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As far as I am aware OS X Lion was able to connect to DFS shares. Before this was not the case. Maybe OS X Lion just isn't able to do it correctly. Unfortunately we do not use DFS shares here or have the need to to be honest. We also do not have a OS X Lion Server/client in school to test it with. Sorry. Just be aware that although it should work, it may not actually be the case. Are there any people out there that have it successfully working. Try and find some examples of a working setup. Maybe Tony Rocco will have seen a working example of Lion connected to DFS shares as he is out in the field setting this sort of stuff up.

Setting up the share is fairly straight forward. Setting up the permissions to allow only write access is also relatively easy. Not sure about the quota part though. I've never set up quotas for shares. There's another thread somewhere in this forum that talks about creating the shares. It is slightly different in Lion but I posted instructions to create drop boxes (what Apple call write only folders) in the thread for 10.6.8 as thats what I use.

maybe try re-kerberising the services?

Possibly a corrupt plist file? Maybe this may help Download PrefCheck for Mac - Check your .plist files for corruption. MacUpdate.com

You just need to realise that if the logic board fails for any reason not covered by any extended repair scheme, it can cost in excess of around £250 to have it sorted. This is just a single case. Macs are relatively decent machines but when they go wrong they can cost. Just search online for parts and see how much they can cost even if you decide to DIY. I know for a fact that the replacement Graphics card in a iMac was around £280.

These should run Lion but check the RAM. It does need a bit more than 1GB. 2GB i think is minimum. I have a 2ghz core 2 duo iMac running lion at home but it does have a dedicated graphics card with 128 RAM onboard. Why do they need both? For me there is a big grey area over the whole App store thing for OSes. IIRC Apple during their WWDC about Lion in the App Store said with one purchase you could run it on upto 10 client or however machines you own. Now this is for consumers. Not sure how it works for businesses and education establishments. There was a discussion on here a little while ago about volume purchasing of Lion. The Lion OS is also a full install as well as far as I can tell so in theory doesn't require an upgrade path. However, does it require 10.6 under the T&Cs? If so I'm not sure why as there is no alternative "full version" to purchase instead. So what does one do? You can't get 10.6 anymore from resellers (i asked about 10.6 server) so how can you follow the upgrade path imposed by the T&Cs. I would install from scratch on all machines using the volume purchase. You can create a template user and configure the preferences. Once done you can then log out of this user account and then copy their home dir over the default template on the client. Once this is done any accounts created and logged in after this would pick up the new 'default' template. You can then lock down the user by using the parental controls. This is perhaps a clunky way of managing macs but it is a free option. I'm not sure if the AD users are able to be locked down using parental controls though. It may just be local accounts. If indeed it is only local accounts, you will have to move to either extending the AD schema or investing in OS X Server. OS X Server can be installed on any mac that meets the requirements. It does not have to be a server-grade system. An educational iMac can run OS X Server if you wanted it to. There is a video tutorial on how to extend the schema on Apples educational video site IIRC. Here is the educational videos section on Apple's site: http://www.apple.com/education/resources/

Could you not dremel a line across the nut and then use a standard screwdriver? I had to do that to remove the bracket from one of our projectors since it needed to be mounted onto a new one.

It depends on what video editing software you are going to run really. You can get an educational model iMac. It's similar to an older 20" aluminium iMac with 2GB RAM and an integrated Graphics Card I think. But the overall price is around £650 -£700. This machine will run iMovie no problem. May be a little slow if you are doing some high-end video editing, or potentially a little slow at running Final Cut when rendering out the final video it may take a while. We don't run FCP so can't really say how well it performa on these machines. We have 35 iMac Edu models and have no real problems running anything on them really. If there is any slow-down it's usually down to running stuff using networked accounts. Setting up 10 iMacs shouldn't pose any issues. Configuring them to access a network share should be relatively easy enough. You don't necessarily need to purchase a Mac server to manage these clients. You do have a bit of management by using the parental controls. However, using WGM along macs aids in the management of the mac clients. Just be aware that this works alongside a directory structure. You will either need an OS X Open Directory structure or an Active Directory Structure which has had it's schema extended to allow writing Apple MCX records to. You can purchase 3rd party options to allow writing MCX data to an unextended AD schema but these can cost a fair bit, and with each OS X upgrade (10.5,10.6 etc) usually need to be upgraded to. So be aware of the additional cost when buying in to the 3rd party options.

try the .local name of the server e.g. servername.local

Hello, Some of you may be aware that at our school we have StudyWiz as our VLE platform. As part of this platform we can use NFS to mount shares and serve up data. However, I am having some difficulty mounting the share I want to access using NFS. The server is on a separate subnet to the server. We have asked for port 2049 to be opened up to allow NFS to work as mentioned in the list of Apple's well known/used ports. What else needs to be allowed to make NFS able to mount shares across subnets? TIA, Mark.

