Questions tagged [osx-lion]

Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) is the eighth major release of OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) is the eighth major release of OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

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How to get around OS X Lion Server SMB "safe save"?

First, there is this problem: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4149 Which says that anything copied to os x server via smb will be "safe saved" and essentially chmod to 600. This is extremely annoying and counterproductive to having a share…
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Mount VHD from Rackspace, with Windows 7 or Mountain Lion

I'm trying to explore the contents of a VHD form a backup of my Rackspace server. Any idea on how I might be able to mount it and explore it's contents? I've tried using the Computer Management tool in windows 7 without any luck. It seems to mount…
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On OS X Server, only admin users can access email

In OS X Lion Server, when I create admin users via the workgroup manager, they are allowed to log in remotely via ssh and they get email served by dovecot. However, if I remove the option "user can administrate this server" in workgroup manager,…
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How are group ids assigned?

I want to create a developers group on my OS-X system. I'm executing: sudo dscl . -create /groups/developers sudo dscl . -append /groups/developers passwd 'blah' My understanding from reading various sources is that I should assign an id to the…
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How can I specify which IP address is used for outbound traffic in OS X Lion Server with multiple WAN IPs?

I have a Mac Mini Server running OS X 10.7.4 (Lion). I am using the ethernet port for the LAN and I have a USB->Ethernet adapter for the WAN. I have assigned two external IPs to the USB->Ethernet (lets call them x.x.x.120 & x.x.x.121). The server’s…
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Migrating from OS X Server 10.6.6 to 10.7 (Lion) - any worries?

I use the built-in server features of OS X Snow Leopard Server to run a local copy of Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl. I develop against these so it is very important to me that they stay available after the upgrade and retain their configurations. I…
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Macs to work on 802.1X wired network

We are in the process on 802.1X for all our wired clients. We are using NPS on Server 2008R2 as our Radius server. All our windows clients authenticate using just a computer certificate issued by our local CA. The problem is that our CTO uses a mac…
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OSX lion server, software update service can't connect to apple

I have a somewhat unique lion server setup, but it's experiencing a couple issues. The main goal is to provide a transparent update server for computers on the network, but to allow them to default back to apple's servers when not in the office…
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How do I debug / fix my apache SSL setup?

The Goal: set up a server that can receive https and http requests from a domain, and forwarded to the rails app running on the server. The rails app is running on localhost:3002, and all attempts to connect to the server are made from a different…
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Resetting root password for MySQL problems (Mac OS X Lion)

I've been trying to reset the root password, and have been following these instructions: http://www.coolestguyplanet.net/how-to-change-the-mysql-root-password/ However, when I use the command: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables I…
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vagrant up command very slow on OS X Lion

When I run vagrant up to provision a new VM on Lion it takes an extremely long time, during which the entire Mac is very laggy and unresponsive. The output is as follows, the key point being the "notice: Finished catalog run in 754.28 seconds" >…
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Add multiple Time Machine shares in Mac OS X Lion server?

Under Mac OS X 10.6 Server (and perhaps older), when setting up a share I had an option I could check to make the share available as a TimeMachine backup location. By doing so, I could have multiple separate TM backup destinations on a single…
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OS X Lion Server not able to set Open Directory user account to store home directory on server

I'm setting up a new Mac Mini server for a client that came with Lion Server. The Mac Mini will act as an Open Directory server and will store each Mac user in the office's home directory on it. It's easy to set this by using the Server.app tool and…
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Could not open the requested SVN filesystem

When i go to http://localhost/repo/myproject/ and enter password this information is displayed: This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
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SVN command works in shell but not in cron. Why not?

I use cron to run an 'svn up' nightly on a directory of files that I need to keep up to date locally while others are working on them. This used to work fine, with a simple: /usr/bin/svn up /path/to/directory However, ever since I updated to OS X…
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