http://www.macintosh-admin.com The resource for Macintosh administrators... Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:03:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After playing with OpenFire for some time, I decided to go back to the default jabberd install on OS X Leopard Server. Unfortunately, the application doesn't seem to come with an un-installer nor are there directions in the documentation. A quick search on the Ignite Software forums turned up these directions ... http://www.macintosh-admin.com/2008/12/29/removing-an-openfire-install/ Last week one of our database servers notified me that the main OS drive had less then 5% storage space. I loaded up one of my favorite tools, Grand Perspective to see what was taking up so much space. Sure enough, I had about 5-6GBs of space left, and there ... http://www.macintosh-admin.com/2008/11/27/mysql-binary-logging/ Glenn Fleishmann over at Ars Technica has a great article explaining the new WPA crack. Here's the quick & dirty explanation: [I]t's a method of decrypting and arbitrarily and successfully re-encrypting and re-injecting short packets on networks that have devices using TKIP. That's a very critical distinction; this is a serious ... http://www.macintosh-admin.com/2008/11/07/the-wpa-crack/ The next edition of Mac OS X Server, dubbed "Mac OS X Snow Leopard", will include a few major enhancements and additions. I for one am hoping the Address Book server & the iCal server will become more group-ware based. The iCal server right now is, and I lightly say, ... http://www.macintosh-admin.com/2008/10/03/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-brief-overview/ The past couple of days have seen a number of software updates related to Mac OS X Server, including Mac OS X Server 10.5.5 (combo): - directory service reliability and authenticating new File Sharing connections - binding and authentication in Active Directory environments - editing Wiki content in Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer - ... http://www.macintosh-admin.com/2008/09/17/mac-os-x-1055-server-admin-tools-apple-remote-desktop-322/ Snow Leopard's across-the-board leap to 64-bits, from the kernel to all of its bundled apps, will do more than just make more memory available. It will also have a significant positive impact on performance system wide, even more than the same jump to 64-bits in Windows Vista. Here's why. Source: ... http://www.macintosh-admin.com/2008/09/08/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-ram-friendly/ Corsair has updated their Securing Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger white paper to include "the new security features offered by Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)" as of August 18th. You can grab any of their white papers (including the Tiger & Panther versions of "Securing Mac OS X") from their Technical White Papers page. ... http://www.macintosh-admin.com/2008/08/20/corsairs-securing-mac-os-x-white-paper-updated-for-leopard/ Just recently I had a consulting appointment with a school that needed to use a proxy server in order to block students from inappropriate websites. Previous to my visit they were using a tangerine iBook with OS9 and some piece of software that did the proxy work. After some thought ... http://www.macintosh-admin.com/2008/07/12/os-x-leopard-serverforwarding-dns-to-opendnscom/ Yesterday Apple released an update of Leopard Server to version 10.5.4, including the following changes: - directory service reliability and authenticating new File Sharing connections - binding and authentication in Active Directory environments - editing Wiki content in Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer - searching with Spotlight in the Finder and on the web - sending ... http://www.macintosh-admin.com/2008/07/01/mac-os-x-1054-leopard-server-released/ Previous to my switching over to a Mac Mini for my Apple servers I used Xserves which had dual Ethernet ports. This allowed for a external public IP and an internal private IP address. This of course if the optimal setup for creating a VPN when using Mac OS X ... http://www.macintosh-admin.com/2008/04/21/vpn-server-with-a-public-ip-only/