Leopard Server 10.5.3 Netinstall taking forever

I built my image through the SUI and then set my server to do a Netinstall. It's working sort of, I can image some machines but it takes a very long time for them to boot or machines won't boot at all. Can someone help me make sure I have all the t's crossed and the i's dotted? I used to do this with Panther and Tiger and I could image 20 or more machines every hour with no problems. I'm on an isolated 100mb switch and I'm having difficulty sometimes just getting one machine to netboot to do the netinstall. In the past I used an Airport as the DHCP server, I'm not doing that at the moment with this scenario. I may give a run though on Monday.
Any thoughts?

Resolved!!
Here is the problem. Even though Server Admin tells you that it is setting the mysql root password, it is not.
The root password that finally allowed me to login to mysql was the SYSTEM ROOT PASSWORD !!
Arrrrggghhh!!!
I don't know what password Server Admin is setting or why is calls it the mysql root password. Is there some other mysql account that would have worked with that password? I would like to know, but for now, I'm happy to finally be able to use MySQL on my Leopard Server.

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Snow Leopard Server running extremely slow all of a sudden!!

Hi, I'm not a qualified server technician but am currently trying my best to run a server in a Secondary School! Please help, need to fix ASAP.
So basically we've got a Mac Pro running Snow Leopard server which has become incredibly slow in the past week. Nothing has changed in our department to trigger this. Here's everything I know so far...
- If I try to log on to the admin account when "Some Network Accounts Are Available", log on will take under a minute. If I try to log on to the admin account when the light goes green and "Network Accounts Are Available" log on will take forever and eventually just crash and which point I have to just force a shutdown and try again.
- When I can log on, some aspects of the computing seems fast and other aspects are really slow. For example, a few programs open as soon as I log on no problem, however a simple spotlight search or trying to open Sytem Preferences will crash the computer completely.
- Have tried booting in Safe Mode, and everything ran fast and how it's mean to but once restarting and booting normally the problems remained.
Sorry for the lack of knowledge!!
Thanks in advance.

Your comment indicates "crash the computer"? Do you mean that OS X Server itself fails, and you have to reboot? Or that the application crashes, and you have to restart it?
The following are some general approaches toward gathering some data:
Launch Console.app from Applications > Utilities and see if there are blocks of repeating errors.
Launch Terminal.app from Applications > Utilities and issue the following harmess, diagnostic command:
sudo changeip -checkhostname
After entering an administrative password and possibly seeing a one-time informational message about sudo, you should see some network configuration information and then an indication that no changes are required, or that there are DNS or network errors.
Boot from the Snow Leopard installation DVD and run a volume verification pass using Disk Utility, this from the Utilities menu of the installation disl.
FWIW...
If the applications or OS X Server are crashing, then you're generally heard toward either a reinstallation of the software, or a hardware repair, or quite possibly a combination of the two.
Forcing a hard shutdown can lead to corruptions, depending on exactly what's going on when the power drops out; that's probably best left as a last-resort approach and one best avoided.

After installing SP3 for BO XI R1 - Crystal Reports taking forever to run.

Hello,
We are running BO XI R1 SP3. Ever since installing SP3 a number of our scheduled Crystal Reports are taking forever to run. The Business Objects server resources are okay, CPU never really gets above 50% so I figure perhaps it's our SQL Server.
We run SQL 2005 and CPU on that hovers around 30%, we've got 4 2.6GHz CPUs with 16GB of RAM. Looking in SQL Server activity monitor the reason the reports are taking some time is that the wait types are generally CXPACKET.
For example a report used to process in a minute however after installing SP3 the report now takes several hours. Since we've 4 CPU's on our SQL Server activity monitor creates four sessions for the report to try and process it in parallel. However all of those four sessions have a wait type of CXPACKET. This I understand is related to parallelism and people have said to reduce that so nothing runs in parallel.
However I should not have to do that as things used to run just fine, there is no physical reason (i.e. RAM / CPU / HDD) that reports are locked waiting in SQL server. Has anyone else had this issue or have any suggestions on how to fix please?
Kind regards,
Chris Rutherford

