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  • Forwarding Email in Leopard Server, part 2

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    I’ve previously written about problems with [Leopard server and forwarding of virtual hosted domain email][1]. My solution was somewhat inelegant and errors were written into the mail.log. Since that time I’ve found a solution that works and generates no errors. It also has the added benefit of being entirely within Server Admin. Here’s what to…

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  • Unforeseen Circumstances

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    Due to unforeseen circumstances I accidentally trashed my server installation. Don’t ask me for details but I think I accidentally unloaded all my launch daemons. I figured no big deal just restart the machine and everything’s fine. Not so fine. I restart and my mail server doesn’t seem to be working correctly. Several reinstalls later…

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  • Apple USB Ethernet Adapter – solution

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    Peter Sichel of [Sustainable Softworks][1] is a genius. Seriously. He’s not only just updated his [USB to Ethernet Adapters for Mac OS X][2] to work with the recently released Apple-branded USB Ethernet adapter, but he sent me a comment letting me know. I’ve just installed the `USBAx8817x 1.0.3b10` release and it seems to be working.…

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  • In for repairs

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    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

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    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…

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  • Apple USB Ethernet adapter

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    **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…

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