Questions tagged [mac-osx-server]
Questions regarding Apple Mac Server editions of OS X.
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OS X Server 10.8 Sending Email
I'm running a 10.8.5 OS X Server box, with mail running. I'm using one of my local email accounts to send email to a hosted address I have. This where it gets tricky.
Web is hosted internally. ...
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How to setup a bonded ethernet connection directly between macOS and Windows Server 2019?
I've been having trouble connecting a macOS 10.13 High Sierra server to a Windows Server 2019 server with a bonded ethernet connection consisting of 3 directly connected ethernet adapters. Windows ...
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Configure Mac OSX 10.6 VPN Server to use pre shared keys for client login
I have set up Mac OS X server 10.6 on a 2012 mac mini and am running a VPN so I can connect to my home network. The VPN is up and running correctly when using a shared secret and username/password for ...
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Mail server Setup is not Working On Mac Osx
Hello I have configured postfix server on mac server version 10.14.6 along with the dovecot,clamav and amavisd bu the mail server is not working its showing the following error:
connect to 127.0.0....
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Deploying Website On Mac Os Server using Docker-compose
I have containerized a web application and need to deploy it on my client's Mac server. I successfully tested the deployment on a virtual Ubuntu server, which is trivial (installing the Docker ...
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Logging in via SFTP changes owner of parent folder
I have a serious problem with my SFTP server running under macOS 10.14.6. (Server is version 5.8)
What I'm trying to achieve is to restrict SFTP users to only see their home folder. I have all ...
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Multiple Mac minis in a network (DNS setup)
I’m not sure if I am asking the correct question or not.
Base of the question, we are a private school and recently we embarked on a project using filemaker where the students ...
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Using a Mac as an unbound server. Syslog trouble
I am rebuilding a new macOS Server based on what is left of it in macOS Mojave and macports. I am attempting to run unbound DNS caching resolver on my macOS Mojave. This works. I can also log from ...
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Changing Apple EFI for Xeon microcode
I have Mac Pro 3,1.
I have just bought 2x Xeon E5450 SLBBM E0 stepping and found that there are unsupported by my Mac Pro.
I tried to google for this problem and found that only SLANQ C0 stepping ...
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macOS High Sierra Server mail services /usr/bin/log weirdness
With /usr/bin/log I can get information about the mail services from macOS's log system. E.g. /usr/bin/log show --start '2019-08-07 12:50:59' --end '2019-08-07 13:00:59' --predicate '(process == "smtp"...
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Letsencrypt certificate renewal privileges bug OSX Server
Today i've renewed the SSL certificates for my website using letsencrypt. The generated keys in the /etc/letsencrypt/archive/yourdomainname were successfully generated. So i got cert.pem, chain.pem, ...
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Does not work smbclient in Mac OS x 10.8.3. Socket is not connected
last few days, i can't connect to any windows share in my domain from Mac OS x 10.8.3.
According to reinstall, i can't do it, because there are a lot of settings in environment of this os.
Can you ...
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Debug DKIM on MacOS X
I am setting up DKIM on MacOS X/Server using Amavis-new.
Everything seems ok, by when I try to test it using
sudo -u _amavisd -H amavisd -c /Library/Server/Mail/Config/amavisd/amavisd.conf testkeys
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Network share slow down over time
We have a Mac mini 2018 which share the content of a Raid NAS and after like 6-7 days the read/write speed of the connected user drop down, what would be a good way to investigate what is the problem ?...
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Suddenly RADIUS authentication is gone on macOS server (TLS session fails)
Suddenly my RADIUS authentication is gone on my MacOS Server running 10.13.6 and Server Version 5.6.1 (17S2109.
I already restored the Open Directory Server.
$ host name.domain.tld
name.domain.tld ...
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Is it possible to start a docker-machine at macOS (Server) boot?
Now that Apple is dropping certain services in Server.app (postfix, dovecot, DNS, to name a few) it is important to find solutions to keep these running. Apple suggests moving to open source versions, ...
