Test Drive OS X Server - VPN, Subnets, User Management

Is there a place I can test drive osx server? I don't want to purchase expensive server os and hardware and find out it will not do what I want.
What I want to do is setup VPN so road warriors can connect securely and surf the internet through the vpn connection. I want to setup multiple subnets so users are separated from each other for security reasons.
I look forward to your insight.

I'm not aware of an organization that provides a test-drive for Mac OS X Server, though there might be a related one-on-one or business-oriented class available (for free or for a fee) at a local Apple store.
VPNs are easily feasible with Mac OS X Server, and a VPN client is built into Mac OS X. That written, there are a gazillion different interpretations of "VPN" and of "road warrior"; protocols and requirements and clients and access patterns and security requirements can and do differ.
Subnets are standard IP, and fully available. Subnets are intended to control routing and are not intended for security. Here a case of obscurity than of security, unless enforced at the switches and possibly through switch-level VPNs and/or encryption -- subnetting is quite certainly functional, but not something I would rely on for security. Various malware and many users are fully aware of how to sniff a LAN, after all.
US$500 (10 client) is not expensive for a server operating system FWIW, and Mac OS X Server can be installed on most any Mac system. US$500 and US$1000 (unlimited client) is a small fraction of other widespread choices in the market. One I'm familiar with is US$900 per core plus hardware, and another starts in the low US$2000 range, plus hardware. But yes, taking the plunge with an Xserve and an unlimited client will set you back some US$3000, or more.
If you're specifically looking for VPN capabilities and subnetting, there are potentially hardware-based solutions available. These are hardware devices (switches and routers) that provide the subnetting, and that can provide a firewall with VPN capabilities. These embedded and dedicated devices do not provide the rest of what Mac OS X Server provides, however.

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Hello,
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I'm not aware of an organization that provides a test-drive for Mac OS X Server, though there might be a related one-on-one or business-oriented class available (for free or for a fee) at a local Apple store.
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Subnets are standard IP, and fully available. Subnets are intended to control routing and are not intended for security. Here a case of obscurity than of security, unless enforced at the switches and possibly through switch-level VPNs and/or encryption -- subnetting is quite certainly functional, but not something I would rely on for security. Various malware and many users are fully aware of how to sniff a LAN, after all.
US$500 (10 client) is not expensive for a server operating system FWIW, and Mac OS X Server can be installed on most any Mac system. US$500 and US$1000 (unlimited client) is a small fraction of other widespread choices in the market. One I'm familiar with is US$900 per core plus hardware, and another starts in the low US$2000 range, plus hardware. But yes, taking the plunge with an Xserve and an unlimited client will set you back some US$3000, or more.
If you're specifically looking for VPN capabilities and subnetting, there are potentially hardware-based solutions available. These are hardware devices (switches and routers) that provide the subnetting, and that can provide a firewall with VPN capabilities. These embedded and dedicated devices do not provide the rest of what Mac OS X Server provides, however.

Running "Flex test drive" - Got error while attempting to connect to data service

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My configuration :
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Tomcat 6.0
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file:///C:/Mes%20documents%20C/Commun/Developpement/Documentation/HT-Tracks/AccessingData/ help.adobe.com/en_US/Flex/4.0/AccessingData/WSbde04e3d3e6474c4-668f02f4120d422cf08-7ffe.ht ml#WSbde04e3d3e6474c4-19a3f0e0122be55e1b7-8000
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Very nice product anyway, so far, congratulations...
Rgds
Marc.

