Mac OSX 10.6 Server setup advice

hi all, I was wondering if someone could offer some advise for the setup of a server on a home network.
Here is what I have and what I'm trying to achieve.
Link up 5 macs on a home network,
1 iMac 17" which will run mac server 10.6.8
1 iMac 24"
1 MacBook
2 MacBook Pros 15"
2 iPads
1 iPad 2 .
4/5 iPhones
via an Virgin media 50meg SuperHub connected to a Apple Airport extreme,
I idea I have is to use the older iMac as the server, providing basic file sharing, address book access and remote VPN .
I've installed the server software on the iMac but get a little stuck on the DNS setup side of things.
So far I researched my DNS to find I don't have a static ip and setup a basic service from DyDNS.
I understand that I will have to open the required ports on the superhub to setup the remote access.
I would be greatful is someone can offer some advice with a simlar setup or can point to basic setup guide.
Thanks in advance
Yaddle.

Hi John,
thanks for your advice, I have actually been using the two links you provided,
yet they both lack support for the home user, and all suggest that the users have a static ip address, but this is sadly not the case.
has anyone used . http://www.dyndns.com/about/home_solutions.html
Does anyone use this service at home for their server and which settings did they use ?
This would at least let me think Im working along the right lines.
Im getting stuck with the Primary DNS questions along the setup route from apple setup. : (
thanks again
Yaddle.

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Interval Since Last Panic Report: 8518861 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          1
Anonymous UUID: F1F85B83-6DC2-4E6C-B02C-D1D42F15F321
Wed Jan 25 16:22:19 2012
panic(cpu 3 caller 0x2abf6a): Kernel trap at 0x00926b00, type 14=page fault, registers:
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did it just start but began after "xyz"?
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OS X Snow Leopard Server Community:
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3. Has anyone had any experience creating a renderfarm from a stack on Mac Minis?
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I need some advice to help me setup a 10.5 server.
I am running a linux box for mail, web, dns.
I am also running a 10.5 client (which is going to be the server box) to share drives and runs Retrospect for backup. I also have about 20 macs running 10.5 client as workstations with multiple user accounts on each workstation.
I am now about to setup 10.5 server with network home folders so users can login on any mac and access their email and other documents.
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There are some cool features of 10.5 server that I would also like to provide to users in the future such as wiki, ical, ichat, managed user computers.
In the meantime I just want to do file sharing and network home folders to keep the ball rolling.
Cheers and thanks in advance for your replies. I'm sure that I will be back with some more interesting problems!
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You'll be best off erasing the HD on the machine you intend to use as a Server. You can install OS X Server over an existing OS X installation, but I've never tried, so I won't say if it will work or not.
Apple recommends having a replica server if you are running OD. You don't have to, but it is recommended. It's also a good idea to have one server be the OD Master, and have another machine host network homes - you'll want OS X server on that as well. Again, not necessary, but recommended. At the very least, and if possible, install the Server OS on one HD and the network homes on another. At the very very least, partition a single HD and put the Server OS on one partition and the network homes on the other. Separating the homes from the OS gives you more flexibility when backing up/troubleshooting/re-installing the OS when necessary. Having separate drives/machines for the OS and the home folders will give you speed advantages.
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hi
my xserve g4 for model lost his superdrive cable so i can't install software from dvd's, i placed my new osx leopard software on a usb (16gb).
when i insert the usb the xserve sees it as a usb (16gb), i think thats normal right?. when i open the file on the xserve, the xserve sees it as software, just like normal you get a window with 3 options: install, documentation and other installs, when i click install osx, i get a pop up window with a big grey X on it, and right under it says that i need to restart, with a restart button. when i click that button, my mac restarts but it will not launch the installation, just like i normally start it up. so how do i install the software, my xserve runs 10.3.9 now and thats so old. , i visited every pc store in my city but no one has that required cable, even the premium reseller doesn't know where to get it.
i want to run it as a "studio mac" with logic pro or something like that, so i am looking for a firewire audio interface to, so if you know a good one please tell me.
ooh yeah if someone says its loud, he isn't it nomore, i did something on the connect board from the mobo to the hdd board and the procesoor fan runs much slower now, and the server monitor says: rpm is good (green dot) and the temperature is good (green dot), when i launch some app's it doens't get hot or something just normal temperature
greetings me

Do you mean a firewire flash drive?. Are there othet ways, like copy the software to the hdd and install it from that drive?
By the way thanks for your fast answer

