Help to undersand Leopard Server......

Hi I'm trying to setup a leopard server on my G5 dual core 2.0 GHZ but I have some question to resolve.
When I add a server in Server admin what I add? A phisical or a logical interface. If I have a domain and i have already a serve.local can I add this domain to Server admin and create other users & groups visible only at the domain and not in local & vice versa?
If I had to create 4 different wiky section with different groups & users one for domain1.com another for domain2.com etc etc. I can? If Yes How?
I apologize for my newbie question but I'm trying to do this from a week without results.
Thank's.
Message was edited by: AxlPrince

Hi
http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/GettingStartedv10.5.pdf
http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/ServerAdministration_v10.5_2ndEd.pdf
http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/UserManagementv10.5.mnl.pdf
http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/WebTechnologies_Adminv10.5.pdf
http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/ExtendingYour_WikiServer.pdf
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/resources/
Tony

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Hello,
Here is my set up:
We have a static IP.
ADSL Netgear Router takes in the internet connection. (Not sure what the version is, but it had a VPN wizard).
Latest Aiport BS serves just the wireless.
Leopard Server in Standard Mode.
For the life of me I can't get the VPN working. I can't even make the server public. Granted I am out of my depth, but I am endeavoring to learn but there seems to be so many boxes to tick with servers that I never even know where I am up to.
On the 3 items in my setup above, what should the settings be starting to look like.
If I type our servers FQDN into Safari I am told that the server does not exist, but I can't work out how to make it available to the public. I am guessing that if I can't see the server via a browser then I am never going to be able to connect via VPN?
If you know of any other questions that I should be asking too, please let me know. My googling is getting me no where. I have even been doing the lynda.com tutorials on Leopard Server. So I promise that I am trying.

Hi
Perhaps if I broke it down in these two ways.
(a) There is nothing stopping you from using the built in Routing Services in Leopard Server. To make things clearer these 'Routing' Services would be VPN, Firewall, NAT, DHCP and possibly DNS. Basically and simply if your server (by that I mean the hardware you are using to be your server) has two ethernet ports and if your ISP supplied broadband service is by DSL Cable Modem then you don't need a 3rd-Party Router. You can simply connect the ethernet cable from your Cable Modem directly into one ethernet port (this would be the WAN/Public/External connection. The other ethernet port can be connected directly to your network switch/hub (switch would be better). This would be your LAN/Private/Internal connection. Running Gateway Assistant will help you configure the Server (simply to begin with) to 'share' the internet connection on your WAN port with any client computer configured to use your LAN port. It is NAT that basically fulfils this function. The Firewall Service will allow any request that comes from your 'trusted' LAN access to the Internet using the WAN port. Any 'untrusted' request trying to gain access to your LAN from the Internet is blocked by your Firewall unless you configure your Firewall to allow it through. The VPN Service along with the DHCP Service can be configured to allow trusted remote clients to access your Server as well as the private network as if that remote client was actually at your Server's location. Remote client access is achieved by simply keying in the fixed external IP Address that is used at your Server's location in Internet Connect as well as a name and password that is configured on the Server.
(b) You purchase a 3rd Party Router to this all for you and dispense with the built in tools on the Server. Simply configure the Router to allow VPN passthrough. There are 3 basic VPN connection methods: PPTP, L2TP and IPSec (ISKAMP). Each of them offer increasingly more secure methods. Depending on which method you finally decide on may mean using additional 'client' software not available as standard on the client OS.
Back to (a): If your internet connection is down a phone line then you would need to use an ADSL Modem Router anyway. For me it does not make much sense to connect the LAN side of this Router to your Server and to further configure the Server to do something the Router can already do for you in most cases better and simpler. Why complicate things trying to do this server side when by your own admission 'I am not getting it/anything'
There is some excellent advice on these forums regarding VPN have you searched for them? If you have and you are still struggling to understand this then perhaps it may be more beneficial as well as being cost effective to get a professional in to do this for you. You would benefit enormously as not only will you see how it gets done but you will also be able to ask questions that may make the whole concept of VPN and networking in general more understandable.
Hope this helps, Tony

Help: Install Snow Leopard Server 10.6.0 on Mid-2010 Mac Mini, then update?

I just purchased a Mid-2010 Mac Mini with Snow Leopard Client 10.6.3 (the new ones just released) with the idea of installing my copy of Snow Leopard Client on it and using it as both a network server and media server.
I own Snow Leopard Server 10.6.0 (the initial DVD release) and was thinking I could do a fresh install and update to 10.6.4 on the Mini without problem, but that didn't work. I also tried doing a Target Disk Install to the Mini using my MacbookPro, but the installer choked at the Machine Checksum saying MBPs weren't supported to run the installer.
So, that blows both of my previously known installation options. I was wondering if anyone else with the new Mini and Snow Leopard Server had any suggestions on how to get my current version of Snow Leopard Server (10.6.0) installed on the Mini and then run system updates to get it to boot properly.
Thanks

Allan Eckert wrote:
Hi GrainFocuser;
Your copy of SL Server version is probably too old to install on the new Mac Mini. It probably doesn't have all of the correct drivers for the newer hardware.
You might have better success with your alternatives if you post over on the server forum instead of here.
Allan
Message was edited by: Allan Eckert
Allan, thanks.
It is pretty clear that my installation disk is too old, hence looking for options and suggestions.
In years past with previous versions of Server, there was a way to install an outdated install disk (a point release or 3 behind) and then run the necessary installation updates...either through target disk mode or on to a separate boot disc.
So, with my 10.6.0 Server Install disc, I am not able to do so in either scenario because a) My other admin machine is a MB Pro and the installer performs a hardware checksome preventing install...so no Target Disk Mode, and B) Install on other disc from mini, again Hardware checksome since hardware not recognized.
I am looking at options to enable an install with my disk short of having to physically walk into Apple (a huge trek) and get a new install disk or ask Apple Support to mail one.
So, again... Any options from OS X Server Admins out there?

