Beginner question: setting up a small lab

I have a small research lab with several Mac Pro and PowerMac workstations, all running leopard. I just installed Mac OS X server 10.5 on one of the machines. I need a quite simple setup, but got lost in the huge pile of documentation. I can read manuals, but would be very thankful if you can direct me to the right direction. The question: What is the minimal sequence of operations needed for the following setup:
1. Set up a set of user accounts on the server.
2. Configure all the machines to allow these users to login.
3. Have the home directory of all users on a volume in the server.
That's all for now - nothing else. I found some answers in the "Managing users" manual, but not enough to be able to do so.
Thanks very much

Well, I don't have a step-by-step manual for you, but I'll try to point you in the right direction. Feel free to post back with more specific questions about different parts of the setup process.
The basic steps to follow -
Install 10.5 Server, run the setup assistant (automatically), make the server a standalone server, and only start DNS. Reboot.
Once you've rebooted, configure DNS. You need a FQDN (fully qualified diomain name - if you didn't already know) for your server. Something like macserver.mydomain.net
10.5 server relies heavily on DNS, so you really do need to do this.
Once DNS works, and you can do a forward and reverse lookup of your server, you can promote the server to OD Master then turn on AFP and whatever other service you need.
If you've already turned services off and on and fought with the server for a while you should probably start over.
Once your server gets this far, you can start adding users via WGM and setting their home folder paths. It's best to avoid long path names, (there's a limit of 80something characters for network home paths, or at least there was up through 10.4 server) so creatuing a folder at the root of the server HD (or whatever HD you're storing stuff on) and put user homes in there.
Once that's set, you use DirectoryAccess on 10.4 and earlier to bind the client Macs to the OD Server. 10.5 clients use Directory Utility. The 10.4 and 10.5 clients pretty much automagically set themselves up once you use the LDAP plugin in DirectoryAccess/Directory Utility to enter the server's IP or FQDN. 10.3 clients take a little more work.
AFP548.com is a great resource for tips, and you can find a lot searching through here. I also found a web site that has a lot more detail than I just provided it - I have it bookmarked somewhere else - I'll post it if I remember.
hope this gets you started,
Jeff

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Does FIOS internet usage affect FIOS TV signal quality? (I have 20/5 service). Negative. The FiOS signal itself is only affected by physical damage and or equipment failure on our network equipment. Now if you you are talking inside of your house signal(there is a difference). VOD on FiOS is a strictly data service and is very bandwidth intensive due to the large size of the file itself. That is why we recommend you only watch one HDVOD at a time as the MOCA network in your house can't really handle two running at the same time with 100% QoS. So if I understand you correctly, VOD could be affected by heavy home network useage (or simultaneous VOD requests) but DVR recordings or live TVnot, or just less likely? That is correct. VOD services can be affected by heavy home data network useage. The live TV and subsequent recordings made of the liveTV to a DVR will not be affected by heavy home network useage.
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Can the IR remotes be programmed to run just DVR1 or just DVR2 if you put two in the same room (i.e. different code set for remote 1 and remote 2)? I note about 4 different remotes shown on the FIOS website, does the HD DVR have RF capability or will only IR remotes work with it? No the FiOS remotes are pre-programmed to work on every single FiOS STB. You could take your FiOS remote to another FiOS user's home and control their STB. Makes for some interesting fun. But it is all IR, right? The DVR's won't accept an RF remote signal? It is all IR.
Can channels be locked out on the guide so you don't see them, both adult and ones that you just aren't interested in? If you can lock them out of the guide, does that mean they won't show up in searches as well? There is currently no way to remove channels from the normal guide. We used to support this feature with our old guide produced by microsoft but the feature was left out of IMG. We have given the option for customers to setup multiple channel lists in guide format under the favorites option. You can set the guide button to pull up the first of those lists instead of the guide itself. You can lock the channels out but the titles will still be readable by anyone looking.
The "Welcome kit" PDF talks about being able to resolve timer conflicts for series, but I assume you can also assign priority to one time events and/or access a general recording schedule where you can manually resolve conflicts as well. Is that correct? Does the recording automatically pad sporting events with extra time on the end or do you have to set that up manually with each sporting event? Yes our recording schedule does will recognize recording conflicts. There will be a marker on the program in the guide informing you of a recording problem. There is also a section in the menu of the dvr that will show you the entire recording schedule with any conflicts. Yes you can set priority to whatever you want. No we do not pad for sporting events. That is something you will have do manually. Unfortunatly i do not see this changing anytime soon as it appears to be a limitation of our current guide data producer.
No OTA tuner in any FIOS DVR, correct? Correct.
The VOD descriptions say movies are "rented for 24 hours", but on the VOD list it shows a lot of older movies for free on top of the TV series,sporting events, etc.. Are these all just previews or is there a good inventory of free movies? In all honesty the free VOD movie selections are pretty limited and most of them are independent flicks or trailers. As soon as our HD on demand library is at an acceptable volume i believe we will be working in improving this aspect of VOD. The subscription based movie packages is where it is at though. The movie packages have pretty sizeable libraries that you get access to for free with the packages. Personally, i am partial to the Showtime on demand library(lots of good series). Please keep in mind though that our VOD library will change very frequently. VOD content is provided to us by the network that wishes to put it up. They can also will us to take it down as well.
I'll probably think of a few more, but that's it for now.
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Really beginner question - i think

I've had my iPhone and iTunes for ages. I have a iMac and a Macbook air. I only use my iMac for my iPhone.
My best friend just bought and iPhone, its up and running and he wants some apps. Believe it or not, he does not have a computer. So he is going to hook it up to my Mac air and get an iTunes account that way. Works for both of us because I'm eventually going to get the smaller Mac Air (mine is 1st gen) and he will get this older Mac Air.
However I'm sure I've opened the iTunes on the Mac Air before but I've never synced my phone to it. So my question is this: Will it automatically list his phone as one of mine? (we don't want that) Will it erase anything on his phone? Is there anything else I should know about doing this?
Thanks for your help!
Susan

susan-kelly wrote:
... he will get this older Mac Air.
in that case, i would do this:
(a) create a new user account on the MBA (might as well make it an admin user account)
(b) while in his user account, set him up with a new iTunes store account
(c) let him use his iTunes store account in his user account to purchase content for his iPhone to keep both your purchases strictly separate
(d) before you give your MBA to him, you might want to delete your user account
click here and have a look @ *method one*.
edited by the Jolly Green Giant (where Green stands for environmentally friendly)

Beginner question for Internal website

Can the internal website be set up so that someone outside the company's intranet can log in? Our company has need for a website to distribute information to all employees, many of whom are not users of the company intranet. We have Small Business
Server 2011.
Sorry for the naive question, can't find a clear answer to this question.
Roy Lambertson

You can set them up a user account, that can only access the Intranet. (Companyweb)
Then have them go straight to https://remote.yourdomain.com:987
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