Mac Mini Server - No Monitor - Can't purchase HD Movies

I have a Mac Mini Server in a closet that has no monitor. I screen share from a MacBook Pro to use it, and it's the primary iTunes account I access from my AppleTV 2. Because the ATV2 doesn't allow purchases of movies, I have to go to the Mini and buy from the iTunes store. Problem is, when I Screen Share in to make the purchase (HD), it won't let me buy/play because I don't have an HDCP compliant monitor connected.

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I registered my mac mini with my apple id .. still when i check app store in my macbook it is asking me to purchase again.
Can someone clarify ?
- thanks LP.

Yes. What came on your Mini cannot be installed on your other computers. You will have to purchase and download Lion for the MBP. If you wish to install Lion server on the MBP, then you will have to purchase and download Lion Server, too.

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I have bought a mac mini lion server today. I do not have desktops in home, so no monitors.
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I have a MBA late 2010. So, no thunderbolt.
I was hoping connect to it using ssh to execute initial setup to be abble to use remote admin tool.
The problem is that ssh do not accept root connection.
Since I do not have any display at all, the idea would be to turn the server on and setup it. Since it is a server I thought I could do this without any issue.
Linc. In your idea. How should I start mac mini in disk mode and how can I boot the MBA using mini internal drive?
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I also have an old Dome Apple Airport lying around, if you thins can be of use. Or if there is an ultimate solution - i'm willing to buy a new Base station.... - but want to check before i buy.
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really.
thanks
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Many Thanks Both of you. some light has been shed- and some clearly amateur errors uncovered.
I'm now plugging in the Airport Extreme - which i'm hoping should auto configure with regards to ports and stuff.. we'll see- if not i seem to remember reading somewhere that it will on first boot after a fresh install of leo server.
I think the network will now look like this:
/ Mac Mini & External Drives
ADSL - Airport Extreme
\ Switch< Various Macs
What i'm trying to achieve which simply wouldn't work with Port Forwarding is to get a single public dropbox for our clients to collect their files from- At the moment- we upload to our remote server, and they download - whilst a single transfer from us direct to them maybe slower from thier angle - it will still be quicker over all, as we won't have to upload to a remote server.
I would also like my staff to be able to contribute to our in office Wiki - and ical from remote locations... again, this didn't seem to work, no matter how many holes i poked in the firewall.
Mr Hofmann, You've been greatly helpful, I will have a cup of tea now, and read through the link you sent me.
Camelot, i'm taking your advice - setting up the Airport...
What do you guys think would be the ultimate "small scale" set up here?
I am looking at buying a new Mac Pro for one of the 3D guys here, and using his old quad core mac as server - at which point, we'll update kit to all Gigabit stuff.
Again, any words of wisdom much appreciated..
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After a Mac Mini server is setup, can I get the out of box experience by ..

resetting a file or running a program that will go through the setup process again with out doing a reinstall? I don't want/need to preserve any current settings. I just want to run through the setup again.

I was just curious. When I set up the server when I first got it, I wasn't 100% sure what role/options/services to check off and now wonder if I made some incorrect choices. I'm just playing around now and I'm sure I will reinstall. I really bought the mini server (because of the hardware option for the hard drives and memory) to attach to a Metric Halo LIO-8 digital audio processor via firewire for my audio system. I really will not be fully exploiting the features of SL server. I will definitely learn the os as I go along for the fun of it.
Thanks for the help, I'm sure I'll have some question in the future.
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Message was edited by: joeinid for clarity

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Welcome to the Apple community.
It's difficult to say whether your Mac will run Lion, and hence iCloud, without knowing the specifications. The specifications required for Lion are as follows:
An Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor
Mac OS X v10.6.6 or later to install via the Mac App Store (v10.6.8 recommended); you can install without Mac OS X v10.6 by using an OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive, available on the Apple Online Store
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MAC Mini Server Startup Problems

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Below is my the answer to a previous helper. Yes, you need to start with USB before setting your devices to work with bluetooth. Thank you jut the same. Best, Larry
----------------my response-----------
Thanks. You are right. I bought a cheap USB keyboard and mouse and have been doing fine ever since. All's well and working.
There is a rather subdued mention of the need for an initial USB connection in the documentation, however, you'd think that sales--that department is a bit on the weak side--would have said something to me while putting my order together for bluetooth devices only.
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Richard

Beware of using OSX sofware on server.
I planned to use Finale 2010 on my Mac Mini Server 2010 and it does not work.
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I have Xserve Late 2009. It has hardware issues
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Now, the mac min server also discontinued, Can I use the mac mini desktop and installed OS X server separately and will support all 50 users.
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Prem

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(2) The Lion operating system correctly recognizes (in Hardware / Displays) the model of my ViewSonic monitor.
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(4) When fully connected to the KVM, if I switch from my Mac Mini to my MacBook Pro and my Mac Mini display goes to sleep while I am working on my MacBook Pro, when I switch back to the Mac Mini, my monitor backlight will be off (and the power light will be standby yellow rather than the blue on) until I wake my computer up by touching the mouse of keyboard. I wonder if this may mean that the Mac Mini's signalling of the change in status from on to standby is somehow dysfunctional.
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Help! Can't install SSD in my new Mac Mini Server (2012)

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I haven't purchased a Mac Mini at this time and I may not if I can't use it as a non server. I need to update my system I would be better off buying a new Mac with Snow Leopard the last app that will run Rosetta. The Mac Mini Server has a quad 2.0 processor and 4 GB RAM and two internal hard drives and should out perform my dual 1.25 G4. I can run PPC apps on my G4 but it is 8+ years old and seems to be getting noisy. I don't want to tie myself to another old machine. I want a machine that will work with Intel Apps I was hoping that the two hard drives would allow me to boot from the second with Snow Leopard and use Lion on the first drive to be able to keep up to date with all my other universal apps and Mac OS up grades. The application I use the most is my CanvasX app with drawing & vector effects, text & typography, sprite technology, painting, image editing, and multimedia tools are all in this one app but will not be updated to run Intel apps. I am frozen in time because my most valuable Application won't be updated and Apple has cut me off by not supporting PPC in Lion and onward; Apple used to backward support but I guess that they are no longer as user friendly and concerned with a happy user. I have always been a loyal Mac user and I will not migrate to Windows under any circumstance; I hate windows!
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