Mac OS 10.6 Server w/ Deploy Studio

I need some help getting deploy studio working with 10.6 server and netbooting for re-imaging computer over 1Gbit.
If there is any one out there that has done this and can help me please let me know.. I am stuck and need to get this up and running

Well, for starters, what have you done so far? What works and what doesn't.
One issue I ran into was that I had to be logged in as root on the server in order to setup DeployStudio. Once it was setup, I could logout and login as an admin user, but the setup seemed to need root. Not sure if this is a common issue or if it will help you...in any event, I believe it should work just fine, but, back to my first question.
DeployStudio also has a good discussion page - you should check that out as well.

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10.6 Server, Deploy Studio for Macs, Fog for PCs

I've been banging my head on this problem for the last two days and am at the point that I'm going in circles. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
We have a mini server running 10.6.7. For a while now (8+ months) it has been our DHCP server and we have used deploy studio to deploy images to our Macs. So far, so good.
We decided to use deploy studio for PC deployment, and after some testing changed our minds and chose to switch our PC deployment to a fog server. This is where the trouble comes in.
I uninstalled deploy studio entirely, re-installed it without the PC components and re-configured it so it only responds to Macs. I also deleted all of its PC files.
When we try to network boot a PC, it appears they are STILL trying to connect to our mini server instead of the fog machine.
I've gone into the /etc/bootpd.plist and tried adding or modifying the following values in various configurations.
<key>dhcp_tftp_server_name</key>
<data>wKgBGQ==</data>
<key>dhcp_bootfile_name</key>
<string>pxelinux.0</string>
<key>dhcp_option_66</key>
<data>wKgBGQ==</data>
<key>dhcp_option_67</key>
<string>pxelinux.0</string>
wKgBGQ== is the encoded value of the fog server's IP address using "DHCP Option Code Utility". I also tried using it for the pxelinux.0 file option, with no change in the symptom or result.
As long as I use 1 of each of the options (i believe tftp_server_name is 66, and bootfile_name is 67), I can use IPNetMonitorX to query options 66 & 67 and I get the following:
Unrecognized DHCP option: 66 length: 4 value: 192.168.1.25
Unrecognized DHCP option: 67 length: 10 value: 7078656c 696e7578 2e30
If I put the 2nd line's value through a hex to ascii converter, I get pxelinux.0
No matter what, the PC's always give "TFTP Error - file not found".
Netboot and deploy studio still works for the Macs. I have no idea how to get the PCs to stop trying to connect to our mini server and look at the fog server instead.

I got a step further. I set option 128 (usually TFTP Server IP address) to the IP address of the fog server, and now 1 boot out of 5 or so, the PCs boot to the fog server.
It seems like the request is timing out too fast for some of the PCs, so now I'm trying to find that option.

Is it better to install windows on the same mac hard drive or use the second hard drive bay as it's own? Im also using deploy studio and am having trouble creating a workflow to assign the bay.

Have mac pros with 1tb drives in tem. Trying to figure out imaging via deploy studio.

For the easist install and problem solving having W7 on it's own disk would be the best way to go.
The only thing you need to do is either take out the lower # drives ahead of the future Windows disk or put the Windows HD in bay/slot #1. (or just take out all but the future W7 disk and install it manually works too)
The easiest way would be to put the W7 drive in slot slot/bay #1 then you can still use BC Assistant to install the drivers and such.
After the install you can have the Windows drive in any slot you want.
I'm not familier with Deploy Studio so can't help you beyond this.

Hi, I would like to know if is it possible to install windows on mac pro , because I need to have some application like SQL server and visual studio, and they could not be install on mac

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Windows on a Mac

Netboot - worked with Deploy Studio, now fails?

Hello everyone.
Up until now I've been using Deploystudio to manage all my builds, however I've decided to try out a Netinstall path instead. I have my Netinstall image created, it's a basic workflow but does include creation of some users, and removes access to printer drivers and languages on install. NFS is running, Netboot is running, and as I say up to now my Deploy Studio system on this exact machine has worked a charm.
Netinstall fails. The client (brand new Mac Mini 2010 Slim) connects to the server (boot with option, choose the Net install) and the server logs confirm this. No errors are shown in the logs as far as I can see. However, after 20-30 seconds I get the dreaded crossed out circle.
I'm creating my Net Install image from a locked DMG rather than optical media. The DMG was taken from a retail, non system specific DVD. I've added the client as an allowed system, server's been rebooted etc. Any ideas, things I should look for?
Thanks, A.