Hello, We currently have a few web-based services that require separate authentication, or use some alternative authentication method from the DB users table, such as Joomla, MRBS, webmail service etc. I was looking into how feasible it would be to use Shibboleth to manage the authentication of these services, producing a sort of single sign on solution. Is this what Shibboleth is used for? I have briefly looked over their website to see how it works but haven't seen how it is set up and where it finds it's users. Does it just use LDAP to find user accounts. Would someone be able to give a basic outline to the configuration and how it works. Or have people moved on to alternative and more secure methods of creating single sign on solution for web-based service authentication. I'm a little late to the Shibboleth party. TIA, Mark

Are the shares on the OS X Server? If so you can do it by doing the following... Go to server admin. Locate the share that you wish to be a Drop Box. Add the user group you wish to have write access to the drop box. Set the permissions for the ACL of the group to be write only. The OS X clients seem to see this as a Drop Box and even create the Drop Box icon for it in Finder. Its a blue folder with a small blue arrow in a white circle at the bottom-right of the folder, similar to the one found in each users profile. When users drop any work into the folder the users will get a warning stating that once the work is in there they will not be able to view it. The image below shows my permissions.

Theres also Seashore. When looking at software for the mac, I do tend to look for native software that doesn't use X11. There was a Native version of GIMP for OS X under development. It was quite buggy for a while and I haven't been back since to check on it's progress.

If the shares are configured correctly and the user can mount the repository you will need to recreate the netboot.nbi file if you are automating the process. During the configuration of the .NBI file is where you specify the username and password for the repository IIRC.

Lion Server. That's my pet peeve. Of each of the things I have tried to do with it, I failed miserably. This was on the .0 version though and I know some things have changed. Apparently you can now have virtual hosts. On the other hand though most of my issues could have stemmed from not having a proper Domain name (relying on DynDNS which seem to be limiting more and more). I tried to create a redirect for a site to allow for www. version but for the life of me I couldn't get it to work. Email just refused to work at all. One good thing about the Lion upgrade though is that it now has round cube as it's webmail service. You just need to get it to work first. I couldn't get the wikis to work either. Most of my issues all just seemed to revolve around the web services. Apparently since 10.7.1 though you can now create virtual hosts, but I can't even be bothered to find out though. It is a massive step back from 10.6 server and shows that Apple are only intending to support their mobile devices. We can't even upgrade our OS X Server in school due to the lack of some services that we need.

I don't think it brings up a registration page. It usually just starts with the deluxe version (the comic life splash screen starts up with the Deluxe version written next to it). It allows for use of the built-in fonts and other stuff etc. I know that when I copied the license.plist file to all the machines I didn't need to register anything...If thats what you mean anyway.

Scratch the last cry for help. It seems that you CAN view the files in squirrel mail. It just requires a little investigation work. *sound of me clicking on the link*

Hello, The head keeps receiving attachments in the .msg format. Since we use Squirrelmail (OS X default webmail) she cannot open them. Because of this she forwards them straight to me. I then have to use Outlook 2003 to access the .msg file. I currently have access to outlook 2011 on my macbook but although it states that it CAN open msg files I cannot find a way. Is there anything else out there can can handle these flipping things that doesn't require Outlook on a windows box? I have tried some of the 3rd party converters but found them to be unreliable. Hope someone can help. Thanks.

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I don't use Time Machine as I find it quite restrictive. I tend to use CCC

Hello, I have downloaded the Network Installation guide and found the OS X part a little lacking in the description of deployment of the ActivInspire software. I understand how to use ARD to deploy the software. What I would like to know is how would I go about deploying the registration of the software to register it for use on the machines connected to the boards? Is there a way this can be done remotely for macs? What file does the software write to to register the software? Can this file then be copied over to each machine to register the software? I hope you can help. The Windows part of the guide has 17-18 pages. The OS X section has 2.

I appreciate that you wish to keep the items separate due to incompatibility issues but what incompatibility do you have? Is it something that you can remove/eradicate? The reason I ask is because I merge my windows home dir in with the os x home dir and this allows the users to be able to access the documents/information no matter which os they are logged into? But having said that, somewhere in this forum there is a thread that someone started about creating the augmented records. Also take a look at Apple's education video tutorials. Im sure I saw a video that explained how to create an augmented record. It may have even been for the home dir. As for the smb mounted share, if the users have SSO for the AD shares then you can just simply mount these at login using WGM.

You could ask why did they discontinue the Xserve and replace it with non-enterprise solutions with no power redundancy and in the case of the mac mini no way of using more than one Ethernet port? Also why the hell did they release lion server as they have done. Will they look to release a more fully fledged version with the service management tools put back in server admin?

You can stick the mapped drive right on their dock easy enough just by opening WGM and then system prefs. Click on the dock option and them at the bottom under add other folders: tick the network home option. This will place their network home on the dock. In theory you could then just have users save to the desktop and then once work is completed just upload to the server via their home dir. This is perhaps the best method of working if users are happy to allow for the additional effort since macs tend to work a lot better when not on the network.

I managed to brick my phone (Yeah! Go me!) and ended up calling Applecare for an hour. Had the hold down the power button + home button together for 10 seconds and then release the power button while still holding the home button and then connect the phone to the computer while iTunes is running. It took some time to work out the proper process as the guy on the phone was telling me to release the power button when the apple logo came up.