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Mac OS X S er v er V ersion 1 0.5 Leopa rd Getting Star ted Guide F or Small W orkgroups F ebruar y 2008.
2 Getting Star ted with L eopar d Ser ver in Small W orkgr oups When most people think about the word server , they think about monolithic machines in labyrinthine , air-conditioned rooms keeping e-commerce website s online, or high-per formance machines sequencing the human genome .
3 Licensing Mac OS X Ser ver 1 0-Client Edition. The easiest way to deplo y essential network services, the 1 0-client edition is designed for small workgroups and Int ernet hosting services that do not require simultaneous le sharing among more than 1 0 Mac and PC clients.
4 Y ou Know Where t o Find Me Most consumer broadband Internet services provide you with a dynamic IP address—one that changes an ytime you turn your modem o and back on.
5 Installing Mac OS X Ser ver • Connect the Mac Pr o to the Airport Ex treme. The Ethernet cable will connect one of the ports on the back of the M ac Pro t o one on the back of the Airpor t Extreme. Both ports should be mar ked with this symbol: . • Insert the Mac OS X S erver Install Disc.
6 Getting Help Along the W a y If you need help—or simply want more information—you can alwa ys click the icon on any screen. This brings up a Help window , which you can keep at the side of the Server Assistant window or Ser ver P references pane .
7 A Real Switch-Hitter Y ou can make your Airport base station do double duty as a networked backup device by using Time Capsule fro m Apple . Time Ca psule ta kes the b lazing 802.
8 • Simple Client Machine C onguration. On each Client machine , run the Director y Utility program in /Applications/Utilities. Click the lock icon and en ter the administrator name and password for tha t machine. It should automatically nd the av ailable Director y Server and o er to congure your machine (see abo ve).
9 Go Headless. If you don ’t have a monitor (also known as a “head”) for the Xserve in this conguration, you can contr ol everything remotely from a Mac on the same LAN as the Xserve, connected to the same network switch/hub . Install the Admin T ools from the pro vided Install Disk and use the Ser ver Assistant applica tion.
10 Getting Help Along the W a y If you need help—or simply want more information—you can alwa ys click the icon on any screen. This brings up a Help window , which you can keep at the side of the Ser ver Assistant windo w or Ser ver Pref erences pane.
11 • TCP/IP C onnection. This screen allows you t o enter the IP address and T CP/IP information provided t o you by your ISP or network administrat or . This congura tion pre-supposes a server with two Ethernet ports, one connected to your Internet service, and the other to your local network switch/hub .
12 • Ser ver Backup . If your server has more than one hard drive , Mac OS X Ser ver gives you the option to back up your system, as well as all ser vice data, such as wikis, calendars, mail, and shared les—making it easy to restore y our ser ver in case of system failure .
13 • Set Up Y our VPN. Run the Ser ver Pr eferences application on y our ser ver . Click VPN. Before you can start the ser vice , you’ll need to en ter a Shared Secret (a passphrase) and the starting and ending IP address of a range on your local network (as congured in “ T CP/IP Connection ” above).
14 Getting Help Along the W a y If you need help—or simply want more information—you can alwa ys click the icon on any screen. This brings up a Help window , which you can keep at the side of the Ser ver Assistant windo w or Ser ver Pref erences pane.
15 Co-lo-what-now? Co-location is an IT industry term used to describe a hosting service where you provide the server , and the facility provides the power , rack space , Internet connection, and 24/7/365 monitoring . Scenario 3: L eopard Ser ver on an Xserve in a Co-location F acilit y Y ou’ re small and you ’ re agile.
16 Getting Help Along the W a y If you need help—or simply want more information—you can alwa ys click the icon on any screen. This brings up a Help window , which you can keep at the side of the Ser ver Assistant windo w or Ser ver Pref erences pane.
17 • TCP/IP C onnection. This screen allows you t o enter the IP address and T CP/IP information provided t o you by your ISP or network administrat or . Select “No, congure network settings manually .” Then click Continue . Enter all information pr ovided by the co-location hosting service in the appropriate spaces .
18 • Mail Ser vice. Y ou can opt to either be your o wn primar y email ser ver or to rela y your mail through your ISP’ s outbound mail server . If using this server as a primar y email server , you ’ll need to have that addr ess listed as a Mail Exchanger in your domain provider’ s DNS recor ds.
19 • Pr otect Y ourself . Because your Xserve connects directly to the Internet, we strongly suggest you go to Server Pref erences and turn on the F irewall. But you shouldn ’t check the boxe s for any of your services because y ou’ re connecting to this server only through the Internet, and nev er from its local network.
20 Getting Help Along the W a y If you need help—or simply want more information—you can alwa ys click the icon on any screen. This brings up a Help window , which you can keep at the side of the Ser ver Assistant windo w or Ser ver Pref erences pane.
21 • W elcome. Click C ontinue. F ollowing are all the dialog boxe s you will encounter during the congura tion process: • Ser ver C onguration. Mac OS X Server gives you a choice of three congur ations: Standard , Workgroup , and Adv anced.
22 • TCP/IP C onnection. This screen allows you t o enter the IP address and T CP/IP information provided t o you by your ISP or network administrat or .
23 • Ser ver Backup . If your server has more than one hard drive , Mac OS X Ser ver gives you the option to back up your system, as well as all ser vice data, such as wikis, calendars, mail, and shared les—making it easy to restore y our ser ver in case of system failure .
24 • Simple Client Machine C onguration. On each Client machine , run the Director y Utility program in /Applications/Utilities. Click the lock icon and en ter the administrator name and passwor d for that machine. It should automatically nd the available Dir ector y Ser ver and o er to congur e your machine (see above).
25 The Client Experience Once your server is up and running, it’ s easy to get Mac clients connected and more productive. If you recall, we walked through simple steps f or using Director y Utility to congure each of your client Macs for each sc enario.
26 F or More Information For mor e information about Mac OS X Ser ver and other Apple server solutions, visit www .apple.com/server . © 2008 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Apple, the Apple logo , F ireWire, iCal, iChat, Mac, Mac OS, Quick Time, Xgrid , Xsan, and Xserve are tra demarks of A pple Inc.
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