New to Leopard Server

Hey everyone,
I'm really new to Leopard server and would like just a moment of your time to walk me through the setup process. I don't understand some of the installation steps.
What I want to do is use my mac mini as a server. I want to use all the features of Leopard Server. I would also like to be able to access my server from work.
My mac mini is connected via ethernet and I do not have a static ip address. I read that I might need a DNS. Where can I get one?
If anyone could help me with this, I would be forever grateful.
Really struggling here guys. Step by step instructions would be a great help too.
Thank you in advanced.

Hi
A good place to start is here:
http://support.apple.com/manuals/#serversandenterprisesoftware
You could consult this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7602817&#7602817
Might prove useful/informative? You don't 'get' DNS as such from anywhere if you don't want to. If all this server is ever going to do is 'serve' a private network (LAN) then you can make up your own. However:
+"I want to use all the features of Leopard Server"+
Would this mean Web/Mail/Wiki/Blog/Calendar Services? In which case you will need to purchase and register a public domain. One of your own choosing based on something memorable to you. There are hundreds of web-based companies offering to sell you a domain. Google for them. Here's one you could use:
http://www.123-reg.co.uk
Or consult this list:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=Domains&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
+"I would also like to be able to access my server from work"+
Ideally you should purchase a fixed external IP address as ultimately it will be better for you especially if you're planning to run your own mail server. If that's not possible use DynDNS:
http://www.dyndns.com/
However you may find some recipient mail servers rejecting mail coming from your domain if you go for this option? A quality 'pro-sumer' router/firewall would be advisable as well.
+"Step by step instructions would be a great help too"+
Yes that would be nice for the rest of us as well!! AFAIK there are no 'step-by-step instructions. Think about it - how could there be? Everyone's environment and requirements are different. What works for one may not necessarily work for another.
If this is something you want to do all yourself the best advice I can give you is to read as much as you can regarding not only OSX Server and the Mac platform but also other Server products/platforms, Routers, Firewalls, NAT, TCP/IP, Routing, Switches, Networks in general and at least some idea of how to use the command line. What I've mentioned is just to begin with.
You should also consider augmenting your skill set with some knowledge of scripting. It's a useful 'arrow' to have sometimes.
Tony

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---BEGIN vpnd.log---
2009-11-03 20:03:32 EST Incoming call... Address given to client = 192.168.0.213
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Tue Nov 3 20:03:33 2009 : rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x4e96b584> <pcomp> <accomp>]
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Tue Nov 3 20:03:33 2009 : sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x4e96b584> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Nov 3 20:03:36 2009 : sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0x38278225> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Nov 3 20:03:36 2009 : rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x4e96b584> <pcomp> <accomp>]
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Tue Nov 3 20:03:36 2009 : sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x4e96b584> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Nov 3 20:03:39 2009 : sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0x38278225> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Nov 3 20:03:39 2009 : rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x4e96b584> <pcomp> <accomp>]
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Tue Nov 3 20:03:39 2009 : sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x4e96b584> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Nov 3 20:03:42 2009 : sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0x38278225> <pcomp> <accomp>]
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Tue Nov 3 20:03:42 2009 : sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x4e96b584> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Nov 3 20:03:45 2009 : sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0x38278225> <pcomp> <accomp>]
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Tue Nov 3 20:03:45 2009 : sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x4e96b584> <pcomp> <accomp>]
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Tue Nov 3 20:03:57 2009 : sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x4e96b584> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Nov 3 20:04:00 2009 : sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0x38278225> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Nov 3 20:04:00 2009 : rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x4e96b584> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Nov 3 20:04:00 2009 : lcp_reqci: returning CONFACK.
Tue Nov 3 20:04:00 2009 : sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x4e96b584> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Nov 3 20:04:03 2009 : LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Tue Nov 3 20:04:03 2009 : Connection terminated.
Tue Nov 3 20:04:03 2009 : PPTP disconnecting...
Tue Nov 3 20:04:03 2009 : PPTP disconnected
2009-11-03 20:04:03 EST --> Client with address = 192.168.0.213 has hungup
---END vpnd.log---
On the client I'm seeing this in the logs
--- BEGIN ---
3/11/09 8:03:32 PM pppd[12074] pppd 2.4.2 (Apple version 314.0.2) started by root, uid 502
3/11/09 8:03:32 PM pppd[12074] PPTP connecting to server 'server.example.com' (10.0.1.1)...
3/11/09 8:03:33 PM pppd[12074] PPTP connection established.
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3/11/09 8:04:03 PM pppd[12074] LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
3/11/09 8:04:03 PM pppd[12074] Connection terminated.
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3/11/09 8:04:03 PM pppd[12074] PPTP disconnected
3/11/09 8:04:03 PM pppd[12074] PPTP disconnected
3/11/09 8:04:03 PM pppd[12074] PPTP disconnected
--- END ---
Any ideas?

