When that completes you’ll be on the Lion desktop. Once you have done that you can then go through the server setup procedure. You log in as root with the full password again. So once you have that, you log in via screen sharing, using vnc:// in Connect to Server or Safari with the server IP address. Once you’ve got Apple Remote Desktop server started, you can then use screen sharing on your computer–and by the way, you have to figure out the IP address of the server computer that’s most easily done by looking in the AirPort or router DHCP log, you need that for the root login too. That command is documented in an Apple tech note, if you search for “kickstart” in Apple’s tech database you can find it.
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Then there is a long obscure command for starting the Apple Remote Desktop–that’s the screen sharing server. it does turn out that somebody else figured out a similar technique for Leopard Server some years ago, but I hadn’t found that guy’s blog post when I figured this out.īasically you have to SSH in to the root account of the new server, and the password is the serial number of the Mac Mini you just bought.
MAC MINI SERVER MAIL SERVER HOW TO
So we had to figure out how to install this server, with no screen or keyboard attached to it. Or at least we haven’t yet figured out how to.
MAC MINI SERVER MAIL SERVER MAC OS X
However if you have the server admin tools installed on Mac OS X 10.6 you can’t. If you have another copy of Mac OS X Server on another computer, you can use its copy of the server application to connect to the freshly started new Mac Mini Server and that will allow you to remotely configure it. But if you don’t, you have the following option, which is barely documented.
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It’s easy if you have a screen and keyboard attached. The thing about a server is that you don’t really need or even want a screen or a keyboard attached to it, it’s a waste, especially if it’s a Mac Mini and it can just be stashed somewhere.īut you need to be able to set up the Mac Mini Server, and Apple doesn’t make this easy, for no good reason. You can buy a Mac Mini Server–it’s a tiny little computer and it can sit practically anywhere. We did that the other day with a Mac OS X Server installation. We measure triumph in our ability to solve problems that there don’t seem to be easy solutions to. We had a bit of a triumphant moment here at IvanExpert the other day.