Mac OS X Server: About the Mac OS X Server 10.2.5 Update

Important: Read Before Installing

1. An Admin user password that does not contain spaces or Option-keyed characters is required to install. The password may not be blank. If your password must be changed, then follow these steps: Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu. Choose Accounts from the View menu. Select an Admin user and click Edit User. Type your current password, and press Return. Change the password, and click OK.

2. You may experience unexpected results if you have installed third-party system software modifications, or if you have modified the operating system through other means. This precautionary statement does not apply to the normal installation of application software.

3. The installation process should not be interrupted. Monitor progress by clicking the Detailed Progress disclosure triangle. If a power outage or other interruption occurs during installation, use the standalone installer (see below) from Apple Software Downloads to install. Installation

Installation

There are two ways to update to Mac OS X Server 10.2.5.

Automatic Software Update Installation

You may have been referred to this document by Automatic Software Update. For more information on this feature, see technical document 106704, "Mac OS X: How to Update Your Software".

Because some updates are prerequisites for others, you may need to use Software Update more than once to get all desired updates.

Standalone Installers

An installer is also available from Apple Software Downloads (http://www.apple.com/swupdates/).

Two versions of the installer are available. One is for updating version 10.2.4 to 10.2.5; the other for updating 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, or 10.2.4 to 10.2.5 (a "Combo" update). This document describes the former. If you need to use the Combo update, see technical document 107492, "Mac OS X Server: About the Mac OS X Server 10.2.5 Update (Combo)".


Enhancements delivered with this update

This update delivers enhancements, as outlined below.

Open Directory and Password Server

• Adds a Network Information System (NIS) plug-in for Open Directory, allowing Mac OS X Server and clients to better integrate into this traditional Unix directory structure.
• Import tool (dsimportexport) performance improved when importing users with Password Server passwords.
  Note: Workgroup Manager is currently the only supported tool for exporting user and group information.
• LDAP connections now time out, operating more efficiently in high-volume networking environments. The default timeout value is two minutes. (Applies the LDAPv3 plug-in only.)
• New user accounts that have Password Server passwords and which are created by secondary administrators respect the "Disable login as of mm/dd/yyyy" option.
• Improved Password Server reliability and performance with DIGEST-MD5 authentication, especially after long server uptime.
• Improved performance for Password Server authentications.

File Services

• Improved handling of server volume aliases that have been copied from one user's environment to another.
• Improved Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) client permissions handling related to exclusive access of files. Resolves some instances of messages such as:
  - "<file name> cannot be accessed"
  - "The file may be read-only"
  - "you may be trying to access a read-only location"
  - "the server the document is stored on may not be responding"
  - Example: Microsoft Excel can now open text documents on AFP volumes which were previously affected.
• Prevents two applications on two computers from opening the same file at the same time from an AFP volume with write access. (Carbon supports denyWrite and denyRead/DenyWrite on AFP volumes as documented in "Inside Macintosh", pages 2-17.)
• Improves Classic compatibility by not caching read-write data from the Classic environment to an AFP volume, providing behavior more consistent with Mac OS 9 access to AFP volumes.
• AFP client software works as expected when connecting to Windows 2000 server share points. It is no longer necessary to configure your Windows 2000 share points to be owned by an administrator group.

Client Management and Workgroup Manager

• Updates Workgroup Manager to version 1.2.1.
• Managed Mac OS X clients can use Classic when access to Applications are managed (configured in Workgroup Manager). For reference, see technical document 107450, "Workgroup Manager: Managed Clients Cannot Start Classic".
• Group identification numbers (GID) of users imported into Workgroup Manager are properly retained.
• Resolves a managed client access issue that resulted in the alert message "Couldn't contact Spell Checker" for certain applications.
• Resolves an issue in which Workgroup Manager stopped responding while applying presets after importing users, resulting in "error 14901".
• Improved performance for display of user records in Workgroup Manager.

Server Administration Applications

• Server Monitor now reports RAID status as "degraded" only when applicable on servers with journaled mirrored volumes. See technical document, 107406 "Mac OS X Server 10.2: Server Monitor Indicates Journaled RAID Volume Is 'Degraded'".
• Server Monitor correctly reports CPU temperature of a monitored Xserve.

NetBoot, Network Install, and Network Image Utility

• Network Image Utility may now create installable images of server software.
• Building a NetBoot or Network Install image using the Network Image Utility or other tool requires specific privileges to be set on the source CD. The source CD must have privileges enabled.

QuickTime Streaming Server

• Resolves an SSL-related authentication issue that resulted in the message "The connection was refused when attempting to contact 127.0.0.1:1220".

Networking

• Improves data network performance and transfer rates using IP over FireWire, most noticeable in high-bandwidth usage scenarios.
• For computers other than Xserve, adds support for IP over Firewire, allowing Mac OS X Server to connect to other capable devices via existing IP protocols over Firewire. (Xserve already had this feature, which was introduced for it in January, 2003.)

Core OS

• Mac OS Standard (HFS) CD volumes may be shared using Workgroup Manager.

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