XIR2 has two different redistributable MSI packages. One is compatable with 1.1 framwork applications and the other is compatable with 2.0 framework applications.
try downloading the SP3 MSIs from [here|https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100009656792008E/crxir2sp3_net_si.zip]
this will have both MSIs
- CrystalReports11_5_NET.msi (for 1.1fwk applications)
- CrystalReports11_5_net_2005.msi (for 2.0fwk applications)
rename the CrystalReports11_5_net_2005.msi to CrystalRedist115_x86.msi and replace the existing file in the Bootstrapper folder path
Uninstall the last install, rebuild and try your Click-Once install again. This time you should have the 11.5.3700.0 runtime.
Dan

Unable to access gateway and DNS via VPN (L2TP) with Snow Leopard Server

Summary:
After rebooting my VPN server, i am able to establish a VPN (L2TP) connection from outside my private network. I am able to connect (ping, SSH, …) the gateway only until the first client disconnects. Then i can perfectly access all the other computers of the private network, but i cannot access the private IP address of the gateway.
Additionally, during my first VPN connection, my DNS server, which is on the same server, is not working properly with VPN. I can access it with the public IP address of my gateway. I can access it from inside my private network. A port scan indicates me that the port 53 is open, but a dig returns me a timeout.
Configuration:
Cluster of 19 Xserve3.1 - Snow Leopard Server 10.6.2
Private network 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 -> domain name: cluster
-> 1 controller, which act as a gateway for the cluster private network, with the following services activated:
DHCP, DNS, firewall (allowing all incoming traffic for each groups for test purposes), NAT, VPN, OpenDirectory, web, software update, AFP, NFS and Xgrid controller.
en0: fixed public IP address -> controller.example.com
en1: 192.168.1.254 -> controller.cluster
-> 18 agents with AFP and Xgrid agent activated:
en1: 192.168.1.x -> nodex.cluster with x between 1 and 18
VPN (L2TP) server distributes IP addresses between 192.168.1.201 and 192.168.1.210 (-> vpn1.cluster to vpn10.cluster). Client informations contain the private network DNS server informations (192.168.1.254, search domain: cluster).
_*Detailed problem description:*_
After rebooting the Xserve, my VPN server works fine except for the DNS. My client receives the correct informations:
Configure IPv4: Using PPP
IPv4 address: 192.168.1.201
Subnet Mask:
Router: 192.168.1.254
DNS: 192.168.1.254
Search domain: cluster
From my VPN client, i can ping all the Xserve of my cluster (192.168.1.1 to 18 and 192.168.1.254). If i have a look in Server Admin > Settings > Network, i have three interfaces listed: en0, en1 and ppp0 of family IPv4 with address 192.168.1.254 and DNS name controller.cluster.
The DNS server returns me timeouts when i try to do a dig from my VPN client even if i am able to access it directly from a computer inside or outside my private network.
After i disconnect, i can see in Server Admin that the IP address of my ppp0 interface has switch to my public IP address.
Then i can always establish a VPN (L2TP) connection, but the client receives the following informations:
Configure IPv4: Using PPP
IPv4 address: 192.168.1.202
Subnet Mask:
Router: (Public IP address of my VPN server)
DNS: 192.168.1.254
Search domain: cluster
From my VPN client, i can access all the other computers of my network (192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.18) but when i ping my gateway (192.168.1.254), it returns me timeouts.
I have two "lazy" solutions to this problem: 1) Configure VPN and DNS servers on two differents Xserve, 2) Put the public IP address of my gateway as DNS server address, but none of these solutions are acceptable for me…
Any help is welcome!!!

