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Chapter 1Lion Server: An OverviewIn This Chapter▶ Answering the burning question: Why do I need a server?▶ Exploring the services and tools in Lion Se

18Part I: Getting Lion Server Up and Running Spotlight ServerFor Mac users, Spotlight is an indispensable search feature that lets you find a file alm

19 Chapter 1: Lion Server: An OverviewThe Server application For simpler networks, you can spend most of your server management time in the Server

20Part I: Getting Lion Server Up and Running Figure 1-4: The File Sharing pane of the Server app. Figure 1-5: The Next Steps button provides informa

21 Chapter 1: Lion Server: An Overview ✓ Alerts: Here, you find alerts that Lion Server can send you. You’re alerted to conditions of low disk space,

22Part I: Getting Lion Server Up and Running Figure 1-6: The General pane of Server Admin provides information about the server setup. 3. Double-cl

23 Chapter 1: Lion Server: An Overview 3. Select the check box next to your service (see Figure 1-7) and click the Save button in the lower right.

24Part I: Getting Lion Server Up and Running Workgroup Manager Workgroup Manager is a more advanced tool for setting and managing user accounts tha

25 Chapter 1: Lion Server: An Overviewand click Exposé & Spaces. Now uncheck Show Dashboard as a Space at the bottom of the screen.Podcast Compose

26Part I: Getting Lion Server Up and Running Xsan AdminXsan is Apple’s cluster file system for accessing terabytes of storage arrays. Xsan Admin is wh

27 Chapter 1: Lion Server: An OverviewServices removed from Server Admin but not in the Server appThe missing service people complain about most is pr

10Part I: Getting Lion Server Up and Running Why You Need a ServerYou’ve probably discovered that you can have a small network without a server. Macs

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11 Chapter 1: Lion Server: An Overview 5. People keep changing settings on Macs, messing things up. With a server, school computer labs and even user

12Part I: Getting Lion Server Up and Running Windows server versus Lion ServerMac OS X Server is inexpensive compared to Windows servers. Microsoft ha

13 Chapter 1: Lion Server: An OverviewLion Server can “push” configuration changes out to the devices using Apple Push Notification services, which yo

14Part I: Getting Lion Server Up and Running including Microsoft Active Directory. To keep the network secure, directory services authenticates client

15 Chapter 1: Lion Server: An Overviewrouter or from other servers on a larger network, but Mac OS X Server has them if you need them. These services

16Part I: Getting Lion Server Up and Running (CGI) scripts for creating dynamic web pages and for functions, such as taking data that a user enters in

17 Chapter 1: Lion Server: An Overviewthose for mail, calendar, contacts, and other things. It can also contain rules for passwords, as well as restri