Snow Leopard - Server 2008 AD

Hi there,
having mega issues with Snow Leopard connecting to Server 2008 AD,
setting screen shot and error message are here, http://public.me.com/timace
any bright ideas appreciated
regards
Tim

Windows server is DNS Server, also DHCP, File, Print, AD. Windows boxes connect fine as do linux, just not SL, unfortunatly we bought family packs of SL and upgraded all machines, bit of a silly thing to do now i think of it, but it wasn't me on shift, ARGH!!!
I think i need to post on a Windows Server 2008 forum about DNS, i am now certain this is the issue not snow leopard, could be to do with WINS also.
Thanks for the help, if you know of any good free windows forums it would be great!!!
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Snow Leopard - Server 2008 AD issues

Hi there,
having mega issues with Snow Leopard connecting to Server 2008 AD,
setting screen shot and error message are here, http://public.me.com/timace
any bright ideas appreciated
regards
Tim

Anyone?

Snow Leopard - Server 2008 AD connection issues

Hi there,
sorry to post here it's just you guys seem to have better knowledge of networking and since there is no specific AD section it was here i posted, Sorry!
having mega issues with Snow Leopard connecting to Server 2008 AD,
setting screen shot and error message are here, http://public.me.com/timace
any bright ideas appreciated
regards
Tim

Try just soulstinger.com as the AD Domain value. Also, did you confirm that DNS and time are working properly. They are the primary causes of failure. Use a local time server on your LAN, probably the domain controller.
Also, you can put DirectoryServices into a debug state and get better information from the bind attempt. Do the following before you attempt to bind:
sudo killall -USR1 DirectoryService
This will create a new log file in /Library/Logs/DirectoryService called DirectoryService.debug.log. Watch that file using tail or Console and filter for errors.
Hope this helps

Using ms office 2008 for mac home & student edition with snow leopard serv

Hi all,
I have a very particular question.
I have a new small business starting up and we want to make full use of leopard and snow leopard server in our infrastructure. We also want to use os x for all our client machines.
We want to use ms office 2008 for mac as our main offfice software but i believe we don't need all the uses or festures of the business edtion and i need to seek good advice and clarity on this.
We won't ever use any microsoft exchange servers but instead willl use the apple mail servers and all the other apple server services.
My question is, based on the fact that we will have an all apple mac os x backend and client frontend but want to use the ms office for mac as our business software, and also based on the fact that we wont use the "Build your Brand clip art, Build your skills by lynda.com, the Remote Desktop for mac 2, the Microsoft Exchange Server Support and the Microsoft Windows sharepoint services support, do we really need to go for the business edition? Can we not just use the home and student edition and get the same functionality using everything else apart form what we listed as we wont need these?
The other question is, the Entourage 2008, Web services Edition, will this work with an apple backend instead of ms exchange server?
Kind regards and thanks for your wise advice,
Neil Watson

Thanks, Kurt--I understand now.
One reason I was alarmed was that evidently when the tech installed Office 2008, something went awry with either the key installer or the key code, because when I finished the first two updates (12.1 and 12.2), I tried to open Entourage to see if the problem I'd been having was resolved. Instead of opening, Office gave me a message that my product key was invalid! I did find the product key, and called the tech, who will come by to see what's wrong (he's an honest guy, so I'm sure it's a legitimate error of some kind, not a pirated copy). But the thought of installing two pages of updates and maybe running into the same glitch every time made me blanch. So I'm glad to know that Microsoft is still doing Service Packs for 2008!

New Snow Leopard Server, Slow Network Accounts

We've installed Snow Leopard Server on our XServe quite a while ago and since then all users who work with network accounts are complaining about serious perfomance issues. These issues are for instance logins which may very well take up to several minutes, or applications like Adobe InDesign which take their time to load files from the users network shares.
Our System consist of:
1 XServe running OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Server
48 iMacs running OS X 10.5
1 Windows Server 2008
The XServe serves as an OpenDirectory and Fileserver, while the Windows Server delivers DNS.
We have created ~500 users and 25 groups in the OpenDirectory. All user files are located in their roaming profiles on the Xserve. Additionaly every user has access to one group folder, which is located on the Xserve as well.
All group folders are Sharepoints and added to the dock of all users in the appropriate group.
I have already checked DNS settings, user accounts, network connectivity in general, network load during peak hours, the ACLs on the group folders....
By now im simply out of ideas what my cause the problem, let alone how to solve it.
Any hints are greatly appreciated.

