No Control of OSX Server with ARD

Hello everybody,
I´m new to Mac OSX Server and would appreciate a little help. I use ARD on my G5 to control the other systems in my network. A few days ago, I added a Mac OSX Server to the network..
I activated Remote Desktop on the Server, still in ARD I receive a Access denied.
Any Help would be greatly appreciated . Thanks in advance.

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However, when I went to the apple store to talk to a
mac genius about it, the person I talked to told me
that it didn't make sense to get OSX Server with my
needs; I should just get a imac running Tiger (which
is what all the workstations are running) and use it
as a server by creating an admin account that the
three users have access to. He also said that a mac
mini wouldn't be fast enough for this purpose, I
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