Well, this didn't last long. The VPN is already down. Cannot connect to it again.Very Frustrating.
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Jan 7 10:26:33 SnowServer racoon[118]: Connecting.
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Jan 7 10:26:33 SnowServer racoon[118]: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Responder, Main-Mode message 2).
Jan 7 10:26:33 SnowServer racoon[118]: IKE Packet: receive success. (Responder, Main-Mode message 3).
Jan 7 10:26:33 SnowServer racoon[118]: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Responder, Main-Mode message 4).
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Jan 7 10:26:55: --- last message repeated 6 times ---
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Jan 7 10:27:57 SnowServer racoon[118]: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Responder, Main-Mode message 2).
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Jan 7 10:27:58 SnowServer racoon[118]: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Responder, Main-Mode message 4).
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Jan 7 10:28:28 SnowServer racoon[118]: IKE Phase1 Failure-Rate Statistic. (Failure-Rate = 100.000).
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2010-01-07 10:12:13 EST Loading plugin /System/Library/Extensions/L2TP.ppp
2010-01-07 10:12:13 EST Listening for connections...
2010-01-07 10:12:13 EST Listening for connections...
I have a call with Apple Support this afternoon. Hopefully it will be fruitful. If I get anywhere, I will post it. If anyone has any bright ideas, they would be greatly appreciated.
Message was edited by: AeroJet

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It sounds like there are two compounding errors here.
• www.my1stdomain.com. as machine and IP as value
• www.my2nddomain.com. as machine and IP as value
By definition, www.my2nddomain.com cannot be a record in my1stdomain.com's zone.
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Secondly.
I have defined the following 2 sites and point each of them to a different folder:
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• my2nddomain.com
If you want to access the site via 'www.my1stdomain.com' (or 'www.my2nddomain.com') then your site needs to be setup for www.my1stdomain.com, not my1stdomain.com
As far as the web server is concerned, 'my1stdomain.com' is a completely different address (and therefore a different site) from 'www.my1stdomain.com. While most poeple set them to the same it is entirely appropriate and valid for them to be two different sites as far as the web server is concerned.
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Perhaps a business server should be set up differently than a school since I doubt everyone in an office, even if you had 30 people in the office would be logging out at exactly the same time like a classroom of 30 kids.
Question is then what do some of you feel is the best way to setup an OSX 10.6 server for a school of 400 kids. The kids have access to the lab which will have 30 new imacs, a classroom set of computer (emacs running Tiger) and a set of laptops running 10.5.
I don't want real intricate details but some overall guidelines. Oh, I have 1000 mb/s routers and switches.
Also, as as sidelight, is there anything wrong with mirrored HDs? If one goes bad the other takes over immediately. If a Panther server could do this, wouldn't this be okay for a snow leopard server?
Thanks for any advice you can offer.
Bob Barr

Hi Bob
You've had no takers so far so here's my tuppenceworth:
+"is there anything wrong with mirrored HDs?"+
No not really. Bear in mind a RAID Mirror is not a backup.
+"If one goes bad the other takes over immediately?"+
If you want to put it that way. The secondary mirror is an exact 'copy' of the primary. If the primary fails the mirror takes over (with little or no perceived downtime). Mirrors are generally considered 'slower' than Stripes. Two writes instead of one. But that's the price you pay for redundancy. What plans have you made if both drives fail? Consider the worst possible scenario and depending on budget plan for it.
+"If a Panther server could do this, wouldn't this be okay for a snow leopard server?"+
Yes. Software RAID is also available in the client OS.
If I've understood your post correctly the XServe is populated with 3 drives? Have you considered Apple's Hardware RAID Card? This would offer Performance and Redundancy - RAID 5. You would still need a backup strategy/plan.
In an environment like yours - generally - I would mirror the drive used for data and install the OS on the other drive. Apart from the system don't store anything else of importance on it. You could compliment this with an externally attached firewire drive (or two) if you wish? One as a nightly or weekly or monthly scheduled clone/backup of the Server OS itself and similarly one for the Data. That way if the Server drive goes down Student Data is not affected. Replacing the Drive and getting the server up and running again should not take too long if that happens.
Depending on how many simultaneous logins you're trying to provide for then you may want to consider Replicas for load balancing purposes? is it safe to assume 380 kids = 380 workstations?
Educational needs in general are different to Business ones. Based on what you're saying it makes no sense (for me) to cache student profiles locally - unless it's for performance reasons? If Students are not going to be impacting the network bandwidth with video editing/rendering etc leave their profiles on the server. Management in many ways is simpler/easier that way. Yes multiple simultaneous syncing at log out does/will have an impact on the network as a whole although you can control what gets synced. There's no need to sync everything.
Another way of doing this is to have students log in locally with a standard 'generic' student account. They work as normal and save/upload their data to their Server-based home folder. Access to the parent folder housing student homes can be defined as an auto-mounting share point via a Computer Group MCX. Students will 'see' everyone else's home folder but will have no access to them other than their own.
There are still further ways of doing this depending on the environment? For example AD-OD Integrated environments and dual homes?
Ultimately it will depend on what you want to achieve? AFAICS there's no reason you can't have with 10.6 what you have with 10.3? If it's been working flawlessly for the last 5 years and provided you've prepared the ground properly first, it should continue in the same way for the next 5?
HTH?
Tony