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Hi,
I am currently receiving the following error in BI Answers when I run a query against a Microsoft SQL 2005 Server.
View Display Error
Odbc driver returned an error (SQLExecDirectW).
Error Details
Error Codes: OPR4ONWY:U9IM8TAC:OI2DL65P
State: HY000. Code: 10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] [nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 43113] Message returned from OBIS. [nQSError: 43119] Query Failed: [nQSError: 16001] ODBC error state: 60 code: 8180 message: [DataDirect][ODBC 20101 driver][Microsoft SQL Server]Statement(s) could not be prepared.. [nQSError: 16001] ODBC error state: 60 code: 102 message: [DataDirect][ODBC 20101 driver][Microsoft SQL Server]Incorrect syntax near 'UserName'.. [nQSError: 16002] Cannot obtain number of columns for the query result. (HY000)
SQL Issued: SELECT 0 s_0, "SD&A_Dashboard_Test"."BORIS_ALIAS_ETMS_Users"."Id" s_1, "SD&A_Dashboard_Test"."BORIS_ALIAS_ETMS_Users"."UserName" s_2 FROM "SD&A_Dashboard_Test" WHERE ("BORIS_ALIAS_ETMS_Users"."UserName" = 'trowe') FETCH FIRST 65001 ROWS ONLY
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I have also activated the nquery.log but that doesn't really give me any further information.
[2015-04-28T16:37:22.000+00:00] [OracleBIServerComponent] [TRACE:4] [USER-34] [] [ecid: 4a9e440f990ba0a4:-1995d2c5:14d00d3ef04:-8000-00000000000001c6,0:1:1:5] [tid: 5f] [requestid: 6f11000b] [sessionid: 6f110000] [username: borisdev] -------------------- Query Status: [nQSError: 16002] Cannot obtain number of columns for the query result. [[
[nQSError: 16001] ODBC error state: 60 code: 102 message: [DataDirect][ODBC 20101 driver][Microsoft SQL Server]Incorrect syntax near 'UserName'..
[nQSError: 16001] ODBC error state: 60 code: 8180 message: [DataDirect][ODBC 20101 driver][Microsoft SQL Server]Statement(s) could not be prepared..
[nQSError: 43119] Query Failed:
I was wondering if anyone could shed any light on what could possibly be causing the [DataDirect][ODBC 20101 driver][Microsoft SQL Server]Incorrect syntax near 'UserName'.. error ? And also provide any suggestions on how I can troubleshoot this issue further as I am now completely out of ideas of what to do next having tried numerous things i.e. setting IDENTIFIER_QUOTE_CHAR = '' in DBFeatures.INI which I found in similar posts on the subject all to no avail
Regards,
Tom Rowe

Hi Rajagopal,
Thanks for your reply after doing some further investigations this morning I found and corrected the problem...
The DataDirect Driver does not like double quotes in the query for some reason, testing using the BI Answers generated SQL with the nqcmd tool below...
With double quotes “” it fails immediately
Give SQL Statement: select T18706."Id" as c1, T18706."UserName" as c2 from "ETMS_Users" T18706 where ( T18706."UserName" = 'trowe' )
select T18706."Id" as c1, T18706."UserName" as c2 from "ETMS_Users" T18706 where ( T18706."UserName" = 'trowe' )
[102][State: S1000] [DataDirect][ODBC SQL Server Wire Protocol driver][Microsoft SQL Server]Incorrect syntax near 'Id'.
Statement execute failed
With double quotes removed for just the columns I now get the Error near ‘ETMS_Users’ which still had the double quotes
Give SQL Statement: select T18706.Id as c1, T18706.UserName as c2 from "ETMS_Users" T18706 where ( T18706.UserName = 'trowe' )
select T18706.Id as c1, T18706.UserName as c2 from "ETMS_Users" T18706 where ( T18706.UserName = 'trowe' )
[102][State: S1000] [DataDirect][ODBC SQL Server Wire Protocol driver][Microsoft SQL Server]Incorrect syntax near 'ETMS_Users'.
Statement execute failed
With all double quotes removed it works !
Give SQL Statement: select T18706.Id as c1, T18706.UserName as c2 from ETMS_Users T18706 where ( T18706.UserName = 'trowe' )
select T18706.Id as c1, T18706.UserName as c2 from ETMS_Users T18706 where ( T18706.UserName = 'trowe' )
c1 c2
42499 trowe
Row count: 1
Give SQL Statement:
The solution to fix the problem is...
In the BI Admin Tool Physical Layer Database, Properties Features tab is to delete the double quote in the Value column for IDENTIFIER_QUOTE_CHAR, setting this in the DBFeatures.INI file does not resolve the problem possibly it did in earlier versions of the product.
Regards,
Tom Rowe

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Stefan:
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OS User            Compaq-laptop/SAPServiceJ2E
DB User            SAPJ2EDB
J2EE Engine User   Administrator
J2EE Engine User   Guest
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BCUSER
DDIC
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Reader wont use print driver on print server

