Evaluating OS X Lion Server
Hi everyone,
I am new to OS X Lion and plan to buy that soon.
Few questions:-
a) Will there be a mountain lion server version? should i wait for that? when is the release?
b) I have few iMac, macbook pro mostly on lion. 1 macbook on snow leopard and maybe will buy few new ones with mountain lion. Can I manage all these computers in my network?
c) regarding the open directory, can it work with juniper SSL VPN or similar vpn? I spoke to them recently and they recommend me to have something similar to active directory. But we are on mac based, not windows.
d) regarding the open directory, is that something similar like setting up a domain controller and users in active directory. So my user will have a domain login and require to use that to login to their macs. Does it work this way?
e) can the profile manager manage non iphone like android or windows phone?
f) i notice the VPN feature of the os x lion server. can that do similar to juniper ssl vpn? I am thinking not to buy juniper. I don't have a big workforce, 15 for now. Even we expand will be 30 employees in 2 years time.
g) the mail feature, is that a mail server which I can setup for my employees to use?
Any help from this community? Thanks.
a) Will there be a mountain lion server version? should i wait for that? when is the release?
Presumably. Apple haven't specifically announced it, but there's no reason to expect there won't be a Server version.
As for release, Mountain Lion is scheduled for 'July'. No more specific dates have been announced.
b) I have few iMac, macbook pro mostly on lion. 1 macbook on snow leopard and maybe will buy few new ones with mountain lion. Can I manage all these computers in my network?
Define 'manage', please. That term means different things to different people.
c) regarding the open directory, can it work with juniper SSL VPN or similar vpn? I spoke to them recently and they recommend me to have something similar to active directory. But we are on mac based, not windows.
The Juniper SSL VPN will work with most LDAP-based directory servers, including Open Directory.
d) regarding the open directory, is that something similar like setting up a domain controller and users in active directory. So my user will have a domain login and require to use that to login to their macs. Does it work this way?
Yes. For most purposes, Open Directory and Active Directory are very similar - a central directory of user and domain-based data.
e) can the profile manager manage non iphone like android or windows phone?
No
f) i notice the VPN feature of the os x lion server. can that do similar to juniper ssl vpn?
The Juniper SSL VPN and Mac OS X's VPN server provide two distinct mechanisms to provide VPN solutions.
The SSL VPN tunnels everything over a HTTPS/SSL connection. This makes it easy to get through firewalls, but requires a Java process running on the client to provide network-level services, which means it might not be an option for most mobile platforms.
You can configure the Juniper VPN to provide certain services (e.g. specific web sites or file shares) without that Java agent, but you'll need to determine what resources you're trying to make available.
The Mac OS X VPN server, on the other hand, supports L2TP and PPTP protocols which provide a network-level connection from the client to the server. This means that it will work with any protocol/service, but requires a little more setup. The plus side is that most mobile platforms (including iOS and Android) support this kind of VPN connection, so mobile users can connect to your network.
Ultimately, you'll need to decide which one fits your users and needs best.
g) the mail feature, is that a mail server which I can setup for my employees to use?
Well, it's a mail server that people can use, whether or not you can set it up depends entirely on your technical abilities
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DVD>Disk Utility>Erase Disk [or Recovery Partition>Disk Utility>Erase Partition]
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Reboot, hopefully Lion install kicks in
Update, update, update Lion (NOT Lion Server yet) until no more updates
System Preferences>Network>Static IP on the LAN (say 10.0.1.2) and Computer name ("server" is a good standbye)
Terminal>$ sudo scutil --set HostName server.domain.com
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System Prefs>Network>Advanced>Set your DNS server to 127.0.0.1
A few DNS set-up steps and these most important steps:
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Firewall
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SSH
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PermitRootLogin no
PasswordAuthentication no
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client$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 -C client_name
[Securely copy ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub from client to server.]
