTest
AS
BEGIN
SELECT
          Last_Name_C || ', ' || First_Name_C as Name_C, User_ID_C, Email_C, Phone_C
     FROM
          S_USER
     ORDER BY
          Name_C;
END;
I get an error message, "an INTO clause is expected in this SELECT statement"
How can I return the SELECT result set via a stored procedure?
Thanks.
Venki

SQL> create or replace function f return sys_refcursor as
2    c sys_refcursor;
3 begin
4    open c for select * from emp;
5    return c;
6 end;
7 /
Function created.
SQL> var c refcursor
SQL> exec :c := f
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> print c
EMPNO ENAME      JOB          MGR HIREDATE     SAL   COMM DEPTNO
7369 SMITH      CLERK       7902 17-DEC-80    800            20
7499 ALLEN      SALESMAN    7698 20-FEB-81   1600    300     30
7521 WARD       SALESMAN    7698 22-FEB-81   1250    500     30
7566 JONES      MANAGER     7839 02-APR-81   2975            20
7654 MARTIN     SALESMAN    7698 28-SEP-81   1250   1400     30
7698 BLAKE      MANAGER     7839 01-MAY-81   2850            30
7782 CLARK      MANAGER     7839 09-JUN-81   2450            10
7788 SCOTT      ANALYST     7566 09-DEC-82   3000            20
7839 KING       PRESIDENT        17-NOV-81   5000            10
7844 TURNER     SALESMAN    7698 08-SEP-81   1500      0     30
7876 ADAMS      CLERK       7788 12-JAN-83   1100            20
7900 JAMES      CLERK       7698 03-DEC-81    950            30
7902 FORD       ANALYST     7566 03-DEC-81   3000            20
7934 MILLER     CLERK       7782 23-JAN-82   1300            10
14 rows selected.
SQL> create or replace procedure p (p_c out sys_refcursor) as
2 begin
3    open p_c for select * from emp;
4 end;
5 /
Procedure created.
SQL> exec p(:c)
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> print c
EMPNO ENAME      JOB          MGR HIREDATE     SAL   COMM DEPTNO
7369 SMITH      CLERK       7902 17-DEC-80    800            20
7499 ALLEN      SALESMAN    7698 20-FEB-81   1600    300     30
7521 WARD       SALESMAN    7698 22-FEB-81   1250    500     30
7566 JONES      MANAGER     7839 02-APR-81   2975            20
7654 MARTIN     SALESMAN    7698 28-SEP-81   1250   1400     30
7698 BLAKE      MANAGER     7839 01-MAY-81   2850            30
7782 CLARK      MANAGER     7839 09-JUN-81   2450            10
7788 SCOTT      ANALYST     7566 09-DEC-82   3000            20
7839 KING       PRESIDENT        17-NOV-81   5000            10
7844 TURNER     SALESMAN    7698 08-SEP-81   1500      0     30
7876 ADAMS      CLERK       7788 12-JAN-83   1100            20
7900 JAMES      CLERK       7698 03-DEC-81    950            30
7902 FORD       ANALYST     7566 03-DEC-81   3000            20
7934 MILLER     CLERK       7782 23-JAN-82   1300            10
14 rows selected.
SQL>

How can I use LDAP searching from OSX Lion Server to Mozilla Thunderbird?

How can I use LDAP searching from OSX Lion Server to Mozilla Thunderbird? We have a super awesome contacts server that works great for our Mac users. About 30% of our company are on PCs, and I would like to use the Mozilla Thunderbird mail client for them. I see that in Thunderbird I can set up LDAP searching, and would like to have this feature point to our contacts server. I've tried several different settings, and looked all over the web, but could not find the proper way to configure this. Does anyone know if this can be done, or if not, would have a better suggestion? Thank you for your time!!

try double clicking keychain acces should launch and ask if you want to install login, system, System roots
A dialog box will launch asking where to install the cert since your configuring a vpn I would put the certificate it in system.

Smooth transition from Mountain Lion Server to Mavericks Server 3.0!!