I would suggest taking a look at:
server admin:vpn:settings:client information:network route definitions.
as I understand your setup it should be something like
192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 private.
at least as a start. I just got done troubleshooting a similar issue but via two subnets:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2292827&tstart=0

Time machine to airdisk taking forever...maybe a gig an hour

So I set up my Airport Extreme Airdisk as a Time Machine disk. I started the first backup and its taking forever...if I am lucky its sending a gig an hour on an 802.11n machine.
Any thoughts?

It seems that Time Machine uses Apple's disk imaging mechanism.
The version of this in Leopard uses a helper app called diskimages-helper. You can see it in the process list of Activity Monitor when running Time Machine, Disk Utility or Carbon Copy Cloner disk imaging.
This app seems to have issues with images larger than around 80GB. I have now shown that whether started by Time Machine, Disk Utility or Carbon Cloner images between 120 and 200GB run flat chat (disk limited) for the first 80GB or so and then slow down dramatically.
How much data are you trying to backup?
On the upside, once the first copy is made. incremental Time Machine backups seem to be very fast. Perhaps if you set time Time Machine with enough exclusions to get the first image down to 80GB, it may be possible to add the rest later. I have not tried this.
On the topic of should you use an airdisk: I see that it is a requirement that the backup disk/share supports ACLs. I think Airdisk might be OK for data files, but probably will not restore a full working boot disk. Have you tried that?
Bill Northcott

Shared Services is taking forever to come up

Hello Experts,
One of my customer has an issue with Shared Services. They have intergrated Shared Services with Active Directory and want to pull users into a SS from a specific AD group. Right now its pulling all the users but Shared Services is taking forever to come up.
Environment:
Essbase version 9.3.1
OS : Win 2003 server SP1
Any inputs on this issue is appreciated. Thanks in advance
Regards,
Sonu

Hi,
Is the MSAD large, if so are you filtering down to a more specific area instead of looking at the whole AD.
Also have you tried applying patch :- 9.3.1.0.07 which addresses -
Shared Services made several calls to the user directory server (LDAP or MSAD) to build group and user cache, causing slow startup performance (Bug# 7144686). This fix significantly reduces the number of calls made to the user directory server to improve start up performance.
You can download it from metalink3
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

My Problems with Netboot, PPC iMacG5, 10.5.6, Leopard Server-Solved

Several contributors steps helped me out, in this archived thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1649502
I have added my own steps, for record, as I could not add to the archived thread.
Problem: OSX 10.5.6 Server, set to an "Octopus" configuration,
( Standalone server, hooked into a Cisco 2950 Switch, switch manages DHCP, keeps all traffic localized)
Hooked iMac G5 clients into switch. Set Server to netboot a PPC Leopard 10.5.6
image made from same iMac G5 client. Hooked six iMac G5's into the switch,
one fired off successfully, five all failed, going to Kernel Panic after first one
kicked off successfully. Tested scenario with 3 Intel MacBooks imaging
an intel MB 10.5.6 image, same server and switch, all deployed successfully.
Following a combination of Brian Neeson's and Kellefson's Steps:
1. Stop Netboot Service on Server.
2. Disable Netboot Shares, save changes
3. Launch Activity Monitor, stop nfsd service. ( Force Quit) It auto starts again
4. Re-enable Netboot Shares
5. Start Netboot Service, select PPC Image, Set to PPC Achitecture only, save changes
6. Reboot Leopard Server.
Issue is now resolved, and images deploy successfully, testing 2 PPC iMac G5s without fail.
Posting this so I can set a subscription to it ( so I can find it faster, I cannot set
a subscription to the archived post) and to help others with same issue.