Are you using any redirections? Redirecting the cache folder from the network home to the /tmp should improve speed. Use this white paper from apple. http://images.apple.com/education/docs/Apple-ClientManagementWhitePaper.pdf The redirections are on page 53.

Where to buy Snow Leopard Server? OEM okay?

All,
I have half a dozen XServe (late 2008 machines) to upgrade from Leopard Server to Snow Leopard Server. I have been investigating how to go about doing this and have a couple of questions:
1) does Apple still sell this software? If so, how the heck to I order it? Searching for Apple software in the Store is an exersize in futility!
2) I've found several suppliers of OEM versions of Snow Leopard Server for impossibly low prices. I have installation media, I simply need the license keys; is this a good route to go?
Thanks for the feedback, everyone!
-Brian

1) does Apple still sell this software? If so, how the heck to I order it? Searching for Apple software in the Store is an exersize in futility!
This is a question a lot of people have. There's no clear answer, other than Apple don't seem to offer it any more.
2) I've found several suppliers of OEM versions of Snow Leopard Server for impossibly low prices. I have installation media, I simply need the license keys; is this a good route to go?
There is no such thing as an OEM version of Snow Leopard Server - or of any Mac OS X System.
Since Apple develop and sell both the software and the hardware, there's no OEM market - it's not like you can buy a Dell or a HP with Mac OS X installed (which would be an OEM version of Mac OS X for Dell or HP).
Therefore, any site offering an OEM version of Mac OS X is absolutely, definitely, 100% a scam.
At best they're reselling older copies (which is questionable), at worst they're a malware farm trying to con you into installing fake software, or charging you for something they can't deliver.

Small problem: how using "Remote Desktop" on Snow Leopard Server

Hello,
How can I login to the Mac Mini Snow Leopard Server from 2 different Macs ?
Before I bought my Mac Mini Server in July, I asked the Apple Support if Snow Leopard Server has the equivalent of the Windows Remote Desktop functionality. He told me that it is possible. He did not tell me how, but I believed him.
I cannot find it in the documentation. Only 1 person can use screensharing. But I need more than 1 person working on the Mac OS X Server.
I moved our Photo library to the Mac OS X Server. With filesharing it takes 5 minutes to start iPhoto on our client iMac ( 1Gbps network). That is unworkable. So, from more iMacs users have to login to the server and start iPhoto on the server.
Thanks for the solution.
Hubert Anemaat

As per Jason's reply, there are two Terminal Server products available for Mac OS X. I have been testing both, both work in the same sort of way and will allow multiple simultaneous users to connect.
The typical approach is to (obviously) first to install one of these Terminal Server programs on your server. Then you (ideally) need another server hosting your Mac network home directories, and it needs to share the network home directories via NFS rather than AFP.
Note: Due to the way Mac OS X handles mounting AFP shares, you cannot have two users using the same share at the same time as the login defines the privileged's and the first logins privileged's would not be suitable for the second user, this is also why you cannot use "Fast User Switching" with two network login accounts when using AFP.
So, a client uses an RDC client (e.g. the free Microsoft Remote Desktop Client) to connect to the Terminal Server, this initiates a network login which access the users home directory via NFS.
RDC client (Mac or PC) ------> Mac Terminal Server <------ Mac network home directories
I have not tried iPhoto, but have tried various other applications, e.g. FileMaker, AppleScript, Microsoft Office 2004, etc. and the only problem I have hit so far is that Visual Basic in Office 2004 generates errors but Word and Excel otherwise work. Remember Office 2008 does not support Visual Basic (i.e. Macros).
I would actually expect iPhoto to work for multiple users as long as you use NFS. Using NFS for network home directories rather than AFP has actually 'fixed' a couple of badly written applications that had problems with AFP based network home directories, e.g. Adobe Acrobat 9.
I am using Mac OS X 10.6.4 Servers.