Discoveries while trying to setup Leopard Server - Help! What am I doing ??

I have documented 2 scenarios and i would like some help with proper build procedures. Until today I have been using the host record I asked my ISP who also hosts Pri/Sec for my company domain to setup. It wasn't until this morning that I realized that they didn't setup a PTR record so because of that I did a RDNS lookup on my static IP and today I programmed that into the host/domain fields thru my build so that there was proper RDNS for the setup. Which looks like this rrcs-0-0-0-0.central.biz.us.rr.com zero's being an actual static IP.
Scenario 1- Install Leopard onto MacMini with Standard install and use Apple Airport extreme for NAT firewall/router. Ok so I have done this about 4-6 times to try and get this right.
A. Install Leopard and let OS auto config Airport-N for port mapping.
B. Airport WAN is static IP from ISP and LAN is 10.0.1.1, Mini LAN is 10.0.1.2 Airport is DHCP provider on LAN.
C. Mini hostname is set to rrcs-0-0-0-0 and domain is set to central.biz.us.rr.com
D. After the system was rebooted after install I immediately got an error because the server prefs told me it could not find server rrcs-0-0-0-0.central.biz.us.rr.com which was weird because it is a brand new build. but since I setup the computer name to be mac-srvr I was able to remove the FQDN and input mac-srvr.local and then I could sign in. ---- I think this happened because when I am trying to log into the server prefs it's going out and performing a lookup and returning an error because from inside the FQDN reverse is actually the WAN interface of the Airport and not the LAN of the mini even though I told the mini to be the FQDN. Hope that makes sense and someone can tell me if I am right and then how to fix it .
E. When I connected the MacBook and setup a user on the LAN side and then immediately disconnected from LAN and performed Dialup to the internet I was able to use the VPN for the first time which is great but but but the ichat would not work as I kept getting certificate errors and the ical from what I remember was good.
So major issues here in this scenario is that internally the server is setup as rrcs-0-0-0-0.central.biz.us.rr.com and services don't seem to be able to find that computer. And second ichat does not accept the default certificate and or cannot connect to the ichat server.
Scenario 2 - Install Leopard onto MacPro with Standard install nic0-wan with static ip 0.0.0.0 and nic1-lan with static of 192.168.1.1
A. Install Leopard and set hostname=rrcs-0-0-0-0 and domain=central.biz.us.rr.com with computer name of mac-srvr.
B. Upon server reboot and the second interface is not giving out IP's, I found that the range was from 192.168.1.2-254 and the default search domain was example.com because I Ieft that field blank during install and so I had to stop DHCP and setup someting like company.office and restart and all is was good.
C. Once Macbook was on LAN and services setup properly I then disconnected and I was not able to VPN into the network like on the macmini unless I opened up the server admin and went the vpn console and then enabled pptp with another range. I could then PPTP vpn but not L2TP which should have worked out of the setup. But when I do PPTP I cannot gain access to server resources via smb://192.168.1.1 which is what the server automatically creates when you run server gateway assistant.
D. The ichat and or L2TP VPN does not work unless I actually go into the Server Admin and disable it which I have another posting in VPN/Networking support about this for a 3rd build showing the same issues.
So major issues here are that services such as ichat, L2TP does not work unless I disable firewall, PPTP does work but does not pass traffic onto the LAN or I can't log into the server shares.
So if anyone has any insight, I am about 20 rebuilds in trying to get just one working properly over the past 3 days. And if anyone has a step by step that would be even better lol. I have all the Apple Server Docs as I attended a training seminar recently so I am well versed in the generic documentation but there is nothing in the server admin or any other apple doc that states this is what you need and how to do it as far as setup goes with setting up your Leopard server if you don't have external DNS and or if you just want to have a fake dns setup like fakeserver.fakedomain.office as we do with SBS. So any help would be good.

Found that if I clean up DNS for my domain with PTR and A then everything started working properly after a rebuild.

Can you help me solve my Leopard Server VPN madness?