Ok, I finally had some time to come back to this
and try out a few things.
One of the things that kept perplexing me about this was that only
PPC White iMac G5's, 1.6ghz models, were constantly affected by this issue.
I tried it looking at it from the server end: Recreated the Netboot NFS share point,
recreated the 10.5.6 image as a gold master, made sure all nbi's were in their proper
locales.
I tried looking at it from the iMac itself: swapping out Hard drives, Logic Boards,
Zappring PRAM, replacing and swapping out Ram, etc.
Finally after stepping away from it for a week to look at
InstaDMG, it dawned on me......
Josh, ( I believe) in his webinar, said that to build your
image using instaDMG, you should use Leopard 10.5 Retail disc as the
base of choice, and then put everything in as a package deployment
on top of that.
+So that got me to thinking, what if 10.5.6 was problematic for deployment,+
+but not so for updating the system in general?+
That got me to remembering that that wouldn't be the first time Apple
has released an update that screwed up NetInstalling
( 10.5.2, 10.4.10, and 10.3.4 come to mind).
*So I then decided to try a new test:*
I went back to a good known working no problems White iMac G5 PPC 1.6ghz machine,
wiped the HD, and installed 10.5.0 on it, and then put all my apps back on it.
I then updated every app and patched the Apple essentials ( Quicktime, Airport0
but did not update the OS.
I then Target FW'd it to my Xserve, and used Apple's SIU to create the image.
Then, I deployed it back to three iMacs in a row through the network.
Success! no KPs and the iMacs all flawlessly deployed.
I then tried another set of three, and success again....all three had no KP
at booting into Netinstall, and all three deployed successfully.
*So I believe that I have fixed my issue!*
My next test is to create an image that will post deploy the 10.5.6 combo update
to the iMacs after the 10.5.0 image is deployed, but even if I run into
problems there, My workaround will be just to deploy 10.5.0, and then
ARD out 10.5.6 combo after the machines have restarted and booted successfully.

After downloading the latest IOS 5 the syncing is taking forever..??

after installing my new IOS 5 i have been experiencing a problem in syncing ..... its taking forever to sync..

Is you Gmail an Exchange based one (so it will Push)? Is the other account (smtp is a type of server) an Exchange account? POP or iMAP?

New to Leopard Server

Hey everyone,
I'm really new to Leopard server and would like just a moment of your time to walk me through the setup process. I don't understand some of the installation steps.
What I want to do is use my mac mini as a server. I want to use all the features of Leopard Server. I would also like to be able to access my server from work.
My mac mini is connected via ethernet and I do not have a static ip address. I read that I might need a DNS. Where can I get one?
If anyone could help me with this, I would be forever grateful.
Really struggling here guys. Step by step instructions would be a great help too.
Thank you in advanced.

Hi
A good place to start is here:
http://support.apple.com/manuals/#serversandenterprisesoftware
You could consult this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7602817&#7602817
Might prove useful/informative? You don't 'get' DNS as such from anywhere if you don't want to. If all this server is ever going to do is 'serve' a private network (LAN) then you can make up your own. However:
+"I want to use all the features of Leopard Server"+
Would this mean Web/Mail/Wiki/Blog/Calendar Services? In which case you will need to purchase and register a public domain. One of your own choosing based on something memorable to you. There are hundreds of web-based companies offering to sell you a domain. Google for them. Here's one you could use:
http://www.123-reg.co.uk
Or consult this list:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=Domains&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
+"I would also like to be able to access my server from work"+
Ideally you should purchase a fixed external IP address as ultimately it will be better for you especially if you're planning to run your own mail server. If that's not possible use DynDNS:
http://www.dyndns.com/
However you may find some recipient mail servers rejecting mail coming from your domain if you go for this option? A quality 'pro-sumer' router/firewall would be advisable as well.
+"Step by step instructions would be a great help too"+
Yes that would be nice for the rest of us as well!! AFAIK there are no 'step-by-step instructions. Think about it - how could there be? Everyone's environment and requirements are different. What works for one may not necessarily work for another.
If this is something you want to do all yourself the best advice I can give you is to read as much as you can regarding not only OSX Server and the Mac platform but also other Server products/platforms, Routers, Firewalls, NAT, TCP/IP, Routing, Switches, Networks in general and at least some idea of how to use the command line. What I've mentioned is just to begin with.
You should also consider augmenting your skill set with some knowledge of scripting. It's a useful 'arrow' to have sometimes.
Tony