After an new OS release that are always complaints about installation and configuration problems. First comers to using any new software tool provide valuable feedback we generally hope will help improve the new product. It's how things have worked since the first 6503 Apple II's and 8086 IBM PC's.
I've been using and upgrading PC's since THOSE DINOSAURS! And I can't remember EVER having an OS upgrade go as smoothly as my recent upgrade from Mountain Lion Server (OS X 10.8.5 w. Server 2.2.2) to Mavericks Server 3.0.
I chose to do a clean Mavericks install on a clean partition created on a 1 TB disk that was upgraded into my trusty MacBook. I used the DiskmakerX app to create a Mavericks installation USB drive. When the screen came up with the option to import users, programs & files (took a pass on email) from the Mountain Lion Server partition, I let it run overnight to transpose everything of value into the clean Mavericks installation.
The next morning the only program that wasn't PERFECTLY installed and configured on Mavericks was Server 2.2.2. I deleted it and bought/installed Server 3.0. After Server 3.0's setup ran that only thing I had to do manually was start Postgres! My domain setting, DNS, all my web applications that were set up on Mountain Lion Server were all GOOD TO GO again on Mavericks Server!
I'm disclosing this here, publicly because it was a BIG PAIN to install and deploy all my websites using Mountain Lion's server app. To say the easy transposition into Server 3.0 was an unexpected and pleasant surprise amounts to massive understatement.
Now I'm going to describe two small anomolies I've noticed in either Mavericks or Server 3.0 that other users might want to be on the lookout for. They're not fatal. But they might be "habringers" suggesting underlying problems in either the new OS or the new Server's internals.
The toolbar icon for TimeMachine doesn't "spin" when it backs up. It's not a big deal. But it's convenient to see the circle around the clock whirling so we know when TIme Machine is backing up.
Mavericks Server isn't reporting newly upgraded apps as available under the Updates Tab of the Server's Software Updates subsystem. It might be inconsequential. But with a new OS version it never hurts to let the developers know about the "little things" that don't apparently work.
Kudos to the Maverick's developers for releasing an OS X version that's THIS CLEAN. And hugs to Apple's management for making it a free download upgrade for developers!!!
Full disclosue: I don't now and never have worked for Apple. but I do own a few shares of Apple stock that we purchased many years ago at $14.00 / share. I'm not a big shareholder. But based on my recent seamless upgrades to Mavericks and iIOS 7, I'm a happy one who's not likely to sell any time soon.
If Apple can do for ALL THEIR HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PRODUCTS what they seem to have done for OS X and iOS, they've got at least a fighting chance to recover from their losses after their stock peaked at about $700.00 /share.
Keep up the good work!
Dr. Bob Blomeyer

After an new OS release that are always complaints about installation and configuration problems. First comers to using any new software tool provide valuable feedback we generally hope will help improve the new product. It's how things have worked since the first 6503 Apple II's and 8086 IBM PC's.
I've been using and upgrading PC's since THOSE DINOSAURS! And I can't remember EVER having an OS upgrade go as smoothly as my recent upgrade from Mountain Lion Server (OS X 10.8.5 w. Server 2.2.2) to Mavericks Server 3.0.
I chose to do a clean Mavericks install on a clean partition created on a 1 TB disk that was upgraded into my trusty MacBook. I used the DiskmakerX app to create a Mavericks installation USB drive. When the screen came up with the option to import users, programs & files (took a pass on email) from the Mountain Lion Server partition, I let it run overnight to transpose everything of value into the clean Mavericks installation.
The next morning the only program that wasn't PERFECTLY installed and configured on Mavericks was Server 2.2.2. I deleted it and bought/installed Server 3.0. After Server 3.0's setup ran that only thing I had to do manually was start Postgres! My domain setting, DNS, all my web applications that were set up on Mountain Lion Server were all GOOD TO GO again on Mavericks Server!
I'm disclosing this here, publicly because it was a BIG PAIN to install and deploy all my websites using Mountain Lion's server app. To say the easy transposition into Server 3.0 was an unexpected and pleasant surprise amounts to massive understatement.
Now I'm going to describe two small anomolies I've noticed in either Mavericks or Server 3.0 that other users might want to be on the lookout for. They're not fatal. But they might be "habringers" suggesting underlying problems in either the new OS or the new Server's internals.
The toolbar icon for TimeMachine doesn't "spin" when it backs up. It's not a big deal. But it's convenient to see the circle around the clock whirling so we know when TIme Machine is backing up.
Mavericks Server isn't reporting newly upgraded apps as available under the Updates Tab of the Server's Software Updates subsystem. It might be inconsequential. But with a new OS version it never hurts to let the developers know about the "little things" that don't apparently work.
Kudos to the Maverick's developers for releasing an OS X version that's THIS CLEAN. And hugs to Apple's management for making it a free download upgrade for developers!!!
Full disclosue: I don't now and never have worked for Apple. but I do own a few shares of Apple stock that we purchased many years ago at $14.00 / share. I'm not a big shareholder. But based on my recent seamless upgrades to Mavericks and iIOS 7, I'm a happy one who's not likely to sell any time soon.
If Apple can do for ALL THEIR HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PRODUCTS what they seem to have done for OS X and iOS, they've got at least a fighting chance to recover from their losses after their stock peaked at about $700.00 /share.
Keep up the good work!
Dr. Bob Blomeyer

