I’m running ubuntu on a PC, so I can’t use the server admin, or workgroup manager tools. Also, apple doesn’t come with a standard VNC server, instead it uses VNC with some proprietary shit built in, so I had to install vine server to get a remote desktop. Of course, vine server sucks as well, because I can’t get it to start on boot, without logging into the server with either the native server admin tools, or locally with a KVM. Oh wait, the X Serve doesn’t play nice with a standard KVM.
I have an extra mouse and keyboard setting in my rack just for the X Serve. Once you manage to get in the damn thing, if you have any sort of complicated setup at all, you simply CAN’T DO it using the server admin tool. I’ve usually had to bust into the config files just like any other Unix system. Take a look at the SQL section of the Server Admin tool, its a fucking joke. Also, even if you do start to do some things by hand, shit still doesn’t work right. See one of my bug reports here.
http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-server/298314-samba-shares-hfs-extended-attributes.html [macosx.com] The mailing list / blog / colander stuff is also less than impressive. Why the FUCK should I have to wait 15 minutes for my changes to take affect. It this 1982 or some shit? Some changes seem to take much longer than that as well. I waited a whole day for one of my groups to show up.
Why is it that the “recent changes” section of each group shows group emails, even if I turn the mailing list feature off? Oh yeah, last but not least, the server crashes. It responds to pings, still responds to local terminal input, but anything that requires authentication is dead in the water. So that leaves mail, netbios, ssh, server admin, work group manager, etc etc all dead. I think the LDAP server is crapping out, but I haven’t been able to prove it yet.
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