Hello all,
I've been having a devil of a time getting Leopard Server's VPN service to work "properly". None of this is mission critical, as it's simply on a home system I'm using as a nat/dns/dhcp/firewall/mail/web server for my Comcast line (with a static IP). But, it is frustrating, because I currently have a 10.4.11 Server fulfilling the same roll. So it seems like Leopard should be able to be made to work. I'm gonna go step by step here with my install process in the hopes that if I'm doing something wrong someone will be kind enough to catch it. Thanks for bearing with me.
I've installed Leopard Server 10.5 (Mirror door G4, FYI) with the built-in ethernet connected to my Comcast router (with a static external IP). Immediately after 10.5 installs I restart and update everything to 10.5.2, then I install a Sonnet Gigabit NIC, it's drivers, and assign it 192.168.3.1, where it will live as my internal router, server, etc. I turn on DNS and setup an internal ".lan" zone that resolves to 192.168.3.1. Pop into Terminal and confirm that rDNS is in fact working, it is. And check that "changeip -checkhostname" resolves itself correctly (to the external IP).
Next, turn on the NAT service and run the gateway setup assistant. After a reboot I quickly check that my internal clients with static IPs (192.168.3.10, .20, etc) are working and pulling DNS OK, they are. Jump into the Firewall, and for the moment just open it wide up by accepting all connections. At various times during testing I've configured the firewall to exactly match my 10.4 Server firewall, but for the time being I can just leave it open. I create a Firewall group to cover my 192.168.3.x internal network, and another to handle 192.168.3.60/29 to handle the VPN service I'll setup in a sec. Jump over to the DHCP service where by default gateway setup creates a 192.168.1.x DHCP zone. I delete that and create a new 192.168.3.x zone covering .50-.59. Turn DHCP on and confirm it's working, good, it is.
Now, here is where the VPN fun begins. The last service I turn on is the VPN service (I've alternatively tried letting Gateway Setup activate it, and just doing it myself, with this same result). I configure it to accept L2TP at 192.168.3.60 - .63. Like I said this is a home server, so I don't need a lot of VPN connections. Finally, when I test the VPN from a 10.5.2 Client (MacBook coming in off a neighbors open wireless network with a 10.0.0.x string) I am able to connect, and I can see/ping/mount/share screen on the server. I can also ping the attached VPN client at 192.168.3.60 from the server. However, I cannot ping or see (In ARD) any other machines on the internal network from the attached VPN client. Likewise from one of the internal systems, say my Mac mini at 192.168.3.10 I cannot ping the attached VPN client at 192.168.3.60. Out of curiosity I've tried doing a rDNS lookup while attached to the VPN and the client isn't able to resolve any of the internal DNS entries.
So, what gives? As I've mentioned I have exactly this same setup working just fine with Tiger Server. Same NAT, same Firewall, same DNS, and same L2TP VPN setup. For the life of me though, I cannot get attached VPN clients to see the internal network when I put Leopard Server in place. Clearly the internal DNS isn't working for attached VPN clients, although I'm not certain if that is a cause or a symptom. I've setup a network routing definition for the internal private network, which didn't help. I also tried setting up PPTP instead of L2TP, and had the same problem.
Is anyone having similar problems with Leopard Server's VPN service? If not, could someone hit me with the clue stick and set me right? As I said, in the grand scheme of things this isn't a big deal for me. But, it's just frustrating that I can get so close to updating my home server and just fall short.
Thanks!

Your post actually contains the Key to solve the problem and there is not really a big need for going all the way to use the Property List Editor to fork around /etc/ipfilter/ipaddressgroups.plist.
There has been much written on this problem but basically you see that most is trial and error and this does include myself and my findings in this post, too, but I think I can further narrow down on what CAUSES this problem and how to fix it.
First off, we are talking a combination of using NAT (Network Address Translation - bridging an Internet connection on an external network card over to an internal network card), Firewall (which is needed in OS X to be have NAT working because the Firewall "helps" NAT by doing its job, DHCP (for providing dynamic IP addresses to clients on the internal network, don't confuse, DHCP is not providing this service to the VPN clients, that is done by the VPN server), and - last but not least - VPN to provide access to not only to the server but to any machine on the internal network over the outside network card (aka, giving remote clients a chance to connect to the local network over the public Internet in a save and nice way).
OK. The short story: you can do it ALL in Mac OS X 10.5's Server Admin tool. If it fails it is nearly always the Firewall!
You can check if this is the case for your setup by temporarily opening the Firewall up to not block any traffic: in Server Admin, click on Firewall -> Settings -> Services -> Edit Service for: any and click "Allow all trafic from "any"", save it (and to be 100% sure, stop and restart the firewall. If your clients can NOW connect at least to the server, it was the firewall. Now don't forget to switch off allowing all traffic from any, or you will be left with an open doors server ready for anybody to explore
Now what goes wrong in the first place? It appears that the GSA (Gateway Setup Assistant) that is "hidden away" in the NAT settings does something awfully wrong. It will set up all the address groups in the firewall: the any group will remain as it is usually, another one defining the internal network, and a one called VPN-net for VPN.
What it DOES do wrong here (I am no firewall expert, this is purely trial and error, so please anybody do explain!) is to give the VPN-net exactly the same address range as the internal network. And here seems to be the overall problem.
When Twintails wrote to add 192.168.3.60/27 as address range for VPN, I realized what he/she did. Writing 192.168.3.60/27 effectively narrows down the address range starting at 192.168.3.33 up to 192.168.3.62. There are millions of subnetmask calculators out on the net, give it a try e.g. here: http://www.subnet-calculator.com/
So, I looked for what range of address will actually be given out by the VPN server to VPN clients upon connections. Of course you need to make sure that this address range is NOT given out by your DHCP server.
In my setup, the server is 192.168.1.1, the DHCP server provides addresses from 192.168.1.10 up to 192.168.1.127 (I start with 10 because I have some static addresses for special purposes from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.9. So, this means, anything above 192.168.1.127 is potentially "free" for my VPN connections.
Next I used the subnetmask calculator to find a narrow address group that matched my purposes. I found 192.168.1.192/26 which effectively gives me a range from 192.168.1.192 to 192.168.1.255 (which is in fact more then I have clients connecting from externally!).
I went to the Server Admin Tool, and clicked Firewall -> Settings -> Address Group and edited the VPN-net one. First I deleted what was in "Addresses in group" and entered from scratch 192.168.1.192/26. Next - just to make certain because basically this is what Twintails had in his/her post by saying to add a name String with exactly the same information - I overwrote VPN-net by 192.168.1.192/26 and saved. (I THINK that this last step might not really be needed, but I haven't tried).
Next click Save (basically it should already work, but I always want to be extra sure, so I stoped and immediately thereafter started the firewall again to be 100% certain all new rules are now active.
And now: it works! Clients can access the server AND the entire local network from remote using VPN.
One last comment: I have the feeling that (although less safe and less advanced technologicall) PPTP works much better for us then L2TP. So I have switched off L2TP support altogether because it simply NEVER really worked. We are using Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 to connect to the 10.5 server using this setup.

