Best Quicktime Server Set-Up

Hi,
I am trying to deploy a Quicktime server on our network that will be used to broadcast live and archived streams outside to the public.
Currently we have the quicktime server behind our PIX 525 firewall with a static NAT translation to a public IP address. We have opened up the recommended ports and everything is working for some clients.
The problem is that some people simply cannot connect at all, while others have no problems. And still others can connect but are disconnected after exactly 10 minutes every time.
Is this there something wrong with my set-up? Should I be using some kind of proxy server or am I just having firewall config problems?
Thanks for your help!

Well the first thing I would look at is the WiFi, if you are pushing big files Ethernet is the way to go.
A Mac Mini makes a great server (depending on the age) and there dozens of ways to get a speed boost, but Ethernet is the single greatest one.

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RAID levels for the host and the guest(s),
IDE vs SCSI and drivers both non virtual and virtual and the booting there of,
disk caching settings on both host and guests.
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Home Server Set Up - DNS, DHCP etc

Hi
I'm looking to set up a Mountain Lion Server at home.
I have a Lion Server but I think I will wipe it and start again, mainly because I didn't use a particularly good name to begin with. I've read the We Got Served Mountain Lion Server book, Mountain Lion Server for Dummies and Apples Documentation.
I am planning to set up in the following way:
Turn my Virgin Media router 'Modem Only' mode on.
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1 My Mountain Lion Server
2 My 1st Virgin Media DNS Server
3 My 2nd Virgin Media DNS Server (not sure I can set up a 3rd DNS server)
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1 My Mountain Lion Server
2 My 1st Virgin Media DNS Server
3 My 2nd Virgin Media DNS Server (not sure I can set up a 3rd DNS server)
I am not going to use a Google DNS or another open DNS because they are located in the US and this affects caching of internet content.
When I set up my Mountain Lion Server I am in two minds about going for a public internet registered domain or a private domain.
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At a bit of a loss with a two server set up

I've been running a single Xserve (G5) for the last 5 years, but now we have just got one of the last new Xserves to become our main server, I want to keep the old server running light duties, but be ready to take over again as the main server if the new one went down for any reason, but with minimum fuss to switch over. I know because the are different models running different OS X server, I can't have anything like IP failover. But I can't figure out the best way to set this up.
For instance how do you handle port forwarding, would you manually have to go to the router and change all the services to forward to the other server whenever you change? and all the services on the server, I was hoping it would be as simple as turning them back on, but I'm not sure it is because everything is looking for the old server. Just feel in a bit of a muddle.
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iChat
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Doesn't sound like something that would go smoothly in an emergency

You're setting up a failover configuration, and an attempt to increase uptime, and this capability involves the particular implementation of and the configuration of each of the services. Not all services allow this. (Google around for previous discussions of failover. Some cases and some services are ease (eg: DNS), and some cases can get gnarly.)
AFP ( all files stored on Xserve RAID )
Not shared, though with Xsan and shared SAN access, you can fail over via DNS changes.
DHCP
Not shared. Can start another server easily when the active DHCP server fails.
The ISC DHCP server can do DHCP fail-over, and that can be retrofit onto a Mac OS X Server box with a little effort.
Given the usual lease times, you will have some time to get the server back online before problems become systemic, or to activate a standby DHCP server.
DNS
Can inherently be shared; primary and secondary.
iChat
Not shared.
Open Directory
Can be shared; primary and replica.
Web
Not replicated, though with Xsan and shared SAN access, you can fail over via DNS changes.
Kerio Connect
Likely can be clustered and almost certain to allow mail to be queued, but you'd have to check with Kerio for details.
Retrospect
Not likely shared. I do not know the details nor status of Xsan support with this package.
Rumpus FTP server
Not replicated. Likely with Xsan and shared SAN access, you can probably fail over via DNS changes.
There have been previous discussions, so some searching might find some insights. Here is [Failover Cluster Possible?|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11812720], for instance.
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Best practiceS for setting up Macs on Network

Greetings.
We have six Macs on our Windows Server network; three iMacs and three laptops. We have set up all the machines and they are joined to the Active Directory. In the past, we have always created local users on the machines and then "browsed" to the server shares and mounted the them. We've learned things have improved/changed over the years and we're just now realizing we can probably have the machines set up to work better. So, I have a couple of questions for "best practices" when setting up each of the machines.
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2. Should we set the computer to not ask for a “list of users” and instead ask for a username and password for logins?
3. For the user that uses the machine most often, they can still customize their desktop when they use an AD login, correct?
4. Should we set up Mobile User Accounts? What exactly does this do?
Any other advice on how we should best be setting up the clients for our environment to make sure we are following best practices would be great!
Thanks for any help!
Jay

