Small Business Network with Guest services

Hello we're looking to launch a brand new network here to replace our cobbled together one.
I am pretty sure that OS X server with Airport Extreme's can take care of these tasks, but I am getting a little confused with all the online documentation.
-So, can I setup OS X server to be the authenticator for a WEP2 Enterprise WiFi network (based on user accounts on the server)
-Does the roaming network actually work. By which I mean to say, will a user really be able to walk across campus seamlessly connecting to the strongest signal around?
-Will the guest network be distributed across the whole bridged network and keep the staff network invisible? In addition to providing unique IP's for each guest client?
I'm unsure if A device such as Netgear's WC7520 and their AP's (WNDAP350) are going to be worth the money if I can do essentially the same thing with airport devices and my existing os x server. It sounds easier to deploy with apple specific devices too.

Hello YWAM Salem. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
So, can I setup OS X server to be the authenticator for a WEP2 Enterprise WiFi network (based on user accounts on the server)
Yes, OS X Snow Leopard server provides RADIUS as part of its Directory Services and Authentication feature.
Does the roaming network actually work. By which I mean to say, will a user really be able to walk across campus seamlessly connecting to the strongest signal around?
In theory? Yes. In practice? Mostly.
Will the guest network be distributed across the whole bridged network and keep the staff network invisible? In addition to providing unique IP's for each guest client?
If you are referring to the guest networking feature of the AirPort routers, then no. AirPorts, configured as bridges do NOT support guest networking.

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I am at my wits end with this problem: We have a small business network consisting of 6 Mac Pro computers and 2 Windows PCs. Everything was working fine until we needed to replace one of the WinXP machines with a Windows 7 machine. None of the Macs can see the PCs unless they physically type in the IP address (they used to show up in the finder as the computer name). None of the PCs can access the Macs at all and now shares on one of the Macs are no longer visible by the rest of the network. Any help would be appreciated.
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Mac Pro 10.6.8 (x4)
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I have made sure that every computer uses the correct workgroup name and that all file sharing is enabled.

I've seen it take 45 minuyes for a PC to announce it's name on the network, just sayin'.
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That is because the phone is locked to the Orange network and an o2 sim card is not going to work with a phone that is locked to Orange.
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I have a small business with two employees and an intern computer station and we are badly in need of a better networking situation. Currently we have two ibooks that connected together in a LAN, and a powerbook at a remote location that is not part of the network. I need a way to connect all three computers together so we can share files efficiently and without the constant permissions problems that we are currently having with the two computers. In the current setup, one of the ibooks is the server/workstation 1, and the second ibook is workstation 2. Clearly I need to get a dedicated machine to function as a server, and I thought it would make sense to get OSX server.
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 should get at least an iMac G5 or Intel iMac.
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4) What's the best solution for shared calendaring, preferably one that syncs to Palm devices?
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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
should get at least an iMac G5 or Intel iMac.
So here are my questions:
1) Will this work? If I create an admin account on a
central server machine, can three users log onto it
simultaneously to access documents?
yes they can however to avoid the permission issues you would be best using a piece of shareware called Sharepoints in order to create shared folders or volumes in the same way OSX server does.
They won't need
to run applications from the server, and the document
types they will be running will be almost entirely
Word, Excel, or Filemaker (nothing too intensive).
2) Will there be issues with multiple users opening
documents at once?
there may be issues if 2 users opened the same document at once if they both need to write changes to the document. If 2 users opened the same document just to read it that would be no problem.
In my experience opening a shared spreadsheet will be locked as read only if another user is already editing it.
3) How can remote logon work to this server?
Remote login is done using a protocal called SSH. To learn how to setup SSH you can use this howto. You would need to configure the server with a fixed IP and do port forwarding from your router to that mac.
Unfortunately the network doesn't have a fixed IP
adress.
You can use a dynamic domain name check out dyndns.org.
) What's the best solution for shared calendaring,
preferably one that syncs to Palm devices?
Not sure I have never used a share calander.
5) Is a dual-core iMac the slowest machine that this
setup should work on? Will it be fast enough?
I used a 450mhz cube for 5 years as my file server, mail server, web server etc it is now all running on a 1.2 ghz g4 mac mini.
I use the mini without a monitor. I log in via ssh and run a VNC client over the ssh tunnel.

Office Small Business 2007 with BEx

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You have not understood that I told you
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Hi guys
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take longer than expected.
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does gpresult and rsop.msc need to be run from the machine with the issue? because I cant login to do that, it doesnt get that far.
And I have already done a full re-install but this didnt help
I see there is a folder redirect in place which redirects the desktop and documents to the server, could this be the issue? Just seems like a user profile issue but Im not sure what to check?
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Folder redirection + other restrictions might end up with an empty desktop environment.
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Create an OU
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Move the computer account to this OU and reboot it
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When you need to get something faster, look for a second hand xerve - we use them all the time. They have the advantage of have fast and very reliable discs, also you can raid the disks and hot swap them for backup purposes,
Finally, moving from one machine to another is each with things like carbon copy. But you cannot have the same licence for OSX server running twice, so you will need to install normal OSX on the iMac once you have done the move.
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I am managing a small Novell NetWare environment that consists of: (2) Netware 6.5 SP6 boxes, (7) Windows XP SP3 workstations, and (2) network printers. These devices are all connected to a basic, unmanaged, 10/100/1000 Mbps switch (Netgear JGS524).
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