Basic questions from a new mozaic owner

I have some very basic questions about how to use the new mozaic 2G mp3 player. I bought the Mozaic because it has a speaker and sleep timer, but I'm finding it to be much harder to use than other mp3 players that I have had (Ipod shuffle, clix etc). This may reflect my failure to look in the right place but I have to say the "help" section isn't much help.
Here goes:
. I download podcasts to listen to during my morning run. WMP provides an easy to find place in its program, "recently added," which allows the user to just work with those files. As near as I can tell, Creative makes you wade through all of your tracks. Is there some way to create a file to which "recently added" tracks, or specific tracks, can be dumped? How about automatic tagging of these added files?
2. I have several thousand pictures on this hard dri've. Apparently, the Mozaic Centrale
Is going to copy all of them, which strikes me as a waste of space. Is there a way to shut this function off? I couldn't care less if a single photo was added to the centrale program (or whatever it's called). Is it really going to duplicate all of the jpg files?
3. I have the Zen Stone plus speaker which has served me very well. I had similar problems working with whatever Zen was calling its media player and wound up using WMP instead. I"d like to take a run at using the dedicated Zen media player....
I apologize for the basic nature of these questions, but the answers weren't obvious to me from the materials I was able to locate.
gba

sineadholly wrote:
Problem with speaker. I read you need to do a firmware update to get the speaker option on your product's menu so i've completely updated it, but still no option to switch speaker on, and won't just come on when i unplug the headphones, any ideas?
what exactly is the model of your Mozaic? Is it EZ 00, EZ 300 or plane ZEN Mozaic?

Basic questions from techie thicko with 'new' G4

I've looked but can't find the answers to these basic questions.
My new (reconditioned) computer as below came with just the operating systems and something called 'Cloner' plus some Utilities.
A) What is the best way to switch between OSX and Classic?
(It defaults to X on start-up and I can get to X from Classic by re-starting pressing 'x'. If that's the right way to do it, what is the approved way of getting into Classic?)
B) I'm not sure (after reading about it!) what I can do with Cloner and how.
C) I have AppleWorks on OS9. Can I update this for OSX? Failing this, is there a Software Download that will give me a basic DTP facility until I can afford to buy an advanced programme? I also have Pagemaker 7 in Classic.
D) I have been transferring stuff to Classic from my iMac DV 9.2.2 with my card reader and this seems to work well. Anything to watch out for?
There's more but I can't impose on members' kindness too much!
For future reference, is it possible to post pictures on these boards and if so how please? I have Photoshop and hosting sites.
Sorry to be a pain but I really am an idiot about techie stuff.
Thanks for any help.

