Leopard vs PC server

We are a team of 10 graphic designer working on a PC network
I've installed leopard on my computer only, to make sure it's stable...
Answer is NO, not yet for the kind of work we do : pre-press, joggling with many client and many fonts...
Here's my problems
FONTS PROBLEM at opening: conflict with system font, should I disable or remove this font...
Where do I remove it ? User-computer-system-suitcase fusion? Anywhere else?
SHARING documents on the SERVER
All illustrator document are .exe, can't dble-click to open need to open by application
Cannot copy document on the server : not sufficient privilege
Cannot save .eps on the server?
Do we really need to put extension?
Is there any protocol I need to do to make my computer "talk" to my server without any problem?

I'm back with 10.4.10
Too much unsolved problem with Leopard
Let me know when all problem are fixed with a windows server and I'll be happy to work with it again!

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Can I install Mac OS X Leopard (not the server version) on a Xserve and run BootCamp (to use Windows), and other Mac applications like FileMaker, Toast, iWork, e.g.?
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Hi there, I've been working on this problem for a few hours now (and a few hours last Thursday) and don't feel I'm getting anywhere, so I'm reaching out for help....
My organisation has just purchased a new MacBook Pro, running Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6) and as a Technical Support Engineer I have been asked to configure it for an end user.
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Many many thanks,

Hi there,
A simple suggestion , please make sure both MacBook Pro clock and the server clock are the same meaning the hour/Min/ sec both should match. A least difference of 3 seconds is fine.
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Hi
It's easy enough to 'connect' any version of OS X Server to any other version of OS X Server. Use the Join button in the Users & Groups Preferences Pane. Alternatively use the Directory Utility itself.
You seem to be misunderstanding what an Open Directory Master and Replica are? They are not what I think you think they are. They are not a 'back-up' of each other if you're providing more than the shared Directory Service.
An OD Replica maintains a read-only copy of the LDAP Database (Usernames, Passwords and Policies etc) that's stored on the OD Master and nothing more. If the Master was to go offline for any reason the Replica can be quickly promoted to a Master Role and continue to provide information for the shared directory. This assumes it has easy and quick access to the Volume storing networked home folders? The LDAP Database in that case would then become writable. Later on and whenever you've fixed the problem with the old Master it can quickly be demoted and made a Replica of the now new Master.
Although this is for 10.6 Server (it is nevertheless still applicable) everything you need to know about Master and Replica relationships is here:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/OpenDirAdmin_v10.6.pdf
Page 55 onwards.
From Page 64:
"The Open Directory master and its replicas must use the same version of Mac OS X Server. . ."
If your OD Master is also providing Mail, Calendar and Contact Services then none of these will be replicated. You will have to maintain a backup of these databases yourself using whatever method you deem fit for your needs.
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My wife is considering a MacBook Pro for her business (we have one at home). At her work they have Exchange Server. With our home MacBook Pro I have been able to connect to her Exchange server through Entourage. (however I think her Exchange server is version 4 and not 7). Anyway, we are getting mail, contacts and her calendar through Exchange but we are not getting shared calendars and I don't know how to access her files on the Exchange server. I really want her to buy a MacBook but we need to make sure that shared calendars and file sharing works. Can someone inform me about this?
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Hi,
Question 1: Can you confirm if the VNC server in Snow Leopard works out of the box, once Screen Sharing and the VNC password are set up in Preferences? I am trying to connect from RealVNC from Windows XP.
Question 2: Does anyone have any idea how to reliably get an L2TP VPN working from Snow Leopard over a 3G connection? If I can get a working answer to Q2, then I don't care about Q1.
The Back-Story...
I am trying to get access to my iMac desktop through a VPN running over 3G. I would rather use dial-up because it is easier and quicker (in that by the time I get this mess running I could have finished my life's work and retired) but something inside keeps saying that it should all Just Work.
For those who are amused by the misfortune of others, the VPN connects from my Snow Leopard laptop, but it will not pass traffic. No pings, no nothing. I tried to add a route sending all 192.168 traffic down the hose, but my reward was the grey curtain of death and an OS X reboot.
Anyway, I have given up on the whole 3G thing from Snow Leopard - it is so unpredictable that it gets embarrassing when other (Windows) people are looking on.
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I get it to take over the 3G usb thingo, and it creates a VPN first time, and I can access the web server on the iMac through it. I could probably even get it to share files if I spent half a day on it (Oh, right... I forgot - It Just Works... barely.) However, what I need to be able to do is see the iMac screen from the laptop. If the **** routing would work, I could use Apple's Screen Sharing, but it doesn't so I have to use VNC from the Windows VM.
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When I try to connect using RealVNC, I enter the host name, I get another window asking for the password, then when I hit Enter, I get a bright flash of dark as VNC seems to open a screen window then ka-foopa - it is gone. In Task Manager, the client has disappeared.
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_Active Connections_
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Output from netstat -rn on the client machine indicates that the only active networks are en2 (the USB 308) and lo0. There are no 192.168 routes listed in the routing table.
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PPTP
We don't use PPTP because (a) Microsoft cooked it up, and (b) L2TP over IPSEC is said to be solidly secure. However I have just taken it for a spin and it is working. So it is a fallback. It can be argued that PPTP must be OK because so many people use it, but you can say that about Windows too, and I won't believe you.
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Of course it could be the router. Any company that calls itself Billion is suspect from the the outset, no?
I will shake their tree and see if they will confess to anything.
Russ.

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Francine
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What is the application you are talking about?
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What is the model of the Mac your are using as as server?
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Mac=Macintosh.

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I have a old but good powerBook G4, which can't accept Snow Leopard. The best version it can run is Leopard. I purchased a brand new macMini server with Lion server. Can I manage (accounts, home directories,...) my Powerbook G4 with my server ?
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Hello,
Thanks for your help.
I'm always a bit surprised by the lack of compatibility between osx versions that are not really so different in ages.
I used Macintoshs since the early days of Lisa. I think that I can be considered as an Apple fan.
But, if I remember well, OsX is open source based. The open source world is based on transparency and openess. And, even while using a osx server 10.7 (when a Linux one would be sufficient technically, but Apple changes continuously the way clients authentify themselves), I cannot use it with a 10.5 client. Apple MUST clearly learn what upward compatibilty means. A concept that Linux, Windows, and many others apply.
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When I try to log in with SSH I get this error +'Could not chdir to home directory /home/user: Input/output error'+
When I try to ls the home, it's empty. I wonder why the mounted home directory appears to be empty?
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Now I have to use Mac OS X Tiger Server Software Update Server and OSX Tiger Client.
After installing OS X Tiger Server software update, I turned on the server and on apdaty do I download and have been prepared. OS X Tiger has found his client software update server, and everything worked.
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I apologize for my incorrect English

The Tiger systems must have some form of customization. SWU is not an auto-discover service. If you have one of the Tiger systems still available, enter both of these commands and report the results:
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Most Applications intended to run in that fashion would provide a Mac client, a Windows client and a Server component, designed to interact and keep a Master database on the Server up-to-date. Custom database software could also be written for that environment. Perehaps there are options for your package to be used in that fashion, but it would have to be designed-in from the beginning.
A web Application could also run in that fashion, with only a Web Browser on each computer interfacing to the Server software, which would keep the Master database and allow multiple access over your local Network.

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