Sadly, there is no newer retail disk so, that option is out. You could, however, make a CPU specific install image for the mini by using the disk it came with (I'm assuming it came with a disk... which it may not have)

IChat Server - Moving from one Mac OSX 10.5 server to another

Hi
I have found and read several posts about migrating Mac OSX 10.4 iChat to Mac OSX 10.5, but that's not quite what I want to do. I have deployed a new Xserve on our network and have moved/migrated all services from my old Mac OSX 10.5 server to the new unit now, with the exception of iChat.
Does anyone know how I can move all of my existing users/settings across from one server to another? I don't really want to have to recreate all the set-up on the new server and it would be much easier if there was a way of moving the iChat Server from one server to another. iChat seems to install itself in lots of places on 10.5 server and I suppose I'm looking for somebody who can tell me which files/folders need to be moved over to the new unit in order for it to work.
Thanks in advance.
Paul

Paul,
stop the ichat server on both machines using:
sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jabber.jabberd.plist
make a backup of /etc/jabberd, /var/jabberd on the target machine
copy the contents of the directories /etc/jabberd and /var/jabberd from the source machine to the destination machine, ensuring that owners and file permissions are maintained.
restart the ichat server on the target machine thus:
sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jabber.jabberd.plist
and it should work. I say should 'cos I have never actually had a reason to do this, but there is no reason I can see that this will not work.
Note that this assumes that the user community (names) on the target machine are the same as the source, certificates if you use them are in the same place and, I guess it should go without saying, but the name of the ichat server and DNS names are the same. Note that DNS must be correct and pointing to the target machine.

Could someone advise on using deploy studio/net boot to mass net install

could someone advise on using deploy studio/net boot to mass net install software over a network. i know you first create a machine with all software on it, but then do you make an image with deploy studio? and deploy it from the xserve using deploy studio or do you do a netboot? what is the procedure for doing this kind of stuff?

Thanks for the replies.
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strLink = "http://MyServerName/businessobjects/enterprise115/InfoView/scripts/opendocument.aspx?sDoc=PhyCompProviderSummaryWindowwAD+Drill&sType=wid&sViewer=html&iDocid=5159141&sRefresh=Y"
Me.ifSummary.Attributes.Add("src", strLink)
ifSummary is the ID of the iframe control on my page.
This method does not require any BOE dlls to be installed on the web server. I can easily set the document name and ID in the path at runtime.
Mitch

Error in starting server from NetWeaver Studio

I get the following error when i start the server from NetWeaver studio. Any reason why this error pops up.
Problem Occurred:
Startting Server - SAP Server E<24> (Time of error.....)
Reason :
JsfOpenAdmin failed: object not found.
However I can start and stop the server from the management console.
thanks,
Sahir
Edited by: Sahir Pathan on Jul 14, 2008 5:29 PM
Edited by: Sahir Pathan on Jul 14, 2008 5:37 PM

Maybe when you are on netweaver studio, the instance number passed is the java one instead of the abap instance one :
sidadm> sapcontrol -nr 01 -function J2EEGetProcessList
27.02.2009 17:13:02
J2EEGetProcessList
OK
telnetPort, name, pid, type, restart, exitCode, state, startTime, elapsedTime, restartCount, errorCount, cpu, debug
0, SDM, 11557, SDM Server, Yes, , J2EE_RUNNING, Running, 2009 02 01 06:41:40, 634:31:22, 0, 0, 0:14:36, Switched off
50108, dispatcher, 11555, J2EE Dispatcher, Yes, , J2EE_RUNNING, Running, 2009 02 01 06:41:40, 634:31:22, 0, 0, 0:24:21, Disabled
0, server0, 11556, J2EE Server, Yes, , J2EE_RUNNING, Running, 2009 02 01 06:41:40, 634:31:22, 0, 0, 1:16:31, Disabled
sidadm> sapcontrol -nr 11 -function J2EEGetProcessList
27.02.2009 17:13:17
J2EEGetProcessList
FAIL: JsfOpenAdmin failed: object not found
sidadm>

I transferred files from a NAS server to the Mac Mini Snow Leopard Server and now some of the files have Custom Access and can't be opened by some users. How do I fix this?