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Apache2.4 Require IP not working because 127.0.0.1
I am trying to configure .htaccess on Apache 2.4 using Require ip X.X.X.X
The problem I am experiencing is that all requests appear to be coming from 127.0.0.1 and not the public IP of the request. I ...
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OSX Server Reverse Proxy, Preserve IP Address
I'm having trouble getting OSX Server's Apache service proxy to preserve the client's IP address when forwarding traffic to a Go-based server that I wrote.
Since I have OSX Server's "Websites" ...
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Nginx server can not start
My nginx server can't start anymore after I killed its process through pkill nginx. Now everytime I try sudo nginx, i get this error
nginx: [emerg] open() "/usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.12.2_1/logs/error....
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OSX high sierra time machine server
since updating (fresh install!) to OSX high sierra the server app does not offer the time machine settings anymore.
The changelog somehow reflects that, but refers to the system settings --> sharing ...
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MacOS Server Wiki Main Page Won't Load
I started playing around with the Wiki feature of MacOS Server recently. I built out a really nice, simple wiki for my department and I love it. However, recently when I go to the list of Wikis and ...
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How to test macOS afctl (the built-in adaptive firewall)?
Setting up macOS afctl (the adaptive firewall) on a 10.12 server. We had problems with this on a 10.11 server, and numerous online discussions reported that the thing just didn't work as advertised on ...
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nginx as reverse proxy for macOS Server's apache
I want to use nginx on macOS as reverse proxy for server's apache. I managed default macOS Server's apache to run on ports 4780 for HTTP and 47443 for HTTPS. Config is located here: /Library/Server/...
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how can i get jenkins stop listening on for remote connection on mac os x `
actually my Jenkins server is installed on mac os x, and it is having unsecured http port 8081(http:www.mydomain.com:8081). We changed http to https by securing with letsencypt and using apache as ...
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OSX record already exists 2008 function level change
This may be related to a server 2008 functional level change we recently underwent. After that change, we started having problems with Macs binding to AD. They'd just give us an error similar to ...
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In mac OS Server, why don't virus & filtering settings seem to have any effect?
In mac OS Server, when configuring the Mail service, it is possible to configure the virus & junk mail filtering settings. It's just a GUI front-end for clamav, amavis, spamassassin, greylisting, ...
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OpenVPN for Macosx got .ovpn from Windows user but need own key and crt files?
Ok, I don't know if this is something I need to setup on my computer or if this is something that the client needs to give me. I believe a .key file is private, however, I seem to be having issues ...
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OSX Netinstall Custom Image
I've been searching for a clear method to create a custom Netinstall image of Sierra for a while without success.
My goal is to have two administrator accounts by default and some packages (e.g. ...
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OSX Home Directory permissions
I'm having some trouble with OSX setting odd permissions (Everyone/Deny/Delete) on users folders when they login to a Mac for the first time and I don't have enough experience with Macs to get it ...
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Reconfigure Apache to serve a Subversion repository over HTTPS (instead of HTTP)
I had a working setup of Apache, Redmine (3.3.2.stable) as well as Subversion (1.6.17); the server is a Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. Security concerns prompted us to change the server protocol to ...
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Speed up SFTP uploads on high latency network?
I'm trying to transfer a set of large files internationally using SFTP, but I am finding my international partner can't get upload speeds above ~50k despite very good connections on either side. We ...
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How to get LDAP password hash for MacOS Server user?
Is there a way of getting the password hash for a named LDAP user where the user is defined within Open Directory on a MacOS Server running OSX Sierra and MacOS Server 5.2?
My use case:
I am setting ...
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What is equivalent of smbpasswd -a on OS X Server? How to add Local Network Directory Users in Samba?
When a user is created on a Mac OS X Server 5.2 (Sierra), it can be created either on:
Local Directory (which is simply a local user)
or
Local Network Directory (which is actually Open Directory ...
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Why does SMB over Mac OS X Server 5.2 (Sierra) work with local accounts but not network directory accounts?
