Configure a Leopard client for an Apple Software Update server

To configure a Mac running OS X 10.5 (Leopard) to connect to a local Apple Software Update server, simply use the following command, where servername is the name of your local server that runs Software Update.

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Softwareupdate CatalogURL http://servername:8088/

If you have any problems, verify that you can see the update server by accessing the following URL from the client’s web browser:

http://servername.domain.com:8088/index.sucatalog

If you don’t see an XML-type page come up, you should verify that the Software Update service is running on the server, and that port 8088 is properly configured to allow traffic on your network.

Nov 10, 2008

• Posted by Vasken
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• Apple, client, configuration, server, software update

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