I'm not sure what Cloner does. It sounds as if it may clone the hard drive, a bit like Carbon Copy Cloner:
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
I'm wondering whether it was just used to put the operating systems and utilites onto the drive in the first place when they reconditioned the computer. Perhaps they use a 'master' drive and just clone it to the drives in the computers they're reconditioning, rather than installing everything separately and repeatedly.
I think version 6 of AppleWorks runs under both OS 9 and OS X natively. If you have an earlier version, I'm not sure whether it's a free downloadable upgrade or whether you have to pay for it.
I'm sure the card reader works fine, although you could network the two computers together with an ethernet cable and create a small network. With two computers you just need a crossover cable to create a crossover network:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106658
If you're thinking of keeping your iMac, that may be a better long term solution. You could then use the iMac as your OS 9 machine and the PowerMac as your OS X machine if you wanted to.

Photoshop CS6 can't save to server after upgrading to Mac OS Yosemite Server from Mac Lion Server

We recently upgraded our server from a Mac Pro 2008 with OS X Lion Server to a Mac Mini 2014 with LaCie 20TB 5Big Thunderbolt 2 RAID drive. Everything is working fine with the exception of Photoshop. It does it intermittently but once it happens it will continue to do so. We get message like "Can't save to disk because of disk error" and "Can't save file because of program error" . Sometime we are able to do a "save as" and save over it. Most of the time we have to "save as" with a different file name and then rename and recopy the file. We have check permission on all the file as well as the server HD has ignore ownership checked. Again only three things changed. 1) Sever hardware change from Mac Pro to Mac Mini. 2) Server software upgraded from 10.7 Lion to 10.10 Yosemite(both have the latest update). 3) Drive when from internal on Mac Pro to External Thunderbolt 2 LaCie drive. We have no problem with Illustrator or Indesign. Only Photoshop. Anyone with any suggestion is greatly appreciated.

Unfortunately you seem to be using Photoshop in a way that Adobe discourages, so you may not be getting a lot of helpful advice.
Networks, removable media | Photoshop | CS4 and later

Reverting from OS Lion Server to OS Lion

I run OS Lion Server on a Mac Mini, and everything is going relatively well.
I am contemplating using my current Mac Mini as a music server only and buying a new Mac Mini with Lion Server pre-installed.
If I go this route, I will want to "remove" OS X Lion Server from my current Mac Mini and "replace" it with OS X Lion.
Anybody knows how to proceed?
Regards,

Same issue with me. I am a new mac user, actually Mac Minii server is my first mac. I am not interested inthe server aspect but rather the pure Lion as I also plan to install bootcamp with windows 7. (Sorry but I am not ready for a full pc to mac migatrion). Being the only user of the mac mini does ot make sense to have the full server installed.
Please help !!! Idiot (yours trully) proof guide will be highly appreciated. Thanks

Performance issues home sharing with Apple TV2 from Mountain Lion Server

I have a Mac Mini which I have just upgraded to Mountain Lion Server from Snow Leopard Server.
I have noticed that the performance of Streaming a film using Home Sharing to an Apple TV2 has degraded compared to the Snow Leopard setup. In fact the film halts a number of times during play back which is not ideal.
I have tested the network between the 2 devices and cannot find a fault.
Has anyone come across this problem before.
Are there any diagnostic tools I can use to measure the home sharing streaming service to the AppleTV2 device.
Any help much appreciated

Well, I tried a few other things and one worked but again just the first time I tried connecting to the desktop PC with iTunes. I flashed my router with the latest update and the ATV2 could see the iTunes library and I was able to play media. Later in the day I was going to show off to my daughter that I had fixed it and, to my dismay, no go. I tried opening the suggested ports but no luck.
I then tried loading iTunes on a Win7 laptop and it works perfectly with the ATV2. Both the laptop and the ATV2 are connected to the router wirelessly while the Desktop is connected to the router by Ethernet. Not sure if this is part of the issue as it sounds like this didn't work for others. The only other difference between the laptop and desktop is that the desktop has Win7 SP1 loaded while the laptop does not; now I'm scarred to load it though I don't think that's the issue. All in all, a very vexing situation. Hopefully Apple comes up with a solution soon.