Help with CF9 Standard Install and Mac OS Server (Snow Leopard Server)

Hello,
I recently purchased a mac mini server (with snow leopard server) and will be using it to host my CF9 applications. This install is WAY different than the install needed on a windows machine. I tried to install it once and somehow hosed up Apache and now I can't even get it to start up (apache). So I am having the colo company to do a full restore of the server and I took notes on the Mac Server install and below is the questions I have.
1.) Since Snow Leopard Server comes with Apache webserver, it is what CF wants to use. This is fine, I just need to know where these things are...
It is asking for the Configuration Directory: I'm guessing it is /private/etc/apache2 ? Right or Wrong???
2.) It is asking for Directory and file name of server binary: It currently defaults to /usr/sbin/httpd is this right or should I point it to another directory?
3.) It is asking for Directory and file name of server script: It currently defaults to /usr/sbin/apachectl is this right or should I point it to another directory?
It also wants the location where I can place the CFIDE. Can I place this anywhere I wish or is there a preferred location to point this to?
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Please Help ANYONE, if you have mac os experience and installing CF9 onto a mac server
Thanks

I have been getting this exact same problem. CF installer is somehow writing some invalid information into the httpd.conf file. I was able to replace the httpd.conf file with the default one, and was able to go through the webconnector process again and (sometimes randomly) it works. I also spent about 4 hours on the line with adobe CF support and made no progress beyond what I'll post here .
To answer your questions about file locations:
/private/etc/apache2/ for the httpd.conf files
/usr/sbin/ for both the apachectl and the httpd binaries
Although I'm able to get past where you are, and it seems to work correctly, Immediately upon adding a new site via server admin it all breaks. Coldfusion then will only work if I manually go to a cfm document. For example: http://example.com/ will give me the raw text from the (default index) index.cfm file. But typing http://example.com/index.cfm works.
I am lost here as well. After 4 hours on the phone with adobe support I would have hoped it would be an easy fix. I've completely nuked and reinstalled the server from scratch with the exact same results both times.
Does anyone have the slightest clue about what may be going on here?

Jetphoto Server on Snow Leopard Server - Need help.

Folks, I recently setup a machine using Snow Leopard Server and migrated our jetphoto server (http://www.jetphotosoft.com/web/?s=product_server) to this machine. I cannot get it to work. It worked perfectly on Leopard client.
I enabled my php5 module. I just don't know what to do on this one. I'd appreciate any help getting this going.
Essentially I downloaded the jetphoto server 1.3, moved the jpserver folder to the correct level of the webserver folder and attempted to load it in Safari.
All I get is:
Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404
lpiserver.local
Fri Apr 23 07:47:33 2010
Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.1

Folks, I recently setup a machine using Snow Leopard Server and migrated our jetphoto server (http://www.jetphotosoft.com/web/?s=product_server) to this machine. I cannot get it to work. It worked perfectly on Leopard client.
I enabled my php5 module. I just don't know what to do on this one. I'd appreciate any help getting this going.
Essentially I downloaded the jetphoto server 1.3, moved the jpserver folder to the correct level of the webserver folder and attempted to load it in Safari.
All I get is:
Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404
lpiserver.local
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Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.1

SNOW LEOPARD SERVER PROBLEMS REQUIRE CERTIFIED CONSULTANT TO HELP

I've had a pretty unstable Snow Leopard server install since it was upgraded from Leopard a few months ago. Some of the problems were said to be hardware related, but I've been unable to migrate it to a different computer (Mac Mini).
The current installation is running, albeit poorly.
We had a Mac consultant involved in these issues, but he has proven to be unstable and unreliable as well - so we're on a search for a new consultant to give us some paid assistance in straightening this thing out.
We're not on the US mainland, but can make the server accessible by ARD and/or SSH to someone.
Someone with Apple certification would be preferred.

