Apple USB Ethernet part 2

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

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

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 […]

iPhone post

I’m just testing the iPhone posting with the new 1Password integration. I can only say one thing. Awesome.

Leopard Server DHCP-NAT

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 […]

Remember my Settings

I guess this falls under the category of “no good deed goes unpunished”.

Since I’ve now gotten my mail server running with an SSL certificate I find that every time I restart Mail.app it wants to put up a dialog letting me know that

The certificate for this server is invalid.

Well, fortunately Mail.app lets […]

Securing Email

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 […]