Sharing a Calendar from Mountain Lion server with Snow Leopard users on local network

Hello.
I have a new Mac Mini Server running Mountain Lion Server and I want to create a shared calender for a mix of Lion, Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard users on our local network. Does anyone have any info on how to do this? I have tried using the Server App and Calender Help within the applications, but the content isn't available. I have managed to create a Shared Calender from the Mini's Calendar App where I've added users and I can see a 'wireless' transmit icon to the right of the Calendar name - but I cant get any of the users' iCal or Calendar apps to recognise the Calendar on the local network. I've also created a Location in the Server App under Calendar and still can't see anything on the local network. Am I missing something really obvious?
Thanks in advance!

Sorry, I hadn't explained everything fully. I don't want to open up my VPN to friends and family. I do have the router assigning the NAS a fixed IP, so that when I connect over the VPN I can use the local IP address to connect, as you have mentioned.
What I would like is for my friends or family to connect to my server over AFP or SMB using the public IP of my network, which my router then forwards onto my server, and display the available sharepoints configured using Mountain Lion server. However, the NAS drive is not an available option this way as it has a separate IP to the server.
As the NAS alllows guest access, I also don't want to configure the router to forward a specific port to it, as this way it will be open to the internet. I wanted to try and use my server as an authentication point, with profiles set using Mountain Lion server, and limited to file sharing services only.
Hope this makes sense.

Some basic questions from a mac newbie

hi,
i have been using linux and windows all this while, and recently began using an apple too. have some simple questions here that i hope to get some answers for.
1. is there something similar to /etc/hosts in linux where i can add the IP address of a server? this is for me to use the 'ssh' command in the terminal
2. when i open up an application, say safari or chrome, i want the window to fill the entire screen automatically, instead of having to drag the bottom right of the window to fill the screen. how to configure that?
3. when i close an application by clicking on the 'x' at the top left, why is it that it still appears in the list when i press command+tab? to remove the application from the list, i have to right click on its icon on the dock, then click 'quit'. this is rather troublesome.
appreciate any help!

1. is there something similar to /etc/hosts in linux where i can add the IP address of a server? this is for me to use the 'ssh' command in the terminal
The /etc/hosts file is there, but the /etc/ folder is hidden. You can use the Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities/) to access it via Unix, or could enter "open /etc" in the Terminal to open that folder in the Finder.
However, I'm not sure how this relates to ssh... I have not needed to modify that file, yet I can ssh all I need to. Are you trying to connect to your new Mac via ssh, or connect to other machines from the Mac via ssh?
2. when i open up an application, say safari or chrome, i want the window to fill the entire screen automatically, instead of having to drag the bottom right of the window to fill the screen. how to configure that?
Just drag the window out to full-screen and the browser should remember and open new windows at that size in the future. There are also some utilities (one called "Right Zoom" IIRC?) that will make the zoom button (green + button) behave more like the Windows zoom button.
3. when i close an application by clicking on the 'x' at the top left, why is it that it still appears in the list when i press command+tab?
Applications shouldn't quit just because you close their last window, unless the application's entire user interface is contained within that window. That is the case with ALL Windows apps, since there's no global menu bar, but only in some Mac apps. This is something that always ticked me off big-time with Windows... there have been times when I carelessly closed a window I didn't need anymore, but wanted to keep using the app, and then had to wait for it to load again. That won't happen on the Mac.
If this bothers you, just use the key combination command-Q to quit apps.

Basic questions from a dummy

hi i have recently installed osx10.4.5. and have some problems any helpw ould be appreciated:
1 - i use entourage for email and contacts: it is extremely slow switching from email to calendar or to address book. any ideas why?
2 - my whole machine seems in creasingly slow, and i seem to have used up 45 of the 60GB on my hard drive. i suspect there is a lot of duplication. i already trashed several 1.5Gb abcksups of my Microsoft user data. any other ideas on how to reduce the amount of useless stuff on my machine and increase its speed. (or are the two related at all?)
3 - i'd like to synch my palm with entourage but invariably hit problems. does anyon e understand how isuync works ? can you piont me to some useful isntructions on how to sync - can i use applemail/address book/ical isntead of entourage?
thanks for any thoguhts on how to make my machine fast and smarter.
peter