I recently posted this question on the user forum, my mistake, I know all the really smart people are over here!
I have developed a print-driver with a very special purpose - it launches an application on the machine on which it is installed - and which also has an electronic signature pad connected to it - and captures a handwritten signature and embeds that into the pdf file just printed, keeping the document in electronic form.
This means that if someone using computer A wants the person using computer B to sign a document, they just print that document to computer B's shared instance of this print driver. For this to happen, the print driver on the server computer must be used.
There is an issue of "client-side" rendering implemented by MS since sometime after windows 2000. This can be disabled (at least turned off) and I have done everything I can do to force "server-side" rendering for this print driver.
However, Reader and Acrobat simply won't honor these settings - in all cases these 2 insist on using the local copy of the driver (which must exist on the local computer too - windows now copies that driver from the server each time the server driver is updated).
ALL other applications that I've tested faithfully send the document to the server's driver (though they also "exercise" the local driver for some reason, I can see this through logging when it is activated - but I cannot see where/why the printing subsystem is making the decision to forward it on).
To recap - other applications faithfully "render" using the server's driver on the server machine, Acrobat and Reader render using the client driver on the client machine.
I am more than willing to develop a print provider, print processor, or port monitor for my print driver - if I knew enough about which one of these is best targeted for this particular problem. It was hair pulling enough to figure out how to do the driver to begin with, this time I'd really appreciate any advice about which one of these I need to tackle rather than spend days developing one realizing I should have developed the other.
Or ... if there is something I need to set in Reader/Acrobat properties OR something in the print driver itself (which is, BTW, based on MS pscript5, i.e., not monolithic) that I might need to do ?
Thanks very much for the help
Nate Clark

Hi,
Have you tried the following steps:
1. Delete the printer from control panel -> printers
2. Open Services.msc and stop and start the Print Spooler service
3. Open Print Management(Open command prompt, type in printmanagement.msc or type print management in to the start menu search box)
4. In Custom Filters -> All Drivers right click the printer driver you want to remove and select Remove Driver Package
Thanks.

Mavericks server alerts and User account questions

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I'm looking for more detailed information about setting up Alerts in Mavericks Server, plus I seem to have a strange problem with new user accounts when setting up.
More Info.
I have a Mac Mini acting almost 100% exclusively as a Time Machine backup device with encryption of three portable computers on a wired network. This was originally set up three years using Snow Leopard Server and a 2Tb external FireWire Drive.
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It seems a good opportunity to clean install Mavericks Server on the Mini, so I've set up a test station on my MacBook Pro with my Mac Pro (both running 10.9.2) as a test backup client. The Server OS is on an external FireWire boot drive, and the TM backup folders are on another external, in this case a USB 3.0
For obvious reasons there does not seem to be any reason to turn on more services than absolutely necessary, so just Time Machine and File Sharing for the moment. All works well but I can't seem to get Alerts working. I've listed 3 different eMail addresses (all mine) for the alerts to be sent to, and I have two Admin Accounts for Notifications, both using the same AppleID I set the Server software up with. I've gone through the rather sparse setup help information carefully, and there is no information about additional services being required, although I did try setting up the Mail client (tested sending and receiving) on the Server and having it running whilst the backups were being tested.
As I said, the test backups went fine and when I disconnected the backup drive from the Server to simulate a failed drive the TM on the Mac Pro client showed an alert saying the backup drive could not be found. However, there were no emails or Notifications received, either on the Mac Pro or my iPhone from the Server.
There seems to be minimal amount of information available about the workings of Mavericks Server, but I have gone through what I can additionally find online about Mountain Lion Server, with no real indication of what it is that I am missing. The only instructions seem to be exactly what I've done, so your advice would be appreciated.
Another thing that puzzles me, is that when restarting the MacBook Pro I get all the Admin and Standard User Accounts (created in Server.app) showing at the login screen. This is only four Accounts in total, so what would happen if this was 50 Users? If I click on the 'User' tab in Server.app I get 83 User Accounts showing, but that was not the case until this evening, as only the Admin and Stardard User Accounts I had set up were visible.
It's obviously possible that I've mucked up the install and basic setup somehow, but I can't see that anything I've done would have these effects as I've been careful to follow the options put in front of me.
Thank you in advance.