Hi Brian,
I'm an IT consultant dealing with Mac OS Servers and Windows Servers as well as Linux. I can offer a few helpful suggestions since just recently I transferred data from a Mac OS 10.5.8 Server to a 10.6.2 Server.
My first question to you is what data are you immigrating from? example 10.5.8 Server Data to 10.6.2 server?
The reason why I ask this since IMAP data in 10.5.8 and before was using Cyrus and starting in 10.6 apple switched to Dovecot.
Initially, I did not realized that apple made the switch and had stalling problems using the apple migration tool. (Personally I don't think the tool works well since a lot of others are running into this problem when researching this issue).
In the end I decided it was best to important everything manually, mail and not use the apple immigration tool since I think it has some issues.
The first thing I would do is make sure the DNS is configure right so that the server can resolve it's name which is very important.
Hopefully you're been running Open Directory . Export the users from the old server and import it to the new 10.6.2 server.
Next transfer the IMAP mail from 10.5.8 server to the 10.6 server to the same locations.
Example in 10.5.8 server default location is
/var/imap
and
/var/spool/imap
note this is where cyrus stored imap data in 10.5.x and maybe before. I have to look at my old 10.4 server since I'll be upgrade my own server soon.
My clients Servers have been upgrade fine by doing the manual method.
anyway...
keep those two locations in mind of where you mail is stored.
next I would copy your old cyrus mail to the new server. Don't use the migration tool at all. Just setup the new server and get the DNS running so it can resolve itself before you do this.
also make sure mail server is not running and it's off.
open up a terminal window
copy and paste this but change the name of the volume/hard drive name (HD_name)
sudo /usr/libexec/dovecot/migratemaildata.pl --cyrusBin "/Volumes/HD_name/usr/bin/cyrus/bin" --database "/Volumes/HD_name/var/imap" --sourceSpool "/Volumes/HD_name/var/spool/imap" --targetSpool "/var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail"
ok do this will convert all of your cyrus mail to dovecot. Make sure you've already imported the users from Open Directory before doing this script.
after all of this
there's still one more step
for some reason the postfix "main.cf" file is configured to use cyrus in 10.6.2 update.
/etc/postfix/main.cf
you can use the pico editor if you like.
example
type in at terminal window
sudo pico /etc/postfix/main.cf
it should be near the end of the file
don't bother with anything that's in # which is ignored.
look for
mailbox_transport = cyrus
then change it to
mailbox_transport = dovecot
save the changes
edit settings in the mail server with server admin to what you had... I recommend don't importing the mail settings from the old server admin since some people reported that its better just to manually configure it.
however for other server admin settings you might try to export and import to the new server.
If you have any questions just let me know and I'm glad to help the mac community.

Please help, After mac 10.5.8 mail server migrated to snow leopard server?

Hi,
All my old emails date has changed to the date on which i migrated to snow leopard server, all the old emails show as they arrived on 31st of Dec 2009.
How do I fix it. Very Very important to me to have the arrived date.
Please help
Thanks,
Gulab Pasha

here is a link of other users having wrong date problems after upgrading to 10.6
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2134525
Some people have managed to fix their date problems. The easiest workaround is to add the column "Date Sent" under (View->Columns->Date Sent) in mail.app and to sort by the send date not the received date.
Hope this helps

HELP... Mac Leopard Server Install

Hi,
I did a clean install of Leopard server on a Mac Pro. When I open the server preferences pane, it "grinds" away for a while and then finally displays the services, but very slow... The same when opening server admin tools. It sees a server but takes a long time to display the information.
The only thing that is a bit odd to this newbie (very newbie) is that during the setup process I used office.companyname.com as the primary DNS. But the sever host name is Company-Name-Sever.local not sure if that means anything to you guys...
When I try to set up a macbook pro to the server it displays office.companyname.com, which doesn't work with the password. So I enter Company-Name-Sever.local which does work with the password, but takes a long time to show the services available, and the list doesn't include all the services that users is assigned....
What's up??
Many Thanks!!

Hi.
You do need (and Apple does not emphasize this enough), working forward and reverse DNS for OS X Server. It need not be on your OS X Server, but it is needed.
To change the server's FQDN after-the-fact, you need to use changeip in the terminal.
enter: man changeip
for more info.
Please, be very, very careful if you are new to DNS and your machine is on a publicly reachable IP !
If that is the case, please hire a demonstrably knowledgeable professional to help with your DNS. For example, have your ISP host your DNS. It It's not something you should ever "play" with outside of anything but a private network and with zone transfers disabled unless you know what you're doing.
For example, please read the whole thread,
http://lists.apple.com/archives/macos-x-server/2008/Jan/msg00198.html

Leopard Server deteriorating ... Help?

Howdy All,
I installed Leopard Server a couple of weeks ago (update) and everything seemed to go well. All services worked well for a couple of weeks.
Just before I was going away I decided to increase the aggressiveness of the spam filtering. Seems like it was a bad move (although I am not certain that's what caused the problem).
Mail Services died just after I had left. Luckily I could remotely connect from overseas with Server Admin, remotely ssh, and even screen share.
Lots of debugging and analysis seemed to suggest the problem was with amavisd.
It seems the amavisd launchd configuration file had disappeared (causing problems). Manually starting amavisd seemed to get mail moving again (since it works as a proxy smtp).
A week later Mail stopped again. This time I tried to turn off all spam and antivirus filtering on the server (seemed this would be a simpler solution).
Now the server has deteriorated significantly. I cannot connect with Server Admin. I cannot connect with ssh (or screen sharing). It does serve Web pages and respond to pings.
I have had someone do a hard reboot of the machine, hoping this would at least give it a fresh start but still I am not able to connect in any way..
Any suggestions as to how I can fix things remotely?
The last time I connected I saw some process (amavisd?) being throttled in a log file, I am guessing something has gone out of control and is stealing all resources.
I am not sure why I can't even ssh to the machine. Ssh seems to make the connection but I don't get a shell (or something else is not proceeding).
Using a VPN connection:
MacRyan:~ ashley$ ssh -v [email protected]
OpenSSH_4.5p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to 192.168.1.2 [192.168.1.2] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file .../.ssh/identity type -1
debug1: identity file .../.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file .../.ssh/id_dsa type -1
So it seems to connect ok.
If I get someone to boot into Single User would that be a help or does it appear to need more serious attention?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Cheers,
Ashley Aitken.

