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For all you Super Users out there. You have backups, right?
Mar 17, 2011 12:44
@Sathya Not a very good place to find Mac OS X Server sysadmins...they seem to be a rare breed
Mar 17, 2011 12:29
Hello everyone, Is this a good place to search for a good Mac OS X Server admin, one that has a very good understanding of apple systems and integration?
 

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Mar 17, 2011 12:43
now i'm back to square one, reading the forums for the last two days, opening up terminal to try some old fix from a two year old post... :(
Mar 17, 2011 12:42
i don't understand... shouldn't the SMB server take care of the permissions for me... what on earth did i set them up in there in the first place...
Mar 17, 2011 12:40
i've right clicked on the folder, Get Info went down to permissions and propagated ownership to everything beneath...
Mar 17, 2011 12:39
sometimes access denied with permissions errors...
Mar 17, 2011 12:39
BUT when they try to write they get a disk full error
Mar 17, 2011 12:39
click share... everything seems ok... xp machine map as network drive and each log in with their own account...
Mar 17, 2011 12:38
when we configure SMB, we add the group as the share owner and so on
Mar 17, 2011 12:37
@TomOConnor it's raid 1
Mar 17, 2011 12:36
@TomOConnor software raid
Mar 17, 2011 12:36
it goes like this... DNS is running, Opendirectory running, Kerberos running, LDAP running, Users added to workgroup done
Mar 17, 2011 12:35
mac shop and some old workstations on windows yes
Mar 17, 2011 12:31
smb share is on one server ... the other have www and other resposabilities
Mar 17, 2011 12:31
and one group...
Mar 17, 2011 12:31
for now users are on just one server
Mar 17, 2011 12:31
nobody can write to them...
Mar 17, 2011 12:30
tried to configure SMB shares...
Mar 17, 2011 12:30
well... we have come face on with ACLs and POSIX permissions...
Mar 17, 2011 12:30
.7 is beta i think
Mar 17, 2011 12:27
yes
Mar 17, 2011 12:27
Mac OS X Server 10.6.6
Mar 17, 2011 12:26
We can't seem to find anyone with a complete understanding of the system...
Mar 17, 2011 12:26
odesk
Mar 17, 2011 12:25
odes maybe... but that's no good
Mar 17, 2011 12:25
one-off
Mar 17, 2011 12:24
not an actual job... consulting... you name your price... if you're good... we pay :D
Mar 17, 2011 12:24
we're read the manuals... configured the bits... but we're having problems and we don't know how to fix them...
Mar 17, 2011 12:23
3 Mac mini servers... architecture office.
Mar 17, 2011 12:23
Europe... we have a guy here who's doing the bulk of the work...
Mar 17, 2011 12:22
Mac OS X Server...
Mar 17, 2011 12:21
Mac os x server!
Mar 17, 2011 12:20
where is the best place to search for a good Mac OS X sysadmin?
Mar 17, 2011 12:19
Hello everyone,