We're setting up our Mac Mini Snow Leopard Server, and in the process transferred files that had been stored and accessed from our Blackarmor NAS server over to the Mac. These files were all created on PC's and are Office Excel files, WordPerfect files or PDF's. When you look at the files on the Mac from the Mac and bring up Get Info for the affected file, it says that the file has Custom Access. The files that work properly don't have that configuration. I can access and open the files on some computers, but some users can't open the files from their computer even though they can see it. We're all using PC's and they get the Error: Access Denied-Contact your administrator--or something similar. I've seen on the web similar issues and it may have something to do with ACL permissions. I don't know enough about Mac OS to understand this, but what is baffling is that they can be opened from some PC's but not others, and all of the Users have the same accessibility to the files. Thanks for a solution!!

Oh, on the losing Internet, try this...
Make a New Location, Using network locations in Mac OS X ...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2712
10.7 & 10.8…
System Preferences>Network, top of window>Locations>Edit Locations, little plus icon, give it a name.
10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x instructions...
System Preferences>Network, click on the little gear at the bottom next to the + & - icons, (unlock lock first if locked), choose Set Service Order.
The interface that connects to the Internet should be dragged to the top of the list.
Instead of joining your Network from the list, click the WiFi icon at the top, and click join other network. Fill in everything as needed.
For 10.5/10.6, System Preferences>Network, unlock the lock if need be, highlight the Interface you use to connect to Internet, click on the advanced button, click on the DNS tab, click on the little plus icon, then add these numbers...
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Click OK.
PS. Your English is quite good & completely understandable.

How do I set up my Time Machine and Mac Mini with Lion Server so i have one wifi loop in the house?

HELP!
So I have had a Time Machine wifi loop at the house for approx. 6 years. I run two Macbooks, 2 iPhones, 2 iTouch and a Samsung Smart Blueray on the loop.
I just bought a Mac Mini with Lion Server. When setting it up I'm not sure what or how I managed to do, but I now have 2 wifi loops, one doesn't lock and niether will support the Samsung BlueRay. Also, each time I want to go online with one of the other Mac devices i have to relog into the wifi loop.
Can someone please walk me through the fix. The mac Mini is plugged straight into the Time Machine to recevie its internet connection.
Thanks!
John

You often see this limit of 10 clients in wireless hotspots but I have yet to see it in an adsl modem.. most strange way to pay for a service that is really irrelevant how many clients you use.
Have a go .. I recently setup a TC to help a guy run his Roku.. and this setup worked well.. I have no idea if it can work in your case.
Lets say the IP you get is 192.168.2.1-10 .. doesn't matter what it really is. And the adsl modem is 192.168.2.254
(Assuming they are private addresses.. if they are public IP you can just use the DHCP and NAT. )
But go to the airport utility.. I think you need to run v5 at least to change DNS.. but you can do the same thing in v6 using static but no dns changes.
Now you set the IP of the TC manually.. This address might need to be in the dhcp range of the modem to work. You can set the DNS to same IP as the router address.. ie home address of the modem. Or you can use another DNS.. whatever you like.
Then set DHCP for clients that will join.. this can then expand the scope of addresses..
It worked without a NAT error.. although I am not sure exactly how.. on paper it should not be able to work but did.. have a go.. otherwise there is perhaps another way.. but it is complicated.
Give us an example from a computer plugged into the modem of what IP .. subnet mask .. Gateway and DNS you get. Then I can fine tune the values for it.

Can I use Mac Pro for a server?

I hope this is the right place to ask this....
I have an older Mac Pro G5 (10.5.8) Desktop. I cannot update it past Leopard. So now I have a newer MacBook Pro. I was wondering if I could utilize my old Mac Pro as some sort of "server"?
It has the origninal smaller drive but I added an additional 1TB SATA drive that is just sitting there doing nothing.
I rip a lot of movies to my MacBook Pro so I am already out of storage on it. I keep moving movie files to my Time Capsule (1TB) in which I have partitioined off 300MB to use for media storage.
I have an Apple TV that I connect to my MacBook Pro but when I'm gone, the family can't use the ATV.
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Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Ehren

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That said, you should be able to store your media on it, and share it to your AppleTV through iTunes, barring any incompatibilites with the older software. I haven't looked into the system requirements for home sharing in a while. You might want to take a quick check and make sure everything is good to go.