Console errors on startup OS X Snow Leopard Server, log files and pkgutil

I have OS X Snow Leopard Server running and there are a number of annoying console messages at startup and subsequent to that. A group of them appear to be related to write permissions for log file (last group). Not so sure about 1-3 below, if they are just warnings or something to worry about.
1. 2/14/10 12:56:56 PM com.apple.emailrules1292 /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/zope /_init_.py:1: UserWarning: Module twisted was already imported from /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/_init_.pyc, but /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python is being added to sys.path
2. 2/14/10 12:56:56 PM com.apple.emailrules1292 2010-02-14 12:56:56-0600 [-] /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/mail/smtp.py:10: exceptions.DeprecationWarning: the MimeWriter module is deprecated; use the email package instead
3. 2/14/10 12:57:00 PM com.apple.wikid1294 /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/calendarserver/tap/caldav.py:49: DeprecationWarning: mktap and related support modules are deprecated as of Twisted 8.0. Use Twisted Application Plugins with the 'twistd' command directly, as described in 'Writing a Twisted Application Plugin for twistd' chapter of the Developer Guide.
4. Several related to permissions for writing to log files it appears:
2/14/10 12:57:02 PM com.apple.passwordreset1295 2010-02-14 12:57:02-0600 [-] Failed to load application: Errno 13 Permission denied: '/Library/Logs/passwordreset/debug.log'
2/14/10 12:56:57 PM com.apple.emailrules1292 Failed to load application: Errno 13 Permission denied: '/Library/Logs/emailrules/debug.log'
2/14/10 12:57:01 PM com.apple.wikid1294 IOError: Errno 13 Permission denied: '/Library/Logs/wikid/error.log'
The pkgutil also gives a bunch of errors at startup related to Office 2008 files.
2010-02-14 13:48:38.361 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Citrix online plug-in.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.366 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008enautomator.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.368 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008en_automatorworkflow.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.369 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008enautoupdate.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.370 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008enclipart.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.371 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008encore.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.372 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008endock.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.373 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008enentourage.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.374 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008en_entourage_helpstd.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.375 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008enequationeditor.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.376 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008enerrorreporting.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.377 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008enexcel.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.378 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008en_excel_helpstd.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.379 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008enfonts.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.380 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008engraph.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.381 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008enhelpviewer.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.382 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008enlaunch.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.383 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008enmessenger.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.384 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008enooxml.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.385 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008enorgchart.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.386 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008enpowerpoint.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.387 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008en_powerpoint_helpstd.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.388 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008en_proofingbrazilian.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.389 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008en_proofingdanish.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.390 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008en_proofingdutch.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.391 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008en_proofingenglish.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.392 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008en_proofingfinnish.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.393 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008en_proofingfrench.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.394 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008en_proofinggerman.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.395 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008en_proofingitalian.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.396 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008en_proofingjapanese.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.397 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008en_proofingnorwegian.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.398 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008en_proofingportuguese.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.408 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008en_proofingspanish.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.409 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008en_proofingswedish.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.410 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008enrequired.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.411 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008ensilverlight.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.412 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008ensounds.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.413 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008enword.pkg
2010-02-14 13:48:38.414 pkgutil3679:903 PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/Office2008en_word_helpstd.pkg

I have similar messages to your 1-3 in my console log as well. Haven't tracked down why yet.

Can't rename folders on Snow Leopard Server

I have 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Server running on a new Mac Mini server. Attached I have a Pegasus Raid storing all my files. I have a sharepoint set up for every project we work on but a couple act strangely. Users can create and delete folders but can not rename them once created. In order to rename they must drag the folder onto the desktop, rename and then replace the folder on the server. All permissions are set up identical to the other sharepoints which work fine. I have had a couple so-called "experts" look at the permissions in both the terminal and Server Admin. Everyone seems stumped. Any ideas?

Thanks for the input but I finally soved the problem. Here is what I found...
Although I had given users/group the ALLOW/FULL CONTROL premission with a sharepoint, I discovered that in Server Admin if you double-click on the User or Group name under the ACL permissions that a drop down box appears. This box allows you to fine tune the ACL but it appears that by default all of the boxes are not checked even though I granted the user Full Control. After checking all of the boxes I was able to create and rename folders in my share as expected.
This also had an similar effect if I denied Full Control. Some of the boxes remained unchecked and it left holes in my system where denied users could still access some files. Again by checking all boxes these holes were closed.
Does anyone know how to change the default so that all boxes are checked when assigning the Full Control permission?