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I give you the following objectives I have for the use of these 1tb drives on the system and would appreciate any other advice you might have to offer.
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6)Drive #4. TimeMachine Backup for Drive #2.
Thoughts? I appreciate your questions and critique on my outline here.
Thanks much!

Off load /users to another hard drive
don't use internal drives for TimeMachine, especially both. Safer to be external. And if internal, use extra drive sleds.
Depending on what you use it for, the 640 might be fine. Maybe use it as a bootable clone though.

Can I install a version of snow leopard server on a newer Mac Mini model?

Hi-
I have Snow Leopard server running on a Mac Mini from 2010. I decided I really need some redundancy so want to get another and sync them in case of failure. Can I buy the latest Mac Mini model and install Snow Leopard server on it or will it not let me due to some firmware limitation? I've been able to do revert on other models and not others. Any thoughts?
Thanks.

****-So I have to find the latest Mac Mini that will run Snow Leopard Server? I refuse to upgrade to that crap they call server nowadays. It's Snow Leopard server till I move to Linux. Thing is, those Minis cost nearly as much now as they did when brand new. I feel like I'm getting ripped off. Oh well. Thanks for the quick answer guys!

Snow Leopard Server on brand new Mini; Gray screen

I installed Snow Leopard Server on a new Mini. The install went fine. Shut the mini down. Started it up about 24 hours later, and I get to the gray screen and that's it.
I exchanged the mini for a new one. Installed Snow Leopard Server on the new one. Install went fine. Ran updates. Restarted the mini several times with no problem. Shut it down, waited 24 hours, and now it's the gray screen again.
Now what?

There's a huge thread on this (client, not server, but same concept) which you can find here.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3209335?tstart=30

New Installation for Mac Os X Snow Leopard Server

Hi,
I am new to mack sertvers. Any one know, can I install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on this Dell server?????
Link for Dell server: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-r710/pd

Given sufficient free disk and available memory (10 GB or more free disk, and 2 GB or more physical memory, respectively), most any desktop Intel Mac will work with Mac OS X Server 10.6 Snow Leopard Server. This per the Snow Leopard Server 10.6 Technical Specifications.
Laptops can also work, but are not supported AFAIK, and Mac OS X Server isn't particularly suited for laptops.
Apple sells packaged configurations based on Mac Mini (Mac Mini Server) and Mac Pro (Mac Pro Server).
The upcoming Lion Server requires specific Intel processors.

New Leopard server installation; no user calendars via Web?

We have just done a clean install and migration of all users from a Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) server to a 10.5 (Leopard) one and are trying to figure out how to enable the user calendars.
Have done the step of turning on iCal server, which seemed to be necessary anyway to get the blogs working, and configuring it for SSL with a self-signed cert. Have also enabled calendaring in Workgroup Manager for the users we wish to provide with calendaring. Have also been able to figure out how to subscribe (read-only) to a user or a group calendar, and how to add an account via iCal to get read/write access to a user calendar via the "Preferences... Accounts" method described in other threads.
Why is it, though, that no user calendars or even links to them show up via the "Users" pages on the collaboration-services-driven web pages? Is the calendaring for users in Leopard server set up only to allow access via CalDAV clients, and not display these user calendars in or near the user's web pages, like the one that hosts their blogs? It seems odd that one can view and edit a group calendar via the web, but a user cannot see or edit his or her own calendar in the same way via the web. Did we miss something or do something wrong?