OS 10.4 clients cannot access Shared Mac folder on W2k Server - URGENT

We have a network of about 25 computers, 10 or so of them are Mac OS 10.4, the rest are Win XP Pro PCs. We have a server dedicated to file sharing. We basically have one main shared folder called "FILES". This is shared for PCs and Macs. Recently after a restart of the server (for regular maintenance), the Macs could not see the shared Mac volume (FILES), PCs could access the share without a problem. After a few minutes (15 or so) the Macs could all of a sudden see the share and
everything was fine.
However, we just restarted the server again and we're having the same issue again. The difference is, this time, after waiting for a few hours, the Macs still cannot see the Mac Share. The macs connect to the server via TCP/IP, the users use their usernames and passwords and can connect to the server, however, the only volume they see is the Micrsoft UAM volume.
When we created a different folder and shared it (through MMC), the Macs could see and access that one.
We get an Event ID 12061 in the System Event Log as the user tries to connect to the share. I found a Microsoft KB article, but no solution to the problem was given. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q136300/
Here are some things I have tried to remedy the issue, please keep in mind we cannot change the name of the share (FILES) becuase of the thousands of file mappings in quark, etc.:
Again Restarted Server
Stopped Sharing the folder, then reshared it
Stopped sharing the folder
Uninstalled / Reinstalled Appletalk Protocol from network adapter
Uninstalled / Reinstalled File Services for Macintosh [Restarted]
Uninstalled / Reinstalled Appletalk Protocol from network adapter again [Restarted]
Reshared the folder
Created a new mac share called TEST (Macs could see and access)
Moved data from Files to TEST, now Macs could not see TEST
Moved data back to FILES
Created a folder called FILES2, moved data from FILES to FILES2
Stopped sharing FILES (PC and Mac), renamed FILES to FILES1
Renamed FILES2 to FILES (Macs could not see volume)
It seems as though the problem is with an individual file or two, which sort of corresponds the what Microsoft has written regarding the error.
Has anyone had any experience with this issue? Any insight or solution to this issue is greatly appreciated.
Thank you!

It's very important to be as specific as possible when discussion network service access. In your question, it sounds like you want the macs to attach to FILES using SMB/CIFS, but you also call it a Mac share, so it's not obvious if you mean an AFP share or just a share for Macs to use.
You should know that the Macs can connect to either AFP or SMB volumes, and they can browse for SMB over TCP/IP and AFP over both TCP/IP and Appletalk (Appletalk must be turned on and browsing active in Directory Access).
Connecting via SMB to a volume hosted on Windows2K or higher server will fail with the default settings, which require secure connections not supported by Mac OS X (because Samba doesn't support it). To overcome that problem, see this article:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030922153448490&query=-5000
(scroll down to one of the top-level replies, which explains in detail how to deactivate secure connections)
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How do I create a view in SQL Server in Visual Studio Express 2013 for Desktop?

Hi
I've got a SQL Server database set up using the internal SQL Server in Visual Studio Express 2013 for Desktop. I want to create a view (using tables with one to many relationships) but I don't
know how to do it.
Where can I find a good tutorial on creating views in SQL Server in Visual Studio Express 2013 for Desktop? I think Visual Studio Express 2013 for Desktop doesn't have some view designer that
exists in the non-express version of Visual Studio (if I'm not mistaken). So I think I'd need a tutorial on how to do the actual SQL, unless there is some tool I don't know about.
Thanks

Hi ,
According to your description, if you install SQL Server SQL Server 2014 Express and SQL Server Manager Studio tools (SSMS), if you want to create a view, you can use SSMS. Then if you want to connect to and Diagram your SQL Express Database in Visual Studio
2013, you can attach the database file by using the .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server in Visual Studio, and create a database diagram via expanding the “Database Diagrams” node.
For more information, there is similar issue about how to connect to and Diagram your SQL Express Database in Visual Studio 2012 , you can review the following article,
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/archive/2011/10/27/how-to-connect-to-and-diagram-your-sql-express-database-in-visual-studio-lightswitch.aspx.
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SQL Server 2012 Management Studio:In the Database, how to print out or export the old 3 dbo Tables that were created manually and they have a relationship for 1 Parent table and 2 Child tables?How to handle this relationship in creating a new XML Schema?

