Setting up a Server for Filesharing use.

Hi
I work for a small UK based charity - we are just 4 employees - helping with conservation of wildlife, promotion of education and support of communities throughout Africa. Each year we raise about £1.8 Million and currently have 42 projects running in 17 African countries.
We are about to purchase an Mac Mini with Snow Leopard Server as our first ever office server. Initially, the main purpose of new server is for storing sharing files as currently was have no form of centralised storage nor do we have a central back-up policy.
As we are a small team, we spend a lot of time out of the office and so will need remote access to the central document / fileserver etc.
I have one question at this stage - is it better to set up remote access via the Snow Leopard’s VPN software - or - is it possible / easier / better to do this via the new Mobile Access Server application?
If I have to go the VPN route I would welcome any advice on how this is configured / set up - and also whether I need to request a fixed IP from our ISP to make it work.
I am very new to Mac Server Software and also Networking (IP / security etc.) and so would be really grateful for any help / advice / links to help-sites etc.
Thank you!
Bob

Green, Bob wrote:
Hi
I have one question at this stage - is it better to set up remote access via the Snow Leopard’s VPN software - or - is it possible / easier / better to do this via the new Mobile Access Server application?
If I have to go the VPN route I would welcome any advice on how this is configured / set up - and also whether I need to request a fixed IP from our ISP to make it work.
I am not familiar with the Mobile Access Server approach, but have implemented the VPN option. There are several factors to consider. Regarding fixed IP address, that is definitely the preferred method, though the dyndns.org approach also works. Of more importance is the bandwidth that your internet connection provides. Most end-user connections have fast download speeds but the upload speed are severely curtailed. If you intend to grab data from within your own facility, the upload speed will be very important.
The VPN approach, to me, is the correct way to go about it. It basically makes your remote machine pretend it is sitting in your office. You can connect to the OpenDirectory LDAP server, have it tell your machine about automounts, allow remote authentication, and a host of similar things.
A Mac Mini is certainly a decent platform, though my preference is running on a Mac Pro, that way you have a much stronger hardware platform that can run, for example, a RAID setup.
The last time I used Rumpus, it was basically an FTP server. If that is the approach you're thinking of using, you might be better off using a 3rd party ftp site, as the access speeds will be way higher.
Another approach, if the amount of data that is shared is minimal, is dropbox.com. It is by far the best system I've seen to share data, as any modifications you make are very quickly mirrored to every other machine that is part of the group. The caveat is that their large-quantity data plans are pricey.

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