OS X Server setup advice needed for small business

I work as audio engineer at a recording studio. I'm an experienced Mac user, but I don't have Mac Server experience. I'm my company's default IT guy. Our office consists of four people, currently using PCs, but we are changing to a Mac-based office: each person will get an iMac, and we'll also get a Mac Mini with OS X Server. And a Time Capsule for both the Apple router and Time Machine backups. The machines will be connected with ethernet for Gigabit networking.
The server will be used primarily for two things:
1. Server-based scheduling/contact database program that each user will log-in to for access
2. Hard drive for storing audio files that will be delivered to clients (currently FTP delivery)
I'm learning about OS X Server services - there's some great You Tube tutorials by Todd Olthoff http://www.youtube.com/user/tolthoff.
The office users currently run their computers as independent PC's with all files stored on their local machines. The network lets them share files, as well as share two printers. Note that my plan is for each office user to continue to store their files locally on the iMacs, not on the server.
I'm trying to decide how much of OS X services I can take advantage of.
I have some specific questions I'm hoping to get some advice on. These questions came up after viewing Todd's tutorials:
1. Do I need Open Directory
I think I do, in order to create local network users. Is this a given for me?
2. We do not have a static IP address. Do I need to establish DNS services?
3. Do I need a verified SSL Certificate?
This is what I have for starters. Any additional advice is welcome!

Bob Kirschner wrote:
2. Hard drive for storing audio files that will be delivered to clients (currently FTP delivery)
Remember that ftp is wildly insecure, and a very large ftp credentials dump — reportedly including credentials from the New York Times and some other users — was just posted. ftp is a massive pain in the rump around modern networks; the protocol design predates the uniquitious use of firewalls in modern networks.
Read: I'm not a fan of ftp.
Use sftp or VPNs where you can.
1. Do I need Open Directory
I think I do, in order to create local network users. Is this a given for me?
If you want to start using the same login across different Macs in your office, then you want OD.
2. We do not have a static IP address. Do I need to establish DNS services?
You need local DNS services on your LAN (probably established via OS X Server), and you'll need external DNS to allow external folks to get to your file servers, and you'll need static IP from your ISP. If you get to using your own mail, you'll need a proper DNS configuration — forward and reverse DNS translations and the MX record must all match — for that.
3. Do I need a verified SSL Certificate?
Unless you're serving HTTPS or such, no. You don't even need a certificate and can use a self-signed one, if you're small and not serving much publicly from this server, and not doing something like ecommerce, and if whatever you're doing isn't a target for those that want to spoof or crack web sites; if you're not more of a target than most of the rest of us on the 'net.
Any additional advice is welcome!
I'd probably look to add a VPN-capable firewall router box here, and would use the Time Capsule as a so-called Access Point on the network — not as a NAT-capable gateway router. This if you don't already have a router of some sort. Time Capsule makes a nice home router or low-end SOHO router, but it's fairly limited in its features.
You absolutely need LAN-local DNS, and you need that correct and working and tested before you enable other services on your network.
I'd recommend using a real and registered domain on your internal network, and using a separate (and registered) domain outside your network. You can get away with using a subdomain inside, but that means more typing as it's just longer. I'd avoid a made-up domain, as ICANN is adding all sorts of new domains. I'd also avoid squatting on a domain, and never use the .local top-level domain as your own DNS domain. Leave .local to Bonjour only.

Files disappearing Mac OSX 10.8 Server

Files are randomly disappearing in volumes on our Mac mini running OSX 10.8.2 Server

I'm not 100 percent sure that users didn't delete these files, but it would have been an unlikely cooindidence. The files that disappeared were on different partitions of our server hard drive that are not commonly accessed by all users. So for two people to accidentally delete these files within a short period of time seems unlikely to me. Is there a section in the server log that would show if these files were deleted by a user?