Hi, Pete. Welcome to the Discussions.
By the numbers:
1 & 3: For these issues with Entourage, the best place to search or post for help is the Entourage group you can find on the Microsoft Mac Support - Newsgroups page. These are Google Groups with active participation from Entourage users, including a variety of expert users.
I don't mean to send you somewhere else, but I've found numerous answers there for folks with questions related to MS products. Accordingly, it has often proved to be the first, best place to look for answers to questions such as you are asking.
2: See my following FAQs:
- "Freeing Space on your Mac OS X startup disk."
- "Tuning Mac OS X Performance."
- "Problems from insufficient RAM and free hard disk space."
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X
Note: The information provided in the link(s) above is freely available. However, because I own The X Lab™, a commercial Web site to which some of these links point, the Apple Discussions Terms of Use require I include the following disclosure statement with this post:
I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.

Was the NTP server removed from Mountain Lion Server?

I can't find the settings in the Server app or information in the documentation. Is the NTP server gone?

I think I have figured this out for Lion so I imagine it is not much different in Mountian Lion.
/etc/ntp.conf on both clients and servers has a line indicating which time server the local machine is looking at.
On our server it points to time.apple.com. On our clients it points the the FQDN of our server.
On clients and servers the ntpd daemon appears to be running by default.
Server Admin had a button to enable the local NTP server. That is the only thing I cannot see for sure from the .conf files.
Possibly this is all running by default and we can just point each machine to the appropriate server.
Any other ideas?

MacMini - basic questions from an aspiring pc convert

Not having ever used a Mac i have some basic q's before i take the plunge and join the Apple world. I am considering purchase of a Mac Mini for the purpose of using connecting directly to the TV and streaming media from my NAS.
Currently have a QNAP NAS connected through the wireless router to my PC running XP, where i store videos, photos and music.
Q1: will the Mini be able to stream video/photo/music from my existing NAS drive (QNAP), given that i have setup and formatted the NAS from my PC? i.e. will the Mini be able to see and run the files from the NAS?
Q2: does the Mini have an optional acccessory 5.1 decoder if i wish to play a regular DVD and connect to a 5.1 home theater sound system?
Q3: any potential problems or issues that i should know about before i try to set this up.
Appreciate any help offerred.
/Fredrik

I use NAS in my home network system. My NAS is 2 bay- Raid 1 setting. I also set it up via Windows last year since the software came with the NAS only has Windows version (to be specific - XP and Vista 32 bit)
So far, I have no trouble to use it with Mac since they are all in the same network ID. My Power Mac, 2 mac mini, and mac book all can see and utilize it. That NAS is my main iTune and media server at home. - so read and write are fine.
The "format" for most of NAS in the market - is neither FAT nor NTFS. Actually, they use other - most likely Linux. That means - I can NOT remove those drives and stick into computer, as they can not be read via XP/Vista/OSX directly.
Did your NAS come with web-based capacity for the NAS?? If so, you can control the NAS via Mac too.
Regarding to you Q2 - which I have never tried.
Sam