Greetings.
We have six Macs on our Windows Server network; three iMacs and three laptops. We have set up all the machines and they are joined to the Active Directory. In the past, we have always created local users on the machines and then "browsed" to the server shares and mounted the them. We've learned things have improved/changed over the years and we're just now realizing we can probably have the machines set up to work better. So, I have a couple of questions for "best practices" when setting up each of the machines.
1. Since we’re in a network environment, should we not set up “local logins/users” and instead have users login using their AD login? It seems having a local account creates some conflicts with the server since upgrading to lion.
2. Should we set the computer to not ask for a “list of users” and instead ask for a username and password for logins?
3. For the user that uses the machine most often, they can still customize their desktop when they use an AD login, correct?
4. Should we set up Mobile User Accounts? What exactly does this do?
Any other advice on how we should best be setting up the clients for our environment to make sure we are following best practices would be great!
Thanks for any help!
Jay

Best practice to set up the user authorization

Dear expert,
I have a question regarding the user authorization access. I've attend the BOE training but I'm still blur in term of user authorization planning. Currently, I have around 50 named users that need to access the BOE server. But the certain user will be restricted to access to certain folders or reports. May I know what is the best practice to set up the user authorization access? Should I set up first in the development machine and once its firm, then I migrate it to production machine..or is there any steps that I need to follow...?
Really appreciate if you can let me know on what should I look into first before set up the authorization. Is there any doccument that I can referring to..?
Thanks & Regards,
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Create User Group for each folder (for eg. Sales/Marketing etc) and also based on the type of access you want to provide.
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First deploy it in the Development environment, once you have everything finalized then you can replicate the same to QA and Prod environment by migration. Also make sure that in Development environment developers will have full control to develop/add reports to folders, you have to restrict that in QA & Prod environment.

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This is to reiterate the issue originally posted under
this
topic.
Summary: CS3 encoded FLV (using Quicktime movie as source)
stops playing halfway through (likely related to the audio)...
Solution: Set audio of Quicktime movie to 44.100 kHz (not
22.050) sample rate before encoding to FLV.
Continued Issue: Is Adobe working on a fix to the Flash
Video Encoder so that all Quicktime settings are supported?
Question: Any recommendations for the "best" Quicktime
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screen
image
for the two settings windows that you will access), the Sound
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ffmpegX
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Patrick

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2. when it's dirty and the window is closed, a popup says "you have unsaved data, close will lose the data".
My thought is: it must be handled at client side, because not all valuechange is auto submitted. E.g., you type the 1st letter of a string in a input box, the server side does not know it, but save button should be enabled immediately.
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What is the best way to set up iTunes on our home network so all family members have access to all of our itunes library, even music we don't have on the cloud?

I have five different people using 10 different apple devices on one itunes account in our family. We have had trouble sharing. What is the best way to set up itunes on our home network? We have purchased music that sits on icloud, but we also have music we have imported from our previous cd library. Our itunes program keeps crashing and dumping everyone's playlists. So far we have all been using just the one desktop computer to sync to because we can't figure out how to share the same librarly and playlists on multiple computers in our home so devices can be synced at any location as well as playlists and purchases be made.

What is the best way to set up itunes on our home network?
One iTunes library per person. One iTunes account per person.
If people wish to share songs, they can make copies.
When the inevitable day comes when the kids get older, you will not have to come back here and post asking how all that stuff can get separated!

