In for repairs

February 14, 2008 – 8:42 am

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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