October 4, 2005 - Jason Fleetwood-Boldt

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During a NetBoot, after receiving an IP address from the NetBoot server, the client sends a request for the startup software. What does the NetBoot server deliver to the client at this point, and how?

October 4, 2005 Jason

a boot ROM file, via Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) using the default port 69

(1) Which two network protocols can you use to serve a Mac OS X NetBoot image to clients? (2) What protocol was used in Mac OS 9 and is used to serve a NetBoot Mac OS 9 image? (3) What protocol is used for a Netbook OS X (diskless) image? (4) Is DHCP Required?

October 4, 2005 Jason

(1) NetBoot Mac OS X image: NFS and HTTP (2) Mac OS 9: AFP (3) NetBoot OS X diskless: AFP…

What is the most secure method of ensuring that clients can only print to defined queues? What happens if you dont do this?

October 4, 2005 Jason

Maintain printers on a private network visible only to the server, then train users to send document to a defined…

When a new Mac OS X Server 10.4 computer starts up for the first time, where does Server Assistant look for an XML configuration file (to be used for auto config)?

October 4, 2005 Jason

at the top level of any mounted volume

What does it mean in your shell prompt (terminal) if the last charater of the shell prompt is # (pound) instead of $ (dollar sign)?

October 4, 2005 Jason

That you are logged in as root.

How to troubleshoot a computer with Open Firmware Password enabled

October 4, 2005 Jason

How to troubleshoot a computer with Open Firmware Password enabled If you cannot access the Open Firmware Password application and…

Kerberos – Does kerberos require service discovery to be present?

October 4, 2005 Jason

No, Kerberos is however based on properly domain name resolution.

In Mac OS X – where do kernal extensions (“kext”) load from?

October 4, 2005 Jason

/System/Library/Extensions/

cp, ditto, du, pwd, CpMac — which one of these commands is not installed by Mac OS X 10.3 installer by default, but does get added to your system if you install the developer tools?

October 4, 2005 Jason

CpMac — for copying resource forks and metadata This feature was built-in to OS 10.4 TIgers cp command by default,…

What is the location and name of the kernal panic log file?

October 4, 2005 Jason

/Library/Logs/panic.log

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