Comments and questions from a new Entourage switcher

When Leopard came out, I decided to take the plunge and move from 7 years of Entourage-ing over to the whole Mail/Address Book/iCal/.mac combo.
It's been a challenge, and one I'm glad I'm making. I really see the future lies here, especially with all the great GTD tools (like OmniFocus) that are so well integrated into these Mac apps.
I have a bunch of things that I'd like to ask or comment on, that I've collected since the switch. I hope these don't sound like whining. More, it's really to stimulate conversation in these areas to find out if anyone has found workarounds, add-on utilities, or even if I'm not doing something right.
*1. Checking If They're Already In Address Book.* If I get an email from someone, I like to know if they're already in my Address Book. In Entourage, you'd right-click, select "Add to Address Book" and if they were already in there, a window would pop up, saying, "This already exists, would you like to add to it, or just open the contact". In Mail, there's no such checking, so clicking on "Add to Address Book" can end up duplicating and triplicating what's already there. In other words, I'm looking for a quick way to open up that person's contact info.
Oddly enough, sometimes a right-click on someone's email address, who is already in ones Address Book, will bring up an "Open in Address Book." However, it's extremely inconsistent. My own brother's emails don't work like that. But odd companies, whom I rarely get email from, will show it.
*3. No Categories.* This is the biggest missing piece for me. If I get an email from someone that treats me with familiarity, but I don't recognize them, there's no way to go into my address book and tell what relationship I have with that contact. Client? Acquaintance? Purchaser? Relative I only met once? This is because there seems to be no way to attach a Category to each contact. Once you have over 2000 contacts, it becomes difficult to remember what each person or company is there for (we have over 5200). Which product did they purchase? Or are they a vendor. Someone I met at a party? Ex girlfriend? There is the Mail Group function, but those act more like Smart folders and aren't attached to the actual contact, so when viewing the All Contacts, there's no way of telling who's who. Even if there were simply a way to color each contact, those colors could act as a category, and one could sort by them. This is my major concern right now with Mail over Entourage. Here's hoping someone creates a utility that does just this!
*4. No Easy Way to Copy Entire Address.* Every hour, we are copying addresses and pasting them into a customized DYMO label (that has our return address and company logo on it). There doesn't seem to be any way to grab the entire mailing address in one Copy. You can highlight/copy the address, street and zip, and paste that into, for instance, a Dymo label, but you have to go back and grab the name separately. The Print function has some very interesting ways to print (including to a plain default Dymo label), but since we have customized labels, we just need to copy the address ourselves.
*5. Search Function Blandness*. The search function could use more refinement. If you search for "Comcast," you logically get all of the contacts that have "comcast.com" in their email address (Further, if the word happens to be in the Notes field, it'll bring those up as well). But there should be a way where it gives precedent to the actual Comcast company contact—which the word "Comcast" in the company field—instead of being forced to scroll through hundreds of contacts to find the actual one I'm looking for.
*6. Auto Name Fill To Slow.* When entering names in an email name field, you can't go very fast, because Mail takes a couple of seconds or so to recognize the name you're typing. For instance, if I'm sending an email to Mark, and type Mar, Mail autofills the rest for "Mark Smith" but the spinning thingie is still spinning, and if I don't wait that extra second, and hit tab or Return, Mail just puts in an empty "Mar" without any email address. I have to wait until the spinning thingie stops before hitting tab or return. When entering 5 or 10 email addresses, this is a hassle. Often I find that even after the spinning thingie stops, and Mail looks like it has autofilled, if I click Tab or Return, the address often still didn't fill correctly. It only stopped at the 3 or 4 letters that I'd typed in. If I didn't catch the error, I think I've sent it, only to get an error message later on.
*7. iCal Alarm Window.* They forgot the lower right corner resize thing in the iCal Reminder window! And regardless of the number of alarms (I often have 20 or more), the green button is always grayed out. So if you have 20 or 30 iCal reminders, you can only view them one at a time in that small window, and have to use the up and down arrows. I'd like to be able to drag this window down so I can view all 20 at a time.
*8. Limited iChat Alarm Window Delay options.* If you want to delay (called "repeat" in iCal lingo) any to-do in the iCal Alarm window, you have options for 1 minute, 5, 15, and 30 minutes, 1 and 2 hours, 1 day and 1 week. It'd be great to if a hack were developed that allowed for other useful delays, such as "tomorrow morning" (so one can see everything all at once first thing in the morning), 2 days, 3 days, and 2 weeks. A "4 hours" would be handy as well, since that's like saying "bug me this afternoon."
Again, don't misinterpret this as whining, I'm digging the move and am totally committed to it. I just want to see if anyone has wondered about any of these, too, and has discovered a workaround (or a pref I'm not seeing!) or knows of a 3rd-party utility (or downright hack).
Thanks for any ideas on these.
Edit: corrected some misspellings...

Re: Categories - I too miss that and I've 'solved' it two different ways. First, I set up groups which helps me find someone who I know within a certain context. ie, I know I'm looking for John who is a student. I look in the student group for all the Johns. Second, I use the note entry to jot down things I want to remember about the person.

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