There's nothing to fetch. You assign the value from the function GET_APPLICATION_PROPERTY(USERNAME); as you would any value returned from a function.
DECLARE
myVar VARCHAR2(50);
BEGIN
myVar := GET_APPLICATION_PROPERTY(USERNAME);
END;Hope this helps.
Craig...
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Driver for SQL server with wlserver can't start at all and "no suitable driver" and

Hi all,
After I download the jDriver for Ms sql 2000 server, I set the classpath as document
told, I test it using the utils.dbping it works fine. But when I try to use it
with the weblogic server 6.1 I have the problem as following:
I included the jDriver classes in the classpath of the startWeblogic.cmd as
set CLASSPATH=.;.\lib\weblogic_sp.jar;.\lib\weblogic.jar;C:\weblogic\mssqlserver4v70\classes
saved the startWeblogic.cmd file Then I start the wls with startWeblogic.cmd(the
new classpath). It starts fine Then I setup the connection sql pool using the
weblogic.jdbc.mssqlserver4.Driver It says "No suitable driver"
I found that in the weblogic.jar(shipped with the weblogic 6.1) and in the jDriver
classes, there are two files which have the same name is weblogic.jdbc.mssqlserver4.Driver.
Because in the classpath .\lib\weblogic.jar comes first so weblogic server takes
weblogic.jdbc.mssqlserver4.Driver of the weblogic.jar rather than in the jDriver
classes directory. So I thought the matter of changing the order in the classpath
(.\lib\weblogic_sp.jar;C:\weblogic\mssqlserver4v70\classes;.\lib\weblogic.jar")
will solve the problem, but when I changed the oder in the classpath the weblogic
server did not start AT ALL with the following errror.
------------------Begin error----------------------------
C:\bea\wlserver6.1>"C:\bea\jdk131\bin\java" -hotspot -ms64m -mx64m -classpath
". ;.\lib\weblogic_sp.jar;C:\weblogic\mssqlserver4v70\classes;.\lib\weblogic.jar"
-Dweblogic.Domain=mydomain -Dweblogic.Name=myserver -Dbea.home="C:\\bea" -Dweblogic.management.password=
-Dweblogic.ProductionModeEnabled=true -Djava.security.policy="C:\bea\wlserver6.
1/lib/weblogic.policy" weblogic.Server ***************************************************************************
The WebLogic Server did not start up properly. Exception raised: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError
at weblogic.Home.getFileSource(Home.java:66) at weblogic.Home.<init>(Home.java:29)
at weblogic.Home.getInstance(Home.java:81) at weblogic.Home.getPath(Home.java:89)
at weblogic.security.internal.ServerAuthenticate.main(ServerAuthenticate .java:77)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.run(T3Srvr.java:200) at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:35)
Reason: Fatal initialization exception ***************************************************************************
C:\bea\wlserver6.1>goto finish
------------------End error----------------------------
I wonder how can I use the jDriver with weblogic server?
Do you have any idea what I have done wrong or how to get around with this problem?
Please help
Thanks in advance

