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Hi, I have got to install Smart board 9.7 onto some Xp machines and was looking to see if i could deploy it with an MSI through group policy. I have looked could not find an MSI downlaoad on the smartboard software section. I looked to see if i could find a document that explains how to do a silent install for this app but only found a doc for network based galleries (which will come in handy). I found a thread with a link to an MSI file but for 9.5 and the link is of course now broken. Does anyone else have any info on the best way to deploy smart board software? Thanks.

Do the ports need to be identical? i ask as we have a server that was built with a foxconn motherboard. It is strange in that it has one 10/100/1000mb port and a 10/100. I find this quite weird. Why would you want that configuration? What would be the benefits if you cannot team them up?

Click in the box where it says time.euro.apple and then type in the Ip address.

I read somewhere a while ago about some confusion about the Parallels and Boot camp setup. Since Parallels can run using the Boot camp for its VM, the question was as the hardware was different did you still need just the one license for the Boot camp partition or did you need 2? One for Parallels and one for Boot camp. Even though its the same partition and same Windows version, the hardware was different.

Hi, I too was looking into aggregating 2 ports together. I have 2 ports on my Intel Xserve which i would like to aggregate together to improve throughput. I have tried to but then realised that i needed a compatible switch (showing my dumbness now) and so purchased switch that supported aggregated links. I now need a little help on getting the right configuration for this to work its best. The switch is a Linksys SWR2048. Anyone know this switch at all?? PS sorry for hijacking the thread. Thanks

OK i can confirm that Digest does not work with IE since as soon as i changed it to basic i could log in. I am still however having problems getting the http to switch to https to secure authentication. Is there an easy way to do this without having to add each user that is already in the OD to a .htaccess file? I hope there is. I am still looking around the Internet but cannot find the thing i need. I could encase the whole site in https but could just confuse the general users.

So RM have opened the ports to allow the traffic through to our servers now. they forwarded ports 25,80 and 443 into our network and i can now see our servers from the public IP address. The school guardian is configured to forward the ports into our network from the mid-range of IPs and i have enabled the firewalls on both OD servers. I have enabled only the same ports from "any". I have not used the OS X server firewall in a production environment so would like to clarify the settings if possible. What are the minimum ports needed for http, https and mail? Is that all i need to do with the "any" side of the firewall. I assume that the any means in from the internet.

This time is something slightly different. I have a secure area set up on the website (at the moment it's internal) and i would like to switch to https before logging in. How can i do this? I have tried a redirect in the apache httpd sites config but it does not switch over to https just for that part of the site i have been using the following in the httpd sites conf file: RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !443 RewriteRule (.*) https://domainname/secure-area/index.html [R] This comes after the realms that OS X server places in the sites conf file. I have the realm set to digest but it still sends in clear text according to Safari. If i can sort this i could reduce the digest to plain text and then it may resolve the issue of IE not being able to log in as apparently it does not fully support the RFC for digest??? Hope someone can help. This is the last piece of my puzzle now.

The upgrade to 50Mb will cost 47 quid IIRC. There is a beta section on the web for their site. There's no direct link to it though.

I was trying to authenticate users through the webmail system from the mail service in the OD. If that makes sense. So the squirrelmail was running localhost basically. What i needed to do was make squirrelmail use cram-md5 authentication as i have disabled the use of the other types in the mail service in server admin. You can't do this through the squirrelmail conf so you have to edit the config.php manually. This seem to do the trick.

has anyone got os x server setup with realms for authentication that could confirm my issue? TIA

hahaha. I can't access pivotstick animator here. It's been blocked by RM.

Cross-platform versions. The smart learning is a good example of this. I have the server-side running on the AD and the client installation on both the XP and OS X side connecting to it. Works really well.

Hi, I hope someone can help. I have set up a realm in OS X server 10.4.11 which requires authentication of users in the OD. Safari and firefox can authenticate against the realm and access the directory but internet explorer can't. I have tried V6 and V7 but to no avail. I set up and configured a realm on an OS X 10.5.1 server and found the same problem, until i enabled Auth_apple_digest_mod. This resolved the issue and IE6 could authenticate against the realm. However the closest module i could find on Tiger was Apple_Digest_module. I enabled this but it did not resolve the issue. Is there anything else i can try.

Thanks for the heads up.

Can you log in locally and then log out and log back in as a network user straight after?

