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Besides the OS X Server Admin app and the X Serve's Server Monitor apps, can I use Apple Remote Desktop with an XServe?



What about VNC? IS it safe to run on an XServe?



[ 01-03-2003: Message edited by: dstranathan ]</p>

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  • Reply 1 of 6
    [quote]Originally posted by dstranathan:

    <strong>Besides the OS X Server Admin app and the X Serve's Server Monitor apps, can I use Apple Remote Desktop with an XServe?



    What about VNC? IS it safe to run on an XServe?



    [ 01-03-2003: Message edited by: dstranathan ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Apple Remote Desktop works fine but you can do everything with the server apps pretty much.



    Daniel
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  • Reply 2 of 6
    xoolxool Posts: 2,460member
    Here'e a question...



    Whenever I create a new User using the Workgroup Manager I have to manually create their home directory in

    /Users . I am creating Local users. (We only have this single XServe and no fancy directory services, etc.) Am I doing something wrong? I would think their home directory would be made for me. Its annoying to have to SSH in just to cp a directory.



    Any ideas?
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  • Reply 3 of 6
    jlljll Posts: 2,713member
    [quote]Originally posted by Xool:

    <strong>Here'e a question...



    Whenever I create a new User using the Workgroup Manager I have to manually create their home directory in

    /Users . I am creating Local users. (We only have this single XServe and no fancy directory services, etc.) Am I doing something wrong? I would think their home directory would be made for me. Its annoying to have to SSH in just to cp a directory.



    Any ideas?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Depending on your settings, Mac OS X Server will sometimes create the homedir when the user logs in the first time.
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  • Reply 4 of 6
    [quote]Originally posted by dstranathan:

    <strong>What about VNC? IS it safe to run on an XServe?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I used to run VNC on Server version 10.1. It wasn't on an XServe, but I don't know why the hardware would make a difference.



    I guess technically using VNC opens up another way for someone to wiggle into your system - but I don't know of any particular security issues it brings up that other holes in your firewall won't bring up.
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  • Reply 5 of 6
    xoolxool Posts: 2,460member
    [quote]Originally posted by JLL:

    <strong>



    Depending on your settings, Mac OS X Server will sometimes create the homedir when the user logs in the first time.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Interesting... I'll try that out.
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  • Reply 6 of 6
    cooopcooop Posts: 390member
    I posted the following in Apple's online discussion board for Workgroup Manager but got no replies. It's a little off topic but what the hell... [quote]I'm having some difficulties in setting up a group directory. Essentially, I've set up /Groups as an automountable share point and set a particular group to have a directory in /Groups and to have the group directory mount at startup. However, this doesn't happen and the /Groups directory on the server has zero items, even though I've set a group to have a directory in this folder. Any ideas?<hr></blockquote>
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