Tom wrote:
Thank you very much, Joe and Laurent
It works now. You save my life :);-)
Joseph Weinstein <[email protected]> wrote:
tom wrote:
Hi Joe, Thanks for your fast reply.No problem. They pay me to be hear on weekdays ;-)
So what you tell me the driver for MSSQL 2000 is in the weblogic.jaris that
correct.yes.
And my connection pool definition:
<JDBCConnectionPool DriverName="weblogic.jdbc.mssqlserver4.Driver"
MaxCapacity="5" Name="mySQLPool"
Properties="user=sa;db=ejb20;hostname=XXX;password=realpassword;appname=ejb20Phone;server=ivm_server:1433"
Targets="" URL="jdbc:weblogic:mySqlPool"/>I see the problem. The URL is broken. It should be the URL that the particular
driver wants, eg:
jdbc:weblogic:mssqlserver4:ivm_server
Then set the pool's Properties to have the user, password, appname, and
db. (no server needed, it's in the URL, and 1433
is default)
thanks,
Joe
I have the port as doc suggest 1433 but it would not help me.
Please help
Thanks Joe
Joseph Weinstein <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi. Our ms driver is already in the plain 6.1 jar file, so there is
no
need for the additional
driver download or classes in the server path. Dbping should workwith
just the server
weblogic.jar etc in your classpath. What is the error you got originally
trying to use
the MS driver with/in weblogic? Show me your pool definition. That's
probably where the
problem will be...
Joe
tom wrote:
Hi all,
After I download the jDriver for Ms sql 2000 server, I set the classpathas document
told, I test it using the utils.dbping it works fine. But when I
try
to use it
with the weblogic server 6.1 I have the problem as following:
I included the jDriver classes in the classpath of the startWeblogic.cmdas
set CLASSPATH=.;.\lib\weblogic_sp.jar;.\lib\weblogic.jar;C:\weblogic\mssqlserver4v70\classes
saved the startWeblogic.cmd file Then I start the wls with startWeblogic.cmd(the
new classpath). It starts fine Then I setup the connection sql poolusing the
weblogic.jdbc.mssqlserver4.Driver It says "No suitable driver"
I found that in the weblogic.jar(shipped with the weblogic 6.1)
and
in the jDriver
classes, there are two files which have the same name is weblogic.jdbc.mssqlserver4.Driver.
Because in the classpath .\lib\weblogic.jar comes first so weblogicserver takes
weblogic.jdbc.mssqlserver4.Driver of the weblogic.jar rather than
in
the jDriver
classes directory. So I thought the matter of changing the order
in
the classpath
(.\lib\weblogic_sp.jar;C:\weblogic\mssqlserver4v70\classes;.\lib\weblogic.jar")
will solve the problem, but when I changed the oder in the classpaththe weblogic
server did not start AT ALL with the following errror.
------------------Begin error----------------------------
C:\bea\wlserver6.1>"C:\bea\jdk131\bin\java" -hotspot -ms64m -mx64m-classpath
". ;.\lib\weblogic_sp.jar;C:\weblogic\mssqlserver4v70\classes;.\lib\weblogic.jar"
-Dweblogic.Domain=mydomain -Dweblogic.Name=myserver -Dbea.home="C:\\bea"-Dweblogic.management.password=
-Dweblogic.ProductionModeEnabled=true -Djava.security.policy="C:\bea\wlserver6.
1/lib/weblogic.policy" weblogic.Server ***************************************************************************
The WebLogic Server did not start up properly. Exception raised:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError
at weblogic.Home.getFileSource(Home.java:66) at weblogic.Home.<init>(Home.java:29)
at weblogic.Home.getInstance(Home.java:81) at weblogic.Home.getPath(Home.java:89)
at weblogic.security.internal.ServerAuthenticate.main(ServerAuthenticate.java:77)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.run(T3Srvr.java:200) at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:35)
Reason: Fatal initialization exception ***************************************************************************
C:\bea\wlserver6.1>goto finish
------------------End error----------------------------
I wonder how can I use the jDriver with weblogic server?
Do you have any idea what I have done wrong or how to get around
with
this problem?
Please help
Thanks in advance

Test drive my iWeb site...

Hey,
Would like opinions and comments, useful suggestions about my site. Need to put it out there and give it a test drive before we move to our own domain.
Thanks for all your opinions in advance!
http://web.mac.com/neil.simpson

Great work!
Now on to some issues:
File names. Avoid any punctuation and spaces in any file name (including the names of the html files). Many FTP programs do not upload files with spaces or illegal characters. Use - or _ in their place.
Yep. Looks ugly but it's the only way to upload files on many servers.
Part%20Of%20The%20Team would become PartOf_TheTeam
http://web.mac.com/neil.simpson/iWeb/LeedsNavy/Leeds%20Navyfiles/IMG3544%20%28Large%29.png
Is nearly 500 KB's and its size slows down page loading for those of us using dial-up. It takes about 3 minutes to load that sized file over dial-up (50% of Web users).
Use an image editing app to "scale" the dimensions to your page design prior to uploading. Save it in .jpg format because you can get a great deal more compression on the file as opposed to the .png format. It should be less than 30KB's.
Before you go through all of this extra work and editing of pages you should contact your Web server (host). They can tell you about the spaces in file names issue and give more advice.

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