First of all: Don't store passwords. Store a hash of it. E.g. the specialized
Rfc2898DeriveBytes class or a
SHA hash. Make yourself familiar with the concept of salts.
Also important: Don't concat strings to build SQL commands. This is prone to
SQL injection. Use parameterized statments instead of it. E.g.
public DataSet RetrieveUserProfile(string email, string passwordHash)
DataSet result = null;
const string SQL_COMMAND_TEXT = "SELECT * FROM Detailed WHERE Email = @Email AND PasswordHash = @PasswordHash;";
using (SqlConnection connection = Class1.GetConnection())
connection.Open();
using (SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(SQL_COMMAND_TEXT, connection))
command.Parameters.Add("@Email", SqlDbType.NVarChar);
command.Parameters.Add("@PasswordHash", SqlDbType.NVarChar);
command.Parameters["@Email"].Value = email;
command.Parameters["@PasswordHash"].Value = passwordHash;
using (SqlDataAdapter dataAdapter = new SqlDataAdapter(command))
result = new DataSet();
dataAdapter.Fill(result);
return result;
We are normally using CamelCase as it's C# not Java, thus method names start with upper-case letters. Also Get is a reserved verb like set or do. It's only used for explicit getter methods. Parameter names are started with a lower-case letter.
Use the
using statement for classes which implement IDisposable. So your objects are properly disposed, even when an exception occurs in the inner scope.
And least, but not last: use a layered architecture. The actual WebMethod is only a
facade. So that you can use unit tests. See
Unit Test Basics.
p.s. there must be an
UNIQUE CONSTRAINT on the Email column in your table.

NEW to Snow Leopard Server - Config Q's

I recieved a free Mac Mini Server running Snow Leopard Server and would like to get some help configuring it. I would like to get FTP and VPN service running. I've already purchased a domain name with 1and1.com, but don't have the slightest idea on how to get the domain name to point to my server. Can anyone give me some pointers on how to do this as well as getting the 2 services running? Also, are there any good books on OS X 10.6 server?
Thanks in advance!

Does your Internet connection have a static IP address? If not you will need to use a service like DynDNS.org and if you want to use it with your own purchased domain name you will need to use the paid for level of service.
I use the free DynDNS service with Snow Leopard VPN with no problems. You would in both cases download and install the Mac client for DynDNS so it can update your domain name record.
Would you be using Open Directory? If so you would need to setup an internal domain name server, it is possible to use the same domain name both internally and externally - this is known as a split horizon DNS setup.
Apple's own Snow Leopard Server documentation can be accessed here http://support.apple.com/manuals/#server 10.6 with regards to third-party books, I cannot comment from personal knowledge as to which is best but a selection can be viewed via http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywo rds=mac+10.6+server

Can I install Snow leopard server on the new Mac Mini Lion server?

Hi guys, I purchased a Lion Server and I am wondering if its possible to install Snow Leopard server on it.
I have the Snow Leopard Server install discs and everything , just wondering if there is any thing I should take note of, I personally prefer SLS over Lion.
What do you guys think?

There's a huge thread on this (client, not server, but same concept) which you can find here.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3209335?tstart=30

Can't rename folders on Snow Leopard Server

I have 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Server running on a new Mac Mini server. Attached I have a Pegasus Raid storing all my files. I have a sharepoint set up for every project we work on but a couple act strangely. Users can create and delete folders but can not rename them once created. In order to rename they must drag the folder onto the desktop, rename and then replace the folder on the server. All permissions are set up identical to the other sharepoints which work fine. I have had a couple so-called "experts" look at the permissions in both the terminal and Server Admin. Everyone seems stumped. Any ideas?

Thanks for the input but I finally soved the problem. Here is what I found...
Although I had given users/group the ALLOW/FULL CONTROL premission with a sharepoint, I discovered that in Server Admin if you double-click on the User or Group name under the ACL permissions that a drop down box appears. This box allows you to fine tune the ACL but it appears that by default all of the boxes are not checked even though I granted the user Full Control. After checking all of the boxes I was able to create and rename folders in my share as expected.
This also had an similar effect if I denied Full Control. Some of the boxes remained unchecked and it left holes in my system where denied users could still access some files. Again by checking all boxes these holes were closed.
Does anyone know how to change the default so that all boxes are checked when assigning the Full Control permission?

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