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.

Setting up Snow Leopard Server with Address Book, iCal for Small Business

Hello Folks,
I have a small business with 2-3 people and I want to setup Snow Leopard Server on a Mac Mini. I have everything in place, RAID, Backup drive etc.
What I need is a guide on how to setup the server correctly and how to setup Address Book Server, iCal Server, DNS, etc. I was in IT a long while back but have gone back to my creative roots and sworn off IT but I am in a situation where my IT guy's wife is pregnant so he is busy painting the baby's room, etc.
I was looking at Snow Leopard Server for Dummies and a few other books. Do you guys have any suggestions on resources for me to read or research that would give me very straightforward steps in getting this setup. I am at a point where I can re-install from scratch if needed.
For the ease of those that might respond let's assume I know my way around Mac and general networking as a whole.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Cheers,
Jason

Hi Guys,
First of, I will give you a brief background on me regarding networking as a mac user since 1994. I can setup and network multiple macs without a server in our home and small office. Turning file, print and internet sharing with a regular Mac OS X client version at no problem at all. This would be my first time setting up a Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server.
I'm in the same boat as Jakekub but we do not have a static IP from our DSL provider. We just bought a Mac Mini Server for our small office with 3 iMacs and 1 MacBook. We will just use the server for internal usage and to centralized things out and use some of server's features like Address Book, Mail, iCal etc. I've search the forums and found Orhidy's post here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2148553
I even followed the sample IP Address, Subnet Mask, Router, DNS Server and I think I had it correctly setup initially. And I think I got it all running on the basic setup base on his instructions. So I tried to test my DNS settings via Terminal > hostname then got answer as
servername.companyname.private
And double checking DNS again with a command: sudo changeip - checkhostname and was given an answer of:
Primary address = 192.168.1.192
Current Hostname = servername.companyname.private
DNS Hostname = servername.companyname.private
The names match. There is nothing to change
dirserv:success = "success"
But here's another one that bugs me. I tried to follow from "Mac OS X Snow Leopard for Dummies" the command line:
NSLOOKUP hostname
and got an answer of:
;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 192.168.1.192, trying next server
Server: 192.168.1.1
Address: 192.168.1.1#53
** server can't find hostname: NXDOMAIN
So does it mean that I still haven't configured my server properly?
Thank you all for the help in advance!
dive

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.

Time Machine on Snow Leopard Server

I would like to setup a backup service using Time Machine of a Mac Pro Snow Leopard Server (10.6.5) to an external hard drive connected with USB. Are there any gotcha's with this type of setup that I need to be aware of? My faint memory recalls an issue with Time Machine backing up a server.
The server is mainly used for file sharing in a small (<10) person office.

Are you backing-up the clients, or the server, or both?
Like most folks here, I'm not very familiar with the Server product, but I understand TM can do either or both.
You may find better advice in the Server forums, at: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=96

How to resolve network issue or dns to access web page on snow leopard server?

I have my network setup like as follows:
internet > router 1 > ethernet ports > switch > router 2
I have a mac osx snow leopard server connected to "router 1", but it is so slow when accessing a web page hosted on the server from a browser on a workstation connected to either router 1 or router 2?
Is there a problem with my network setup or maybe because I changed the name to newservername.local?

@Jeff and @Camelot,
I think it is a DNS issue. I completely reset the DNS settings on server and the local name with the steps below, but now cannot access the site hosted on the server at all
I used a modified version of http://www.mkahn.com/2010/09/configuring-dns-on-mac-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard-serve r-for-hosting/ to reset the server set
1. Stop DNS Service in Server Admin
2. Close Server Admin
3. Obtain 10.6 DNS Default files (below)
4. Overwrite the DNS files with DNS Default files:
/etc/dns/loggingOptions.conf.apple
/etc/dns/options.conf.apple
/etc/dns/publicView.conf.apple
/var/named/named.ca/etc/named.conf
/var/named/named.local
/var/named/localhost.zone
5. Restart your server
All machines have 1ms ping responses within the network including this snow leopard server that I am trying to setup. There is another test web server that return pages instantly within this network so I doubt it is a network issue, but a DNS issue.

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

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