Many thanks for your answer, Michael. You're very kind
I read about this problem on Mac forums, and now I have read those links you sent me, but, unfortunately, I do not found the solution.
In any case, I deleted Parallels 10 (after paying the upgrade) because after installing several times Parallels Tools, Snow Leopard Server system was corrupted and appeared the screen full of stains, no folders, etc.
Thinking I had lost all the files, I tried to reinstall SLS as a virtual machine, but I could not do it because it gave me error continuously.
Then I deleted PD 10, but I'd like to retrieve at least files I had in the virtual disk... Although it is possible that everyone has been corrupted.
When I have time will connect an iMac to my main iMac by firewire (although this is not easy) to see if I can convert my main iMac in an external hard drive, but I don't know if doing that I'll get access to folders and files I had in Snow Leopard Server. When I try that, I’ll talk you.
Best regards.

Need help sorting a 'self-populating' plist file (vpn on mac leopard server - 10.6.8)

i recently configured my mac snow leopard server using terminal and had it successfully working.
i could vpn internally and externally to my server at its location.
i one day started getting the message
     "The connection has failed. Please verify your settings and try again"
i did as the message said and everything remained the same;
- server IP
- shared secret
- username and password
- public IP address
- com.apple.ppp.l2tp.plist stil, configured correctly
on a mission i thought id configure it the normal way by entering the data into the server admin panel and tried flicking the VPN service on and it wouldnt work, i was also getting an error saying it could not launch the com.apple.ppp.l2tp plist.
upon investigation i found out that i had installed (but not running) iVPN... so i uninstalled this...
still i could not get a VPN connection so i checked the com.apple.RemoteAccessServers.plist and noticed it had doubled in size (originally 4kb and now 8kb).
i thought this was a mistake and deleted it knowing it would self create a new fresh plist file.... HOWEVER it constantly populates the info twice as shown below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>ActiveServers</key>
    <array>
        <string>com.apple.ppp.l2tp</string>
    </array>
    <key>Globals</key>
    <dict>
        <key>PSKeyAccount</key>
        <string>vpn_0649d87c2f06</string>
    </dict>
    <key>Servers</key>
    <dict>
        <key>com.apple.ppp.l2tp</key>
        <dict>
            <key>DNS</key>
            <dict>
                <key>OfferedSearchDomains</key>
                <array>
                    <string>8.8.8.8</string>
                    <string>8.8.4.4</string>
                </array>
                <key>OfferedServerAddresses</key>
                <array>
                    <string>192.168.0.248</string>
                </array>
            </dict>
            <key>EAP</key>
            <dict>
                <key>KerberosServicePrincipalName</key>
                <string>vpn/[email protected]</string>
            </dict>
            <key>IPSec</key>
            <dict>
                <key>AuthenticationMethod</key>
                <string>SharedSecret</string>
                <key>IdentifierVerification</key>
                <string>None</string>
                <key>LocalCertificate</key>
                <data>
                </data>
                <key>LocalIdentifier</key>
                <string></string>
                <key>RemoteIdentifier</key>
                <string></string>
                <key>SharedSecret</key>
                <string>com.apple.ppp.l2tp</string>
                <key>SharedSecretEncryption</key>
                <string>Keychain</string>
            </dict>
            <key>IPv4</key>
            <dict>
                <key>ConfigMethod</key>
                <string>Manual</string>
                <key>DestAddressRanges</key>
                <array>
                    <string>192.168.0.230</string>
                    <string>192.168.0.240</string>
                </array>
                <key>OfferedRouteAddresses</key>
                <array/>
                <key>OfferedRouteMasks</key>
                <array/>
                <key>OfferedRouteTypes</key>
                <array/>
            </dict>
            <key>Interface</key>
            <dict>
                <key>SubType</key>
                <string>L2TP</string>
                <key>Type</key>
                <string>PPP</string>
            </dict>
            <key>L2TP</key>
            <dict>
                <key>Transport</key>
                <string>IPSec</string>
            </dict>
            <key>PPP</key>
            <dict>
                <key>ACSPEnabled</key>
                <integer>1</integer>
                <key>AuthenticatorACLPlugins</key>
                <array>
                    <string>DSACL</string>
                </array>
                <key>AuthenticatorEAPPlugins</key>
                <array>
                    <string>EAP-KRB</string>
                </array>
                <key>AuthenticatorPlugins</key>
                <array>
                    <string>DSAuth</string>
                </array>
                <key>AuthenticatorProtocol</key>
                <array>
                    <string>MSCHAP2</string>
                </array>
                <key>DisconnectOnIdle</key>
                <integer>1</integer>
                <key>DisconnectOnIdleTimer</key>
                <integer>7200</integer>
                <key>IPCPCompressionVJ</key>
                <integer>0</integer>
                <key>LCPEchoEnabled</key>
                <integer>1</integer>
                <key>LCPEchoFailure</key>
                <integer>5</integer>
                <key>LCPEchoInterval</key>
                <integer>60</integer>
                <key>Logfile</key>