I have an OS X Server 5.2 over which I run File Sharing over AFP and SMB. AFP works fine but the same accounts that work with AFP from Mac do not work with SMB over Windows.
I have changed the ...
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MacOS Server Profile Manager slow to push changes
DNS is fine and I can see in the logs that the server is talking to the laptops but changes sit as 'pending' for a couple of hours before successfully pushing to the machines.
In the Service Helper ...
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HTTPS doesn't work anymore after adding SSLRequireSSL directive
I have a Mac Mini Server, running macOS Sierra (10.12.2) with macOS Server (5.2). This comes with a built-in Apache server, which is set up to listen on ports 80 and 443. This works fine; documents ...
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pf on os x server 10.10 doesn't block addresses added to a table
I'm trying to understand the issue with pf on OS X 10.10 El Capitan.
I have installed sshguard and try to make it work by adding
table <sshguard> persist
block in quick proto tcp from <...
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Configure VPN ciphers on Mac OS Server
I'm trying to harden the L2TP/IPSec VPN on an El Capitan server. All the resources I can find either just walk you through the basic setup (adding a shared key, etc.) or are for third-party servers. ...
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Auth error: Unable to lookup user record
I have notice at mail-err.log that sometimes i get this error for a windows 7 user (that IP belongs to the client, if add more accounts there i will receive more of this errors for each account user):
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My server is compatible with TLS 1.2?
I just need to know if this server i compatible with TLS 1.2, through this message:
remote:~ Xserver$ openssl s_client -connect X:443 -tls1_2
CONNECTED(00000003)
140735304528736:error:1408F10B:SSL ...
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Mount filesystem from MacOS server on Windows
I have a MacOS server with a large RAID attached to it, and I would like people with accounts on the server to be able to read and write to the server from a windows machine through the file explorer.
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Delivery error command sendmail through Getmail
I am trying to receive mail with getmail and reroute it through sendmail to postfix.
I have managed to connect with my external mail server, but it fails when send those mails from getmail to postfix....
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How can I setup automatic renewal for Kerberos tickets and make the ticket life longer, in an OSX Server mail server
I have to renew tickets manually in my server terminal for users to have access to their mail accounts. I am using kerberos as a login authentication to access a local mail server. My local machine ...
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Postfix before-queue spam reject with amavis without sending out a bounce on OS X Server
This is a stock OS X 5.2 Server mail configuration which I'm trying to change to make it reject a spam message with a "554 5.7.0 Reject" before accepting it without sending out any additional non-...
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Authentication works for filesystem but not reverse proxy
I have a Mac Mini with OS X Server 5.1.7 running.
I have a service running locally accessible via http://127.0.0.1:3000/ask (without authentication) and I want to make it available to the outside but ...
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Using a network mount as user home in Mac OS X Server App (v5)
We have an old Mavericks server with a Firewire drive running and about 200 Users (Mac OS Server v3.2.2).
I would like to set up a new server with El Capitan running the latest v5.1.7 Mac OS Server ...
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Mac won't get LDAP users
I have a bit of a problem. I set up an ldap server, that my mac client needs to get users from, but something is blocking it to get the users, when i try to add the server in the users & groups ...
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Server Resources for Apple OSX Server [duplicate]
Looking to find the recommended resource specifications, CPU, RAM, Disk, for running internal DNS and Apple Remote Desktop Task Server within a Mac OS only environment on Mac OSX Server.
As we ...
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launchd script cannot use StandardOutPath to /var/log when run as non privileged user
I'm created a LaunchDaemon script to run backups for our git repos.
I want to run the process as a particular user (git) with the Std & Err logs output to /var/log
I get permission denied when ...
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Configuring Mac Server (El Capitan) DNS with Multiple Sites
I am having trouble confusing multiple sites on Mac Server (El Capitan).
Under "Websites", I want to configure more than one domain. When I add the sites, there are not reachable (i.e. no green light)...
