What choices are you presented with for configuring Open Directory in Server Assistant?
Standard Connected to directory system Open Directory master (you cannot configure a Replica in Server Assistant)
Describe how to use Access Control lists, how they interact with Owner & Group permissions? Can an owner of a file change the ACL while connected over AFP? What is the Effective Permissions Inspector?
Files and folders are set with POSIX permissions and, if enabled on the volume, can also have File Access Control…
Describe the managed preferences order priority. Scenario is: dock positioned on one side for user, other side for group, bottom for computer. Describe the behavior of what happens when a remote user logs in with managed preferences. What takes priority and how does the OS handle this for preferences that are override?
For managed preferences where the user, group, and computer have different preferences managed, the behavior for each preference is either:…
In OX X Server 10.4, what does FTP support on-the-fly? (encrypt, decrypt, encode, decode, etc…) What is commonly done together and what is not supported?
encode — this has to do with the files with Resource forks (from mac OS 9 typically) which get encoded…
Does OX X Server 10.4 implementation on FTP support CRAM-MD5 and what is CRAM-MD5?
Not supported by FTP. FTP can authenticate Clear text or kerberos
What are preference manifests and how do they extend the concept of managed preferences previous to 10.4 Server? In WGM, where is the never, once, often, always modes and how are they used? How does this relate to preference manifests?
When in Preferences (in WGM), you can manage each preference by user according to never, once or always. (this is…
What is the maximum number of groups you can assign to a single user under OS X Server 10.4?
No limit to the number of groups a user may belong to, however, if a directory is shared via NFS,…
What is a printer pool and how is it used?
you can configure printer pools with multiple printers, for availability and volume. a job sent to a printer pool will…
What is strict locking and you should use it under which protocol environments (AFP, FTP, SMB, etc, combination)? What is oplock?
Whenever using SMB *with* another file sharing protocol. The opportunistic lock (oplock) function allows an application to open a file…
When Any Method is selected in for AFP, describe the attempted ways that an AFP authentication happens and the order in which they happen.
in Server Admin: the choices are Standard, Kerberos, and Any Method. When set to Any Method, AFP will first try…