Well, I’m going to try and clone my server and run it off the booted external firewire drive until I get my server’s ethernet port fixed.
I can only hope it goes well. Wish me luck. And yes I’m backing up.
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Apple USB Ethernet part 2
February 12, 2008 – 4:22 pm
Well, after spending several hours on the phone with AppleCare is seems that my mini’s ethernet port went belly up at the exact same time I tried to install the Apple USB Ethernet adapter.
It seems my ethernet port recognizes a connection but just doesn’t transfer data. I did boot from an external firewire drive and […]
Apple USB Ethernet adapter
February 8, 2008 – 9:19 pm
Don’t use this adapter on any Mac except the MacBook Air
At least not yet. Here’s why. The Apple USB Ethernet adapter loads just fine but it identifies itself with a BSD Device Name of en0. The problem with this is that your Mac’s built-in ethernet adapter also is identified as en0.
I bought this to be […]
Forwarding Email in Leopard Server
February 6, 2008 – 4:38 pm
OK, to put it mildly the Workgroup Manager and Email in Leopard Server has some quirks and problems.
I and others noted that a user whose email was set to forward would give a 550 error about not being able to access the users mailbox or the mailbox wasn’t set up. Well, since the mail is […]
WordPress SVN
February 5, 2008 – 4:45 pm
OK, since I’ve switched over to WordPress I have to admit it’s been pretty painless. I decided to go with the SVN update process since I know it’s much easier. But the monkey wrench in the process is having to switch to the new checkout for every stable release.
So instead of
$ cd ./blog $ svn up
I […]
USB to Ethernet Adapter
December 31, 2007 – 4:38 pm
Oh my god how aggravating. I’ve got an Intel Mac mini I’m using as a server and I’ve got a StarTech USB to Ethernet adapter. Unfortunately, none of the current drivers seems to support Leopard well. Fortunately, Sustainable Networks has written a beta driver to support Leopard. Unfortunately my adapter isn’t one of the ones […]
Moving domains
December 6, 2007 – 7:13 pm
Sorry if anyone gets confused. When I moved this blog over to WordPress I was hosting it on a different domain. It now lives here on thefragens.com where it belongs.
I play around with virtual domains for the URL instead of a folder but that for another day.
Leopard Server DHCP-NAT
December 5, 2007 – 11:46 am
Well, I’m finally getting most of the initial stuff for the server up and running. All I can say is thank goodness for Google.
Setting up DHCP/NAT was both simple and highly complex. Simple in that running the Gateway Assistant from the NAT setup was easy. Complex in that the default /etc/bootpd.plist is missing some required […]
Securing Email
November 20, 2007 – 2:49 pm
I think I’ve finally accomplished it. It being getting my mail server to use SSL for IMAP/POP/SMTP.
I’m running Leopard Server on an Intel Mac mini and I’ve been screwing around with Keychain Access > Certificate Assistant for the past 2 days. Don’t waste your time.
Joel Rennich has some excellent instructions on getting everything up and […]
Moved to WordPress!
November 12, 2007 – 10:16 am
Well, here I am switched over to WordPress. It’s not a complete transition yet as I still have to configure MarsEdit and wait to turn over hosting of my main site to myself so this can go in the correct place. But so far so good.