Hi all,
Long time ago, I manually created a Database (APGriMMRP) and 3 Tables (dbo.Table_1_XYcoordinates, dbo.Table_2_Soil, and dbo.Table_3_Water) in my SQL Server 2012 Management Studio (SSMS2012). The dbo.Table_1_XYcoordinates has the following columns: file_id,
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Problem #1) How can I print out or export these 3 dbo Tables?
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I get this problem fixed in my PC that is an end user of the Windows 7 LAN System? Note: I don't have the regular version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 in my PC. I just have the Microsoft 2012 Shell (Integrated) program in my PC.
Problem #3: I plan to create an XML Schema Collection in the "APGriMMRP" database for the Parent Table and the Child Tables. How can I handle the relationship between the Parent Table and the Child Table in the XML Schema Collection?
Problem #4: I plan to extract some results/data from the Parent Table and the Child Table by using XQuery. What kind of JOIN (Left or Right JOIN) should I use in the XQuerying?
Please kindly help, answer my questions, and advise me how to resolve these 4 problems.
Thanks in advance,
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In the future, I would recommend you to post your questions one by one, and to the appropriate forum. Of your questions it is really only #3 that fits into this forum. (And that is the one I will not answer, because I have worked very little with XSD.)
1) Not sure what you mean with "print" or "export", but when you right-click a database, you can select Tasks from the context menu and in this submenu you find "Export data".
2) I don't know why you get that error, but any particular reason you want to run PowerShell?
4) If you have tables, you query them with SQL, not XQuery. XQuery is when you query XML documents, but left and right joins are SQL things. There are no joins in XQuery.
As for left/right join, notice that these two are equivalent:
SELECT ...
FROM   a LEFT JOIN b ON a.col = b.col
SELECT ...
FROM   b RIGHT JOIN a ON a.col = b.col
But please never use RIGHT JOIN - it gives me a headache!
There is nothing that says that you should use any of the other. In fact, if you are returning rows from parent and child, I would expect an inner join, unless you want to cater for parents without children.
Here is an example where you can study the different join types and how they behave:
CREATE TABLE apple (a int    NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
b varchar(23) NOT NULL)
INSERT apple(a, b)
   VALUES(1, 'Granny Smith'),
   (2, 'Gloster'),
   (4, 'Ingrid-Marie'),
   (5, 'Milenga')
CREATE TABLE orange(c int NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
d varchar(23) NOT NULL)
INSERT orange(c, d)
   VALUES(1, 'Agent'),
   (3, 'Netherlands'),
   (4, 'Revolution')
SELECT a, b, c, d
FROM   apple
CROSS JOIN orange
SELECT a, b, c, d
FROM   apple
INNER JOIN orange ON apple.a = orange.c
SELECT a, b, c, d
FROM   apple
LEFT   OUTER JOIN orange ON apple.a = orange.c
SELECT a, b, c, d
FROM   apple
RIGHT OUTER JOIN orange ON apple.a = orange.c
SELECT a, b, c, d
FROM   apple
FULL OUTER JOIN orange ON apple.a = orange.c
go
DROP TABLE apple, orange
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [email protected]

How do I get Mac Pro with Lion Server to restart at a set time when users are connected?

I have recently configured a Mac Pro with Lion Server, and have set it to restart automatically every morning at 3am. When I arrive in the morning, I notice that it has not rebooted, usually because it states there are users connected. Is there a way to automatically disconnect users so that the machine will reboot. No one is ACTIVELY connected at this time of the morning, but may still be logged in somewhere. I did see where I can log out users after a set period of time when using Workgroup Manager to manage a computer or computer group, but I don't use the server to manage all of the computers that have users log in.
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Well, it doesn't necessarily have to be each and every night, but it was for the sole purpose of preventing sluggishness. We had it set up before, as Snow Leopard Server and it would restart every night. It would occasionally be slow and need rebooting, however a manual reboot was not possible by most people in the store as they did not have credentials to screen share and restart it - which would result in holding down the power button to shut it down.
The server is used for the sole purpose of logging in about 50 users just so they can customize their experience, as well as saving items to their own home folders. The store is closed during the night, and there is no reason anyone would be accessing it during the night.

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