That sounds about right to me. When you lookup the routers ip it resolves back to a SOA record for RM. Ok. Thanks for the information. I will need to speak to the guy who was dealing with my query and see how it goes from there.

Yeah the fax went off over a week ago but i still have not heard from them to say whether it has been accepted or denied or anything. So how could the ports be blocked if i have my own managed router for the internet. At the moment we have an adsl line from RM who supplied us with their router which is not being used. At the moment we have no connection to our LEA.

Well it's been over a week now and i have heard nothing from RM as to whether they have actually opened the ports i requested or even if they are still working on the issue. It's ridiculous for it to take this long. So today i have taken their router off-line and put our old BT Voyager one back on and tried to get it working. But i am still getting an issue with the port forwarding. The router is a Voyager 2091. I have disabled the IP Filter and set up port forwards for port 80, 443 and 25. Ip of router = 196.x.x.x ip of private side of router = 10.x.x.254 ip of public side of school guardian = 10.x.x.1 private side of school guardian = 172.x.x.254 ip of webserver = 172.x.x.1 so given the above ips this is how it goes: - 80 from all --> 10.x.x.1 Voyager) 80 from 10.x.x.254 --> 172.x.x.1 same for all other port numbers. Connection gets refused. According to the logs on the School Guardian its not even getting to that point since there are no entries for any ports forwarded, rejected, stealthed, nothing at all in any of them apart from "main". There doesn't seem to be any log option on the Voyager router so cannot see what's happening at that point. Anyone have any ideas what might be wrong?? PS i have taken onboard what folks have said and have been trying to connect via IP. DNS resolves internally for the http://www.cronehills.sandwell.sch.uk but resolves to somewhere else at the moment externally.

So i have been configuring my services for a while now on my os x server. I have got a forum up and running along with a support desk and the website with webmail running along side it. I have re-directed all traffic from http to https for webmail domain name and the same for the forum. I have configured the services to use SSL under the mail option in the server admin for both SMTP and IMAP. I have now run into a problem. I can't log in as a user anymore when using webmail. My mail client works fine and can send and receive no problems but when trying it from webmail login (which i think is squirrelmail) authentication fails. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with squirrelmail and SSL. Are there any requirements that need to be sorted before it will work through SSL? TIA

Did you ever find or create something to do this? I ask because i have just done one on my server. I used w2box for mine it works great and also has the added benefit of being free. Linky W2box

Did you visit the stand at the Bett show? If you didn't then they were promoting a managed system from the switch (£1100) to the APs (£100-£110 each). The guy gave me a talk and a demo of the system which i personally thought was quite good. The APs are connect to the switch which centrally manages the APs and also powers them. The good thing about these AP's was that they were "clever" in that they detected load and then moved users to a second AP if it was too busy. It also powered up and down signal strength if one AP was detected as offline, therefore covering the area that the offline access point would cover. It also had a built-in "automatic site planner". You imported a floor plan into the switch with dimensions and then the switch apparently pointed out the optimal places for your access points to provide the best cover. The AP also provide seamless roaming. For the cash it didn't sound too bad although it is all just theory unless someone has used them already and can vouch for this system. The system is of a collaboration between Netgear and Aruba.

personally i think that the only time there would be an advantage is when you would have tape drives to back up to to practice back up and restore procedures as they would be from start to finish. Also a RAID card in there to give you practice on creating RAIDs and so forth Dual network cards to help practice configuring link aggregated ports /failover. Obviously all this is not cheap. It's what i would be looking at anyway. Best to save your money get 2 cheap machines and try and get the licenses to set up a replicated network. I think thats where the real practice should be as this can make or break an AD network depending on whether it works or not.

I don't know if this is of any use but my brother works at a college and at each enrollment time they have a the students come in and enroll which adds them into the student record system. They then have a script which is triggered by a schedule which then takes them from a DB which has been taken from the Student record system (they cannot connect direct to it for some reason) and then creates the script to add them to the right OU, moves all the other users to the correct domain (not sure about the last bit) and creates the home dirs for the new users and then creates the correct permissions. I will see if my brother can get hold of the scripts. Since he is the DBA and the consultants actually do the management of the network it may be difficult for him.

I don't run exchange as you know but maybe this might be of use.. http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/expert/KnowledgebaseAnswer/0,289625,sid43_gci947676,00.html You also backup the mail store? If so should that be Ok for the Mail backup archive that you seek. I don't know how exchange holds its DB Is it brows-able or extractable by admins or do you have to restore?