server$ cat id_rsa.pub > ~/.ssh/known_hosts
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$ diff denyhosts.cfg-dist denyhosts.cfg
12c12
< SECURE_LOG = /var/log/secure
> #SECURE_LOG = /var/log/secure
22a23
> SECURE_LOG = /var/log/secure.log
34c35
< HOSTS_DENY = /etc/hosts.deny
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40a42,44
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219c225
< ADMIN_EMAIL =
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286c292
< #SYSLOG_REPORT=YES
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Network Accounts
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2011-12-12 15:05:52.425 EST - Module: SystemCache - Misconfiguration detected in hash 'Kerberos':
User 'uname' (/LDAPv3/127.0.0.1) - ID 1031 - UUID 98B4DF30-09CF-42F1-6C31-9D55FE4A0812 - SID S-0-8-83-8930552043-0845248631-7065481045-9092
Oh well.
Email
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root: myname
admin: myname
sysadmin: myname
certadmin: myname
webmaster: myname
my_alternate: myname
Then run "sudo newaliases". If your ISP is Comcast or some other large provider, you probably must proxy your outgoing mail through their SMTP servers to avoid being blocked as a spammer (a lot of SMTP servers will block email from Comcast/whatever IP addresses that isn't sent by Comcast). Use Server.app>Mail to enter your account information. Even then, the Lion Server default setup may fail using this proxy. I had to do this with the file /private/etc/postfix/main.cf:
cd /etc/postfix
sudo cp ./main.cf ./main.cf.no_smtp_sasl_security_options
sudo echo 'smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous' >> ./main.cf
sudo serveradmin stop mail
sudo serveradmin start mail
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If you already installed the server's Trust Certificate as described above (and opened up the correct ports), email to your account should be pushed out to all clients.
iCal Server
Server.app>Calendar>Turn ON and Allow Email Invitations, Edit... . Whatever you do, do NOT enter your own email account information in this GUI. You must enter the account information for local user com.apple.calendarserver, and the password for this account, which is stored in the System keychain: Keychain Access>System> Item com.apple.servermgr_calendar. Double-click and Show Password, copy and paste into Server.app dialog. This is all described in depth here. If you enter your own account information here (DO NOT!), the iCal Server will delete all Emails in your Inbox just as soon as it reads them, exactly like it works for user com.apple.calendarserver. Believe me, you don't want to discover this "feature", which I expect will be more tightly controlled in some future update.
Web
The functionality of Server.app's Web management is pretty limited and awful, but a few changes to the file /etc/apache2/httpd.conf will give you a pretty capable and flexible web server, just one that you must manage by hand. Here's a diff for httpd.conf:
$ diff httpd.conf.default httpd.conf
95c95
< #LoadModule ssl_module libexec/apache2/mod_ssl.so
> LoadModule ssl_module libexec/apache2/mod_ssl.so
111c111
< #LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
> LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
139,140c139,140
< #LoadModule auth_digest_apple_module libexec/apache2/mod_auth_digest_apple.so
< #LoadModule encoding_module libexec/apache2/mod_encoding.so
> LoadModule auth_digest_apple_module libexec/apache2/mod_auth_digest_apple.so
> LoadModule encoding_module libexec/apache2/mod_encoding.so
146c146
< #LoadModule xsendfile_module libexec/apache2/mod_xsendfile.so
> LoadModule xsendfile_module libexec/apache2/mod_xsendfile.so
177c177
< ServerAdmin [email protected]
> ServerAdmin [email protected]
186c186
< #ServerName www.example.com:80
> ServerName domain.com:443
677a678,680
> # Server-specific configuration
> # sudo apachectl -D WEBSERVICE_ON -D MACOSXSERVER -k restart
> Include /etc/apache2/mydomain/*.conf
I did "sudo mkdir /etc/apache2/mydomain" and add specific config files for various web pages to host. For example, here's a config file that will host the entire contents of an EyeTV DVR, all password controlled with htdigest ("htdigest ~uname/.htdigest EyeTV uname"). Browsing to https://server.domain.com/eyetv points to /Users/uname/Sites/EyeTV, in which there's an index.php script that can read and display the EyeTV archive at https://server.domain.com/eyetv_archive. If you want Apache username accounts with twiddles as in https://server.domain.com/~uname, specify "UserDir Sites" in the configuration file.
