Greetings one and all! Here at Hamilton College, we recently procured a high end XServe for use with our language materials. Two quad core processors, 8 GB's of Ram, and tons of hard drive space paired with OS X Leopard. The server is fully patched. There are two issues we're facing. The first one is a web-based one. Currently the server operates as a file server, but we want it to do more. I'm having an issue getting the web interface to work correctly. The control panel that turns on the web services crashes when I activate the service. The panel itself is fine - but the web service "turn on" sequence crashes & burns and won't turn on. The second issue we're having is an issue with permissions. We want to be able to share the media files we have on campus, but need them to be password protected due to copyright issues. I prefer to keep the server away from the "active directory" servers on campus - I've heard bad things about it. I'd rather not add to a situation more variables. Any ideas? Jeremiah Spoon Language Center Coordinator/Technologist 315.859.4792 Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> Received: from mailer.hamilton.edu by listserv.dartmouth.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <[log in to unmask]>; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:29:32 -0400 Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.mail.hamilton.edu by mail.hamilton.edu (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) id <[log in to unmask]> for [log in to unmask]; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:29:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cj-150-209-88-96.hamilton.edu (cj-150-209-88-96.hamilton.edu [150.209.88.96]) by mail.hamilton.edu (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <[log in to unmask]> for [log in to unmask]; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:29:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:29:29 -0400 From: Jeremiah Spoon <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Hamilton Language Center XServe Questions Sender: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Message-id: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_7nQMnaeHWx5h5ZUnHRG7RA)" --Boundary_(ID_7nQMnaeHWx5h5ZUnHRG7RA) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Greetings one and all! Here at Hamilton College, we recently procured a high end XServe for use with our language materials. Two quad core processors, 8 GB's of Ram, and tons of hard drive space paired with OS X Leopard. The server is fully patched. There are two issues we're facing. The first one is a web-based one. Currently the server operates as a file server, but we want it to do more. I'm having an issue getting the web interface to work correctly. The control panel that turns on the web services crashes when I activate the service. The panel itself is fine - but the web service "turn on" sequence crashes & burns and won't turn on. The second issue we're having is an issue with permissions. We want to be able to share the media files we have on campus, but need them to be password protected due to copyright issues. I prefer to keep the server away from the "active directory" servers on campus - I've heard bad things about it. I'd rather not add to a situation more variables. Any ideas? Jeremiah Spoon Language Center Coordinator/Technologist 315.859.4792 *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************