Six Tips for Homemade "Dot Mac" Servers 30
lisam writes "Alan Graham has an article on O'Reilly's MacDevCenter offering tips for homemade dot mac servers. Tips include creating a central file server, how to set up a central repository for iTunes, sharing images, collaborating with WebDAV, etc."
Re:Wake me up ... (Score:3, Insightful)
yes its mostly configuring built-in tools (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Wake me up ... (Score:1)
This is your 5am wake up call (Score:3, Informative)
1. It's not Linux, but a BSD [apple.com] distro can do it, out of the box.
2. Some of the suggestions require a little effort on the client side as well (The global iTunes settings, for example).
3. There's a WebDAV module for Apache 2.0. If you don't want to use the one already available on a Mac, and you can't be bothered to set it up yourself, then don't complain about it not already being done for you.
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Re:This is your 5am wake up call (Score:3, Interesting)
Previous article (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Previous article (Score:5, Informative)
The current article tells you what you can do with it
The useful articles are this one [drijf.net] which explains how to set up a fake
*ack!* (Score:5, Interesting)
Thanks for the links, BTW!
Re:*ack!* (Score:5, Interesting)
Still, I'd rather my backups were going to a server that I control, than one I don't.
Oh
Re:*ack!* (Score:3, Informative)
Seventh tip... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Seventh tip... (Score:2)
Web servers, I expect, would be better with oregano. Somebody try it and tell me how it turns out.
MP3s from a central server (Score:5, Funny)
Just because you bought that music doesn't mean you have the right to listen to it! Err...listen to it in more than one location, I mean.
Speaking of central music servers, refer to my
Instructions for a Linux .mac server?! (Score:1)
Who can afford more than one Mac??
My old P90 is readily waiting to double as a
Dude! Sex tips! (Score:1)
I thought that said "Sex Tips for Homemade Dot Mac Servers"!
for all you mac server people.... (Score:3, Informative)
I wrote this piece... (Score:1, Informative)
Using Rendezvous etc to do this (Score:1, Interesting)
The step I am referring to is the "Central File Server" option. Letting you log in from any machine to use your own home directory is (obviously) good as Sun and Apollo etc showed years ago. What is needed is to make it TRIVIAL to set up so that those houses that have 2 or more machines (this will be more and more common) can access it. The items in the tutorial are good, but should be easier. For example:
1. You would plug in your machine to the power and either via wire or airport it would discover the machines and users (and find one if it was already designated a "master" aka server) machine.
2. Then you would authenticate yourself to the server and access your home directory files - e.g. iTunes, iPhoto etc.
3. You could use the "auto-login" feature once it was authenticated etc.
Using NetInfo and OS X Server you can do it, but neither my mom nor my cousin could do it and that is the audience you want!
Also Syncing (Score:1)
Backup and portability goodness.