Alias /eyetv /Users/uname/Sites/EyeTV
<Directory "/Users/uname/Sites/EyeTV">
AuthType Digest
AuthName "EyeTV"
AuthUserFile /Users/uname/.htdigest
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
Require user uname
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Alias /eyetv_archive "/Volumes/Macintosh HD2/Documents/EyeTV Archive"
<Directory "/Volumes/Macintosh HD2/Documents/EyeTV Archive">
AuthType Digest
AuthName "EyeTV"
AuthUserFile /Users/uname/.htdigest
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
Require user uname
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
I think you can turn Web off/on in Server.app to relaunch apached, or simply "sudo apachectl -D WEBSERVICE_ON -D MACOSXSERVER -k restart".
Securely copy to all desired remote clients the file IntermediateCA_SERVER.DOMAIN.COM_1.cer, which you exported from System Keychain above. Add this certificate to your remote keychain and trust it, allowing secure connections between remote clients and your server. Also on remote clients: Firefox>Advanced>Encryption>View Certificates>Authorities>Import...> Import this certificate into your browser. Now there should be a secure connection to https://server.domain.com without any SSL warnings.
One caveat is that there should be a nice way to establish secure SSL to https://domain.com and https://www.domain.com, but the automagically created SSL certificate only knows about server.domain.com. I attempted to follow this advice when I originally created the cert and add these additional domains (under "Subject Alternate Name Extension"), but the cert creation UI failed when I did this, so I just gave up. I hope that by the time these certs expire, someone posts some documentation on how to manage and change Lion Server SSL scripts AFTER the server has been promoted to an Open Directory Master. In the meantime, it would be much appreciated if anyone can post either how to add these additional domain names to the existing cert, or generate and/or sign a cert with a self-created Keychain Access root certificate authority. In my experience, any attempt to mess with the SSL certs automatically generated just breaks Lion Server.
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User-agent: *
Disallow: /
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#!/bin/sh
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SSHPORT=$SSHPORT_DEFAULT
TUNNEL_DETAILS=$LOCALHOSTPORT_DEFAULT:$USERNAME_DEFAULT@$HOSTNAME_DEFAULT:$REMOT EHOST_DEFAULT:$REMOTEPORT_DEFAULT
while [ "$1" != "" ]
do
case $1
in
-p) shift; # -p option
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shift;;
*) TUNNEL_DETAILS=$1; # 1st argument option
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esac
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shopt -s extglob # needed for +(pattern) syntax; man sh
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USERNAME=$USERNAME_DEFAULT
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REMOTEPORT=$REMOTEPORT_DEFAULT
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CAR=${CAR%:} # delete :
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then
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fi
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CAR=${TUNNEL_DETAILS##$CDR} # cut this string from TUNNEL_DETAILS
CAR=${CAR#:} # delete :
if [ "$CAR" != "" ] # leading or trailing port specified
then
REMOTEPORT=$CAR
fi
TUNNEL_DETAILS=$CDR
# REMOTEHOST
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CAR=${TUNNEL_DETAILS##$CDR} # cut this string from TUNNEL_DETAILS
CAR=${CAR#:} # delete :
if [ "$CAR" != "" ] # leading or trailing port specified
then
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fi
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CDR=${TUNNEL_DETAILS#*@} # delete shortest leading +([0-9]):
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CAR=${CAR%@} # delete @
if [ "$CAR" != "" ] # leading or trailing port specified
then
USERNAME=$CAR
fi
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# HOSTNAME
HOSTNAME=$TUNNEL_DETAILS
if [ "$HOSTNAME" == "" ] # no hostname given
then
HOSTNAME=$HOSTNAME_DEFAULT
fi
ssh -p $SSHPORT -L $LOCALHOSTPORT:$REMOTEHOST:$REMOTEPORT -l $USERNAME $HOSTNAME -f -C -q -N \
&& echo "SSH tunnel established via $LOCALHOSTPORT:$REMOTEHOST:$REMOTEPORT\n\tto $USERNAME@$HOSTNAME:$SSHPORT." \
|| echo "SSH tunnel FAIL." -
How do I best share an iPhoto library to several users on a Lion Server?
