What's the difference between Mac OS X Server and Mac OS X, besides the server tools. Anything different about the main operating system. Is one faster than the other?
let's begin. I've purchased Tiger Server but haven't installed it yet. What kind of problems can I expect to have?
They've "simplified" DNS rather, perhaps problematically depending on what you need to do with it, be prepared to hand-craft you zone files though. Applecare also advised me that I should put the server in a subdomain. I've seen some slow kerberos authentication too. I've seen sporadic server dropouts within server admin
Mail needed lots of massaging to get working on a new install, directory creation and config file creation/copying.
Oh and they whole way you do hostnames now is, odd. Software distribution is good but hung server admin a few times for me.
You may not see these problems however, and ACLs are worth the price alone.
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Basically it's designed to be run as a ..... server :-)
When you need to have DHCP server, Open Directory Master / Replica, VPN, print services server, etc, etc...
Many of these (if not all) can be run on OS X (client) but you would need to download the packages and configure them..
Originally posted by piwozniak
don't even begin...
let's begin. I've purchased Tiger Server but haven't installed it yet. What kind of problems can I expect to have?
Originally posted by fahlman
let's begin. I've purchased Tiger Server but haven't installed it yet. What kind of problems can I expect to have?
They've "simplified" DNS rather, perhaps problematically depending on what you need to do with it, be prepared to hand-craft you zone files though. Applecare also advised me that I should put the server in a subdomain. I've seen some slow kerberos authentication too. I've seen sporadic server dropouts within server admin
Mail needed lots of massaging to get working on a new install, directory creation and config file creation/copying.
Oh and they whole way you do hostnames now is, odd. Software distribution is good but hung server admin a few times for me.
You may not see these problems however, and ACLs are worth the price alone.