                <string>/var/log/ppp/vpnd.log</string>
                <key>VerboseLogging</key>
                <integer>1</integer>
            </dict>
            <key>Radius</key>
            <dict>
                <key>Servers</key>
                <array>
                    <dict>
                        <key>Address</key>
                        <string>1.1.1.1</string>
                        <key>SharedSecret</key>
                        <string>1</string>
                    </dict>
                    <dict>
                        <key>Address</key>
                        <string>2.2.2.2</string>
                        <key>SharedSecret</key>
                        <string>2</string>
                    </dict>
                </array>
            </dict>
            <key>Server</key>
            <dict>
                <key>LoadBalancingAddress</key>
                <string>1.2.3.4</string>
                <key>LoadBalancingEnabled</key>
                <integer>0</integer>
                <key>Logfile</key>
                <string>/var/log/ppp/vpnd.log</string>
                <key>MaximumSessions</key>
                <integer>128</integer>
                <key>VerboseLogging</key>
                <integer>1</integer>
            </dict>
        </dict>
        <key>com.apple.ppp.pptp</key>
        <dict>
            <key>DNS</key>
            <dict>
                <key>OfferedSearchDomains</key>
                <array>
                    <string>8.8.8.8</string>
                    <string>8.8.4.4</string>
                </array>
                <key>OfferedServerAddresses</key>
                <array>
                    <string>192.168.0.248</string>
                </array>
            </dict>
            <key>EAP</key>
            <dict>
                <key>KerberosServicePrincipalName</key>
                <string>vpn/[email protected]</string>
            </dict>
            <key>IPv4</key>
            <dict>
                <key>ConfigMethod</key>
                <string>Manual</string>
                <key>DestAddressRanges</key>
                <array/>
                <key>OfferedRouteAddresses</key>
                <array/>
                <key>OfferedRouteMasks</key>
                <array/>
                <key>OfferedRouteTypes</key>
                <array/>
            </dict>
            <key>Interface</key>
            <dict>
                <key>SubType</key>
                <string>PPTP</string>
                <key>Type</key>
                <string>PPP</string>
            </dict>
            <key>PPP</key>
            <dict>
                <key>ACSPEnabled</key>
                <integer>1</integer>
                <key>AuthenticatorACLPlugins</key>
                <array>
                    <string>DSACL</string>
                </array>
                <key>AuthenticatorEAPPlugins</key>
                <array>
                    <string>EAP-RSA</string>
                </array>
                <key>AuthenticatorPlugins</key>
                <array>
                    <string>DSAuth</string>
                </array>
                <key>AuthenticatorProtocol</key>
                <array>
                    <string>MSCHAP2</string>
                </array>
                <key>CCPEnabled</key>
                <integer>1</integer>
                <key>CCPProtocols</key>
                <array>
                    <string>MPPE</string>
                </array>
                <key>DisconnectOnIdle</key>
                <integer>1</integer>
                <key>DisconnectOnIdleTimer</key>
                <integer>7200</integer>
                <key>IPCPCompressionVJ</key>
                <integer>0</integer>
                <key>LCPEchoEnabled</key>
                <integer>1</integer>
                <key>LCPEchoFailure</key>
                <integer>5</integer>
                <key>LCPEchoInterval</key>
                <integer>60</integer>
                <key>Logfile</key>
                <string>/var/log/ppp/vpnd.log</string>
                <key>MPPEKeySize128</key>
                <integer>1</integer>
                <key>MPPEKeySize40</key>
                <integer>0</integer>
                <key>VerboseLogging</key>
                <integer>1</integer>
            </dict>
            <key>Radius</key>
            <dict>
                <key>Servers</key>
                <array>
                    <dict>
                        <key>Address</key>
                        <string>1.1.1.1</string>
                        <key>SharedSecret</key>
                        <string>1</string>
                    </dict>
                    <dict>
                        <key>Address</key>
                        <string>2.2.2.2</string>
                        <key>SharedSecret</key>
                        <string>2</string>
                    </dict>
                </array>
            </dict>
            <key>Server</key>
            <dict>
                <key>Logfile</key>
                <string>/var/log/ppp/vpnd.log</string>
                <key>MaximumSessions</key>
                <integer>128</integer>
                <key>VerboseLogging</key>
                <integer>1</integer>
            </dict>
        </dict>
    </dict>
</dict>
</plist>
Thinking i was half clever i thought id do a restore to when i first set the server up... not successful
Secondly i wiped the drive with zero data and did a fresh install... still not successful.
There must be a way to fix this BS error!
my source for the original setup was here: http://dreaming-artemis.com/2011/07/18/setting-up-vpn-on-the-imac-osx-snow-leopa rd-10-6-8/
Thanks in advance
TMC

I would think you could copy them over using rsync, which is part of the OS X server package. If you're not familiar with rsync there is a tutorial here:
http://everythinglinux.org/rsync/
Skip the stuff about installing and configuring rsync and just go to the part about using it to copy files between servers.