Best Policy for Setting up Media Centers

Hi Everyone,
Well after after re doing my whole media center with ATV and iTunes I would like to setup up a forum for Best Practice on setting things up. I encourage everyone to please add to it if you think of better ways to do things.
The reason for me doing this is for newbies or for longtime users who are always looking for better ways to set things up. I think doing this for all ATV, iTunes, Macbook OS and anything to do with anything is a good idea. Then people won't have to do the trial and error that much which would save TIME and headaches and cursing Apple for why they just don't make things easy.
Quick Overview of My Setup.
ATV = 160 Gig with 2.2 setup
iTunes = 8
Syncing and Streaming to ATV with Windows XP. I have 2TB external drives. Now since I want all my media (music, movies, videos) library to be consolidated into one big Drive I decided to use the Extended Drive feature in XP when formatting the new drive. What this does is setup one Volume (in my case the E:\ Drive) and using to External Drives to do so. This way it shows up as one Drive with 2 TB instead of having to drive letters with 1 TB Each.
Ibook G4 = Streaming Content to ATV
G4 Tower = Streaming Content to ATV
Macbook Pro = Streaming Content to ATV
iPhone 3G = Sync with Macbook Pro
iPod Video = Sync with Windows XP iTunes
2 Shuffles = Sync with Windows XP iTunes
Now since I redid my whole setup, I just want to post it and see your feedback on Everything.
- I have my library on the External Drive (since I don't want the Internal Drive on my laptop to be tied up so that the OS performs faster) I allocated 90% of storage space for the iTunes folder.
- I left 10% of the Drive to allow me to download any movies, music, albums, Videos in a stage I like to call "Pre ATV Ready" (Pre ATV Ready means I have not yet converted the files to either AAC (my preference) MP4 or M4A.
- I use Xilisoft DVD Ripper to convert my DVD into MP4 Format so that I can play it on ATV.
- I use Xilisoft Video Converter to convert avi, mpeg, wmv, videos into M4A format for the iPhone. Since I sync my iPhone with my Macbook Pro I do one of the following to get it to my iPhone. I either convert it in Windows XP (VMWARE version of Windows on Macbook Pro) then I copy to my OS X iTunes then sync it with iPhone. Option 2 I copy the Windows XP (sync with ATV) file into my Macbook Pro. (Of course you will have to share the Drive in Windows in order for Apple OS to see the drive)
- Once the files are converted I add to my iTunes library
- On my Windows XP (sync with ATV) I Sync only my Music, Videos, Pictures.
- I stream my Movies. (Since 160 is the biggest Hard Drive ATV has I am not going to copy Movies there for obvious size limitations. Why Apple does not allow you to use the USB on the back for hooking up External Hard drives and only utilize for Service from Apple Genius is beyond me but nonetheless that is another animal all together)
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For Example, I have one Activity called Media Center. I have configured the Remote to do the following with just one Click of the Button:
1- Dim my living room lights (obviously you have to have dimmers with sensor in order for this to work)
2- Change the Input on the TV in order to display the ATV
3- Linked the ATV with Harmoney remote so that I get all the functions that the with remote does
4- Turn on my Receiver
5- Change input on Receiver to AUX in order to listen to the ATV
6- Mute the TV sound so that only sound comes from the Home Media Speakers
7- Turn on my AC with Climate Control.
You just want to make sure that the remote sensor points to the Device in order for it to work properly.
This way you don't have to use 20 remotes in order to duplicate this whole process. I have the Harmoney One which I paid 249 for. It has LCD Touch Screen and built in button lights (like the Macbook Pro) that lights up based on motion Sensor so you can see all the buttons in the dark
Well in a nut shell that is what I am doing. Please feel free to add to this any comments that you have or suggestions that you may have

I updated the subject since I didn't notice much Traffic to the forum

What Is The Best Way To Set Up Kids iTouch To My iTunes?

I have an iTouch set up with my iTunes music, movies and apps, but now I gave my kids each an iTouch.
What is the best way to set up there account, should it be a unique account for each of them or should I put them under my account?
They will be using my same iMac when they sync or update there iTouch, so will they need to log in under their name every time?
Not sure what is the best way to set this up, they are both minors, i.e. no credit card.
Thanks

Better just your account for multiple devices. The only drawback is that the music will have to managed manually.
Connect one of the iPods to your computer then launch iTunes. You should see the iPod under Devices on the left side of the iTunes window. Double click then you can name each iPod to keep them separate but only syncs to your iTunes account.
Without knowing your Apple ID user name and password they would not be able to make purchases ergo no downloads you aren't aware of.
How to use multiple iPods, iPads, or iPhones with one computer
The kids are minors.. if they are under 13 years of age, according to Apple, they can't have their own accounts regardless.
http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html#GIFTS

What is the best way of setting up Family Sharing?

I just bought my son an iPad Mini and I am trying to decide on what is the best way of setting it up for him. The one thing I do know is that I do NOT want all the content that is my iPhone 6 to pop up on his iPad Mini. I want his iPad to be used for his games and educational stuff and his own music. I don't mind setting up a family photo album and share photos with the family. So is the Family Sharing option the best way of doing this based on what I just mentioned? Do I set him up with his own Apple ID? If so will everything still be based off my account so he won't have to create his own iTunes Library?
I always use iTunes gift cards to purchase music and content. Will I be able to continue to use them even if I want to put some new content on his iPad and not my iPhone? Do I enter in his Apple ID info. Can you restrict certain family members to just certain things for example you only want to share photos with one person whereas you might want to share your music with another family member?
Any suggestions on the best way of setting this up would great!
Thanks!

