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Mac OS X Server 10.2.4 Update Available

Posted by pudge on from the now-you-know-what-we-know dept.

Hungus writes "The Mac OS X Server 10.2.4 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, services and technologies: AFP, SMB and NFS file services, DHCP, NetBoot, Open Directory, QuickTime Streaming Server, Sendmail and Workgroup Manager. It prevents Xserve drives from being unmounted while locked, provides digest authentication for WebDAV, management of Energy Saver settings, and supports NetBoot images greater than 2 GB in size. The update also provides the latest Security Updates. It's available via Software Update or for separate download."

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  1. Solid upgrade by CptTripps · · Score: 5, Funny

    This improved a lot of the issues I was having with WebDAV. Nice to see Apple making the changes that we were looking for in an upgrade. DHCP server is MUCH more reliable now! But still no tabbed....wait...wrong app.

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  2. Re:netboot by addaon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Gigabit, standard on most macs: 16 seconds. Even with overhead, 60 seconds max. Still, I agree that it's kinda useless today, and hopefully for a good long time.

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  3. Re:netboot by imac.usr · · Score: 4, Interesting
    For our standard desktop image at work, with things like Office, FileMaker, and so on, the most recent version topped out at well over 2 GB. Note that we won't be netbooting it regularly, but it would be nice to be able to do so on occasion for troubleshooting purposes, and to use NetInstall to just install the whole thing at once.

    Personally, I'm more excited by this part of the update details:

    Support for IP over FireWire. This enhancement enables Mac OS X Server to utilize high speed, low latency interconnects for clustering and IP failover solutions over FireWire. You no longer need to use ports on your gigabit Ethernet switch in order to use IP failover.

    This could be a great solution for building a cluster of server machines while still allowing each one independent access to the network.

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  4. mod_rendezvous_apple source code? by mithras+the+prophet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm hoping that with the release of 10.2.4 Server, apple will post the source to their mod_rendezvous_apple Apache module on the Darwin Server page.
    Nothing there yet, but keep an eye on it... it'd be nice to be able to tweak that module as we see fit.
    (Especially since Eric Seidel's mod_rendezvous code is still not on Sourceforge)

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