Select statement taking forever to run

i am running the select query with condition
where
stLetter Like '%abc%'
out of the table below,
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Please advise
k

Yes that query will take a very long time. First of all, the entire table has to be scanned. But only that, all those long strings have to be scanned. That is, SQL Server first looks at the first character in the string. If that character is not 'a',
it moves on to the next one and so on. If the character is 'a', it lingers there and looks at nest to see if it is 'b' and so on.
Exactly how long time this takes, depends on the collation. If the column is an nvarchar column, or you have a Windows collation, this means that the full rules of Unicode come at play, and they are quite expensive when the entire string needs to be scanned.
If you are looking for an exact match, that is, you don't want to match ABC or ábç, there is a way to speed up the query:
WHERE stLetter COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN2 Like '%abc%'
By using a binary collation, you can get a speed-up by a factor 10.
As long as want a match on a full word or at least the beginning of a word, you should look into full-text indexing. With full-text indexing and using CONTAINS rather than like, you can get very good performance.
If you want to match on a string like 'Here is a word that hasabcinthemiddle of it', there are still solutions, but they are heavy artillery. I've written about then in this book:
http://www.sqlservermvpdeepdives.com/
(All our royalties for the book goes to WarChild International.)
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [email protected]

Installing Snow Leopard Server From a USB Sticki

In my job, I install Snow Leopard and Snow Leopard Server three or four times a day.
With Snow Leopard, I've found it easiest to install from a USB stick. So, I did a restore from a DVD to a USB in Disk Utility and it's worked great.
With Snow Leopard Server, it is not so simple. When trying to install from a USB stick, I get "Mac OS X 10.6 Server Cannot Be Installed To This Machine." Though strangely, installing from the DVD is no problem.
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Am I missing a trick here?

Oddly enough it is working for me. I had some issues initially so I went out and bought ONE 16GB thumb-drive (major vendor) and partitioned into two partitions.
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Repair permissions taking forever

I repaired disk permissions and then
I installed Leopard without any problem.
Then did software updates.
Now, I'm repairing permissions again,
but this time it's taking forever to complete.
I've been stuck at "Repairing Permissions.Estimated time: calculating" for nearly 15 minutes and counting.
The progress bar next to this message is less that 1/4 in blue.
Is something wrong?!
please, say it isn't so!!
Message was edited by: teresita

Yes, repair permissions takes MUCH longer in Leopard. I've upgraded three systems and they all take what seems like 10 - 15 minutes (10.4.11 took less than one minute). Guess we were "spoiled" with previous versions

TM restore taking forever...

I am restoring from a clean install via a network drive and it is taking forever. Is it supposed to take this long?

See #29 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions for some rough guidelines.
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Apple mail 5.3 taking forever to load emails

I hae a Mac mini running Mail 5.3. I use only Gmail/Google apps emails. For the last 5 or 6 weeks, the app will take forever to load emails. The spinning weels next to each mailbox will be there for around an hour until it loads emails. Yes, I have lots of emails in the server (I use IMAP) but since the issue is new, I am concerned since I use the same accounts in a macbook air and I don't have to deal with this at all.
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Do the following:
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Boot from your Snow Leopard 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. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
2. Reinstall Snow Leopard
If the drive is OK then quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed with reinstalling OS X. Note that the Snow Leopard installer will not erase your drive or disturb your files. After installing a fresh copy of OS X the installer will move your Home folder, third-party applications, support items, and network preferences into the newly installed system.
Download and install the Combo Updater for the version you prefer from support.apple.com/downloads/.
Reinstalling Lion Without Erasing the Drive
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Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion and click on the Continue button.
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