Please help, after migrating to snow leopard Server my VPN is not working

Hi,
After migrated to Snow Leopard Server, my VPN settings are not working, My users not able to connect to VPN.
Please find below log. Please let me know the solution for it.
2010-01-05 13:19:32 IST Incoming call... Address given to client = 192.168.1.72
Tue Jan 5 13:19:33 2010 : Directory Services Authentication plugin initialized
Tue Jan 5 13:19:33 2010 : Directory Services Authorization plugin initialized
Tue Jan 5 13:19:33 2010 : PPTP incoming call in progress from '95.222.205.164'...
Tue Jan 5 13:19:33 2010 : PPTP connection established.
Tue Jan 5 13:19:33 2010 : using link 0
Tue Jan 5 13:19:33 2010 : Using interface ppp0
Tue Jan 5 13:19:33 2010 : Connect: ppp0 <--> socket[34:17]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:33 2010 : sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0x2794ebf2> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:34 2010 : rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x29205274> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:34 2010 : lcp_reqci: returning CONFACK.
Tue Jan 5 13:19:34 2010 : sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x29205274> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:36 2010 : sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0x2794ebf2> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:36 2010 : rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0x2794ebf2> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:36 2010 : sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x2794ebf2]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:36 2010 : sent [CHAP Challenge id=0x8d <620015595e4967664c1310241b4b3254>, name = "nova.thecoverstory.com"]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:36 2010 : rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x29205274]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:36 2010 : sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x2794ebf2]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:36 2010 : rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x29205274]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:39 2010 : sent [CHAP Challenge id=0x8d <620015595e4967664c1310241b4b3254>, name = "nova.thecoverstory.com"]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : rcvd [CHAP Response id=0x8d <c68742dc9457be5a61e444f00f53371d000000000000000044c6f89fa49ed8bf4c17a2861a2cfd 04ae1e6b9199527f9f00>, name = "jenny"]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : DSAuth plugin: Error -25300 while retrieving key agent password from the system keychain.
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : DSAuth plugin: Could not retrieve key agent account information.
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : sent [CHAP Success id=0x8d "S=B503F226B4DE4105A4711C0EA2E7C21B1A9A935D M=Access granted"]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : CHAP peer authentication succeeded for jenny
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : DSAccessControl plugin: User 'jenny' authorized for access
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : MPPE required, but keys are not available. Possible plugin problem?
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "MPPE required but not available"]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : Connection terminated.
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : Connect time 0.2 minutes.
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : Sent 0 bytes, received 0 bytes.
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : PPTP disconnecting...
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : PPTP disconnected
2010-01-05 13:19:40 IST --> Client with address = 192.168.1.72 has hungup
Thanks,
Gulab Pasha

Great !! save my trouble too
thanks a lot for the tip.

Help - Migrating from Tiger to Leopard Server via Apple Maintenance Program

Hi, I'm to upgrade an Apple Xserve running Mac OS Tiger to Leopard. There was an Apple Maintenance Program purchased for this Xserve. I plan to do a clean install on the server, however, I don't know where to find Leopard's serial number or if I need one or if I can do a clean install via AMP.
This was the first AMP sold in my country I think and the VAR was a little clueless, it wasn't our plan to upgrade until now and I don't know who to ask.
I have the media, but it wasn't the one that apple sent, the VAR just made me a copy of a Leopard Server. I have the license program agreement, there it is stated the License Number (amp - xx -xxxxx format), the License Date, the Sales Order # and something label PO.
Could somebody please point me out how should I proceed? The server is being moved from its intended use so a clean install is no problem (and prefered).
Thanks in advance
Rafael

You should get the media directly from Apple complete with "xsvr-"serialnumber in an envelope in the (snail-)mail.
We have customers which didn't get the serial or DVD in the envelope so we had to contact Apple again.

Wiped my entire macbook drive and now snow leopard won't install over snow leopard server, HELP!

I ordered, what I thought, was Snow Leopard a while ago because I was running Leopard and I wanted to get the app store so I could move onto Lion and then Mountain Lion. I ordered the disc over the phone and the woman sent me the Snow Leopard Server instead of just Snow Leopard, I didn't think much about it so I clean installed it and ran it on my unibody macbook for a while. I didn't see much use for the disc anymore seeing that everything was downloadable at this point, so I sold the disc on Ebay and carried on. The server edition started to slow my computer down due to all of its excess applications and what not, and I read online that Lion and Mountain Lion are also very slow on the old unibody Macbooks so I ordered a regular Snow Leopard disc, now available online, and tried to install it. My computer said Snow Leopard cannot be installed over Snow Leopard server so I went to disc utitlity and wiped my entire drive while the OS X Snow Leopard disc was running and trying to install. I went back to the install window and it still said OS X Snow leopard cannot be installed over Snow Leopard Server so I shut down my computer and tried to turn it back on and I all I got was a blinking folder with a question mark in it, what do I do????????
P.S. All of my content is backed up on an external harddrive so I am all good with that.

Drive Preparation
1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
7. After formatting has finished quit DU and return to the installer. Complete the Snow Leopard installation.

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