Comments on: Snow Leopard Server-Related Changes

By: systemsboy

systemsboy — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:36:09 +0000

Shawn,

I’m not seeing any obvious way to do this. If such a thing were possible on the client-side, I believe the setting would go in:
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient.plist

This file contains the settings for AppleShare behaviors on the client.

There are also some possible breadcrumbs here:
http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20060329213629494

Please let me know if you end up figuring it out. Could come in handy some day.

-systemsboy

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:44:48 +0000

Hiya!.. your blog should be on everyone’s required reading/daily list, eh. Kudos 2 ya!

Do you (or anyone anyone else) know how to reset the AUTOMOUNT (afp) TIMEOUT (currently 120s) under Snow Leopard Server? I’d love to have something much much shorter (say 5s). Was this *ever* possible?

Thanks.

-drkdev

By: systemsboy

systemsboy — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:34:35 +0000

John,

Unfortunately, I’ve never used the Mac OS X wiki, and don’t know where you might find a good reference for teaching new users.

Sorry.

-systemsboy

By: John Morrissey

John Morrissey — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:29:56 +0000

Where can I find more detail information about wikki web page creation? New users trying to explain to them how to start sometimes can be challenging. Is there a website that you know of that will take them through the Wikki interface. I’ve seen some basic stuff out there I’m looking for more detail stuff. Thanks

By: Doug Brethower

Doug Brethower — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:14:22 +0000

Thanks systemsboy. I was looking high and low for the Directory App. I believe all of it’s prior function has been moved into the iCal Server utility.

IMHO, with the advent of the Mini Server, Apple should consider moving the ability to add organization resources into a less obscure location where first time server admins will find it simple and useful.

I love that quote about obscure getting moved to more obscure.

By: systemsboy

systemsboy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:12:25 +0000

Thanks, Duncan. A useful alternative.

-systemsboy

By: Duncan

Duncan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:42:06 +0000

You can also activate/deactivate Root via Workgroup Manager; you’ll need to View -> Show System Users and Groups, but once that’s done you can edit the password for that account.

You can even use Workgroup Manager on a regular OS X install, connecting to 127.0.0.1.

As I understand it, Directory Utility be accessible from System Preferences is designed to let you get to it if you need to do a bind that isn’t easy to do from the helpful dialog, addressing the most common alternate use case.

Cheers,
Duncan

By: systemsboy

systemsboy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:59:03 +0000

Yes, I am aware of that method. In the past when I’ve used it, however, it behaved slightly differently than activating root via the GUI. I think when you use the command-line method, Directory Service is not notified of the activation (you’ll still see the option in Directory Utility, for instance), so any DS-related stuff doesn’t get activated. Not sure it makes any difference whatsoever (probably not), but this is why I’ve generally tended to prefer the GUI method, and I would point this out any time anyone is thinking of using the command-line approach. Of course, this may have all changed since the last time I tried it.

Thanks for the tip!

-systemsboy

By: Lothar

Lothar — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:57:30 +0000

Like your site, and by the way to activate the root user since 10.5 can be done in Terminal with:
sudo passwd root

give him a password and root is activated…

Cheers L