I am considering setting up a Lion Server to use for our family of five. The one thing I struggle to understand from searching for information here, and throughout the Internet is: Can I set up a Lion server to have shared libraries for iTunes and iPhoto, and what is the best way to set it up? I would also like to understand if such a shared setup would create any issues with reduced functionality and/or performance?
Today we share libraries across several accounts on one computer, and that works mostly fine, although with some restrictions (only one account can have iPhoto open at a time, which is not much of an issue if on same computer; iTunes can share music but not Apps, ...)I followed Apple's support team's instruction to create iPhoto on the new external hard drive (My Passport) - and then drag and drop the existing iPhoto library onto it from the Master file.
Don't know who told you that but it would be difficult to be more wrong.
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
Regards
TD -
Using Mountain Lion Server so my family can have separate logins and connect via Screen Share.
Works great, each has their own home directory and permissions are perfect.
Now setting up iTunes for each with their own Library (not shared), thus keeping multiple Libraries.
I get this;
This Computer is already associated with an Apple ID.
If you download past purchases with your Apple ID, you
cannot auto-download past purchases with a different
Apple ID for 90 days.
What!
So what it is on the same computer, they are completely separate Libraries never to be mixed.
If this works, I only need to keep one computer up and running, instead of three.
Each can do their syncing/backup and connect to the various Airplay/AppleTVs I have around the house.
How do I fix this.
ThanksBottom line is you can't - easily.
You need to make sure that you log out of the server each time otherwise the ID is running. To explain, if you had a laptop with different people using it, your solution works fine. Each time someone logs in, the iTunes ID is different so it works as you can only have one person using the laptop at any one time.
Now, turning your problem inside-out, you want people to be able to log into iTunes concurrently to use their own version of the program with their own library. This does not seem to work and you get the conflicted ID error message. Even though iTunes is running under their own login ident, I have never been able to get this working reliably and was told that iTunes is NOT a network-aware application as it is designed to be single user.
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I was getting the same behavior after Apple support had me delete some plist files to get Airplay going. I was also getting the following error:
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My goal is to set up my MacMini as a sharepoint for files and other data with my other partners.
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1. How do you point the DNS to my mac mini server.
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I went to mail.app and deleted the mail cache, remove the filters for spams and all that. But I still do not get FB email confirmation. What could be the reason.
This is what I get on my message log.
This from All messages log:
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6/14/12 8:50:26.206 AM postfix/smtpd: disconnect from outmail020.snc7.facebook.com[69.171.232.154]
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6/14/12 8:52:09.926 AM postfix/smtpd: disconnect from outmail008.snc4.facebook.com[66.220.144.142]
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6/14/12 8:55:29.936 AM postfix/anvil: statistics: max connection count 1 for (smtpd:69.171.232.154) at Jun 14 08:50:21
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Jun 14 01:11:10 rj45hotspot postfix/dnsblog[5142]: warning: dnsblog_query: lookup error for DNS query 134.143.42.114.zen.spamhaus.org: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=134.143.42.114.zen.spamhaus.org type=A: Host not found, try again
Jun 14 08:50:14 rj45hotspot postfix/dnsblog[7431]: warning: dnsblog_query: lookup error for DNS query 154.232.171.69.zen.spamhaus.org: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=154.232.171.69.zen.spamhaus.org type=A: Host not found, try again
ThanksHmmm, not sure what is going on, but from the Mail log, neither of those IPs have a name associated with them, 1st one is in Netherlands, 2nd one is iin Africa!???
Any idea why it'd be looking those up?
I wonder if your Facebook account has been hacked, or See if you might have this malware redirecting DNS queries...
http://macmegasite.com/node/3924
http://www.ehow.com/how_2128387_remove-osxrspluga-trojan-horse-mac.html
How to fix...
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071031114140862
Known DNSChanger address ranges. Source: dcwg.org
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/03/court-4-more-months-for-dnschanger-infected-p cs/
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