Hi DVX100Shooter,
Congratulations on getting your son a new iPad, I am sure he will enjoy it.
Family Sharing is one way of managing both purchases and content between members of a related group of people. Each member must have their own Apple ID. You can choose what music you wish to share with the family from your own account. See this article -
OS X Yosemite: Share purchases with your family
In particular the section titled Hide a purchase from other family members
The music library on your son's iPad is separate from yours, but under Family Sharing you agree to pay for all purchases made through the iTunes store. If you wish to control what is purchased you can set up the Ask to Buy option for any family member under adult age in your location. See this article for details -
Request and make purchases with Ask to Buy - Apple Support
Gift cards may not be used for billing of purchases under family sharing, with the exception that a family member may use gift cards to purchase their own content. See this article for information about Family Sharing billing policies -
Family purchases and payments - Apple Support
The shared family photo album is available to all family members.
Family Sharing - Apple Support
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

Our granddaughter has a ipod. She's getting a iphone and a mini idpad. what is the best way to set them up. Does she need a new apple id and password or would she use the same one she has for her ipod

our granddaughter has a ipod. She's getting a iphone and a mini idpad. what is the best way to set them up. Does she need a new apple id and password or would she use the same one she has for her ipod

Just use the same one on all devices.

What is the best way to set up iTunes to deal with a massive media library?

I have a really big media library...probably 7k-10k digital photos, close to 1,000 ripped CDs, and over 600 ripped DVDs, all stored on 1.5TB external hard disks in a 4-drive enclosure.
Due to a recent technical glitch, I find myself installing a new drive and moving the current library. My question is, what is the best way to set up iTunes' settings to deal with a media library that is both external to the Mac on which it runs, and spans multiple physical hard disk units?
I generally like the idea of iTunes organizing my library for me (i.e. keeping everything in Media Type>Artist>Album folders via the "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder), but I'm not sure how that's going to work spanning multiple drives.
I just figure since I'm basically starting over with my iTunes installation, maybe there's a better way to do it.
Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.

You can set them up as a software RAID using Disk Utility.
It'll simply be one large disk for all intents and purposes.

What's the best way to set up new imac for logic etc?

In brief:
Getting new imac (27", 3.4 i7, 8-16GB ram, 1TB HD). Will be using it mainly to run Logic Studio (loads of plugins) and Final Cut Express. I also have 2 external Hard drives one 500G one 1TB.
The last imac I bought was my first and just went ahead and threw everything at it not really knowing where things should go. This time I want to set things up correctly.
Basically, with what I've got, what is the best way to set things up. I.e where do I put logic files, samples, BFD2, Amplitube etc. Where do I put videos for use in FCE. Storing projects and backups for use with Time Machine.
Also noticed the new imac will only have 1 firewire port. I will need to plug in the Hard drives (daisy chained), camera and RME Fireface 800. Was thinking of getting a Thunderbolt Hard drive but they are expensive and hard to find.
Would really appreciate any help before I get the new machine and start messing things up again.
Thanks.

Adding to babowa, enable the system firewall in System Preferences>Security>Firewall tab. Click Advanced and check Stealth Mode.
Lion is a pretty steady and secure operating system, and as there really aren't MANY Mac viruses, there ARE viruses out there still. OS X is pretty good about letting you know if you do accidently download a virus, and it will help you throw it away if it detects one, such as the MACDefender virus. OS X has built in security features such as sandboxing that doesn't allow viruses in as easily as a Windows PC. As for hackers, as long as you have the firewall enabled and a secure password (for your computer and email accounts), then you should be fine.
It's the user that lets the virus in, not the computer (unless there's some untold serious vulnerability in OS X, which is highly unlikely). Keep your apps up to date, don't download pirated software, and be street smart on the internet. Don't download things or visit websites that you don't think are real. Safari includes a Phishing feature that automatically detects known phishing sites, protecting you from that big problem. Keep your passwords secure and you should be fine.
There are antivirus solutions out there, one notable one available in the AppStore is Intego's VirusBarrier (free and plus versions), if you feel you still need one.
I wouldn't worry about it. Windows users who switch to Mac are always asking these questions.
Here's some good reading as well
http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is/security.html
Enjoy OS X Lion

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