Problems with RDP/RDC from Mac OSX to Windows Server 2008 on External IP

We have a customer that is using Mac and Microsoft's RDC for Mac to their servers.
They've just upgraded from Windows Server 2003 to 2008 and can't connect through RDP to their TS server on external IP.
Their servers is not in any domain and it work for them to connect to another Windows Server 2008 that is located in their office when they use internal IP.
The problem is that when using RDC to the external IP they get bellow:
"Remote Desktop cannot verify the identity of the computer you want to connect to. This problem can occur if:
The remote computer is running a version of Windows that is earlier than Windows Vista.
The remote computer is configured to support only the RDP security layer.
Contact your network administrator or the owner of the remote computer for assistance."
From here they can choose "Connect" as they did on the Server 2003 but now they get: "Remote Desktop Connection cannot verify the identity of the computer that you want to connect to.Try reconnecting to the Windows-based computer, or contact our administrator."
and is only able to choose "Ok".
I've changed the settings on the "configuration for host server for remote desktop sessions" under General from "RDP-Security Layer" to "Negotiate" and in this case I get a logon windows where i type in all my information click logon. Here I get another
error message which says something like: (We get it in Swedish). "Connection to the windows-based computer broke since there was a problem associated with the licensificationprotocol... Try to connect again" Where I can choose "Cansel" or "reconect"
but it just keeps poping up if i chose reconnect.
I've tried all settings in the TS server and there is not much to change on the RDP client. We have installed the server certificate on the Mac client but it didn't help.
We've also tried with CoRD and it works fine as RDP from a normal Windows based computer.
The only solution I've found on google is to use CoRD instead but we got problems with that connection since it keep crasching on our computer.
In my eyes the problem is on the security requirements that the RDC for Mac needs but I can't find any inforamtion on MS sites about it.
Greatfull for all tips and trix!

I too was having the problem same as everyone else. However, for me the problem all started when I replaced my SSL certificate that was used/selected in the Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration utility, connections, RDP-TCP Properties. The security
layer is negotiate and the certificate is the one selected on that screen. It was not licensing related.
The certificate had expired and I didn't believe I needed it. But turns out I did, so I had to generate and validate a new one using GoDaddy (though they specifically were not part of the problem). As my Terminal Servers (Remote desktop servers)
do not have IIS installed, I was a bit stumped on how to create a new certificate request. I finally found some instructions on how to create a certificate request using the MMC snap-in, advanced operations, create custom request. The template
chosen was "legacy key", and without boring the rest of the details that part was the root cause of my problem. The legacy key was not able to be processed correctly by the Mac RDC client. Neither the official 2.1.1 client or the 2.1.2 download.
The Terminal Server system event log was showing the following two errors, 36874 and 36888. The first one contained the best details and said: "An TLS 1.0 connection request was received from a remote client application, but none of the cipher suites
supported by the client application are supported by the server. The SSL connection request has failed." Upon searching the internet for that, I found this page which described the legacy key problem:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/3a2d2eec-000d-432a-abd7-6b965268c671
So, my solution most familiar to me was to use IIS and create the SSL certificate request, process that with my 3rd party CA, export the certificate with private key and then import that certificate into all of my terminal servers. Then using the session
host configuration tool, pick the new certificate and the problem was now solved.

How to connect to embedded POSTGRESQL on Mac OSX Lion Server

Hi all,
I've upgraded my Mac OSX 10.6 server to 10.7 server 2 days ago.
My web sites databases are still under MySQL server cause it's still running after the upgrade.
I manage to migrate the databases to PostgreSQL, so i've enabled the wiki from the server.app to launch the PostgreSQL server.
I can see that it's now running through a ps -ef | grep sql and that it's listening on the unix domain socket 5432 with netstat -an | grep SQL in a terminal shell.
The problem is that I'am unable to connect to it.
I tried psql -U postgres, and installed the Navcat for postgreSQL Lite, but they failed to connec to the database server twith the same error :
psql: could not connect to server : Permission Denied
Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
It seems that there is a permission problem on the Unix Domain Socket /var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432.
It has a 0770 permission on it, but i don't know if it's relly the problem.
I've compared with MySQL server, which I am able to manage through Navcat for MySQL Lite without any problem, and the socket permission are 0777 on /var/mysql/mysql.sock.
Does somebody able to connect to the embedded PostgreSQL server ?
Or am I doing something wrong ?
Thanks.

Thanks for your replies.
I was able to connect but not from navcat
sudo -u _postgres psql template1 (or your database name)
I am able to connect using this command too
1. Need to add yourself or the account accessing the database to Postgres Users group (use admin tools)
So I agree that I have to add my user to the _postgres user group, but how do you did ?
Using the admin tools, I did not find this Postgres Users group ?
I don't understand why server's administrators are not members of this group already ...
2. Create a role on database login in as _posgres
Ok, I will do.
3. To login in navcat you need to check socket to /var/pgsql_socket
OK, I've already set the socket in Navcat to /var/pgsql_socket
4. I was unable to enable TCP connection yet
I am unable to enable it too. I tried to modify the config files in /var/pgsql, without success.
I have no firewall on my server too, it's protected by my router's firewall and NAT.
Thanks again for your help.

Mac OSX 10.6 Server setup advice

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