On Feb 17, 2012, at 1:44 AM,2/17, Ashley Aitken wrote: > Hi Neil, > > Firstly, I am not an expert on Lion Server - I have never used it although I > have read about it and in the short term will probably install it on one of > our Lion machines to check it out further. > > Two things though: > > 1. Lion Server when released was not really ready for prime time. > > 2. Mac OS X Server in the past has not been very amenable to changing the IP > address. Generally speaking I think a server is not meant to be used in > situations when the IP address will be changing regularly, for example, as > you travel in your RV. > > Of course, extra hardware can help with these problems. For example, if you > had a modem/router that worked with USB 3G, and put the server on a static > private IP address.
Hi Ashley, thanks for the input. I will troll through Apple's boards for additional guidance. Like you . . .I've considered just playing with it awhile and seeing if it works or not . . .I'll probably end up doing that and either keeping a clone of the file server in case I decide to revert or else just run it in Parallels Desktop VM for testing purposes. Since it's just an app instead of a full blown server install and since Apple has a KB article on how to disable it . . .it's probably a bit easier to back out of then SL server was. The server will keep the same IP always anyway . . .we'll be using a WiFi Ranger for our router/firewall. This is similar to an Airport except instead of only having a single incoming WAN port (for the cable modem or FIOS modem) it's got both incoming wifi for using campground wifi as well as 3G air card input and satellite internet input; we'll have a choice of 3 incoming WAN ports which can be configured. On the LAN side the WiFi Ranger provides NAT and DHCP like an Airport does and everything inside will either have a static IP (file server) or a MAC address reserved DHCP but quasi-static IP . . .like you I found that SL server really didn't like it's IP changing much. I may also end up just keeping the setup the way I have it now . . .as I said it works but I occasionally have permissions problems on newly created folders or files on the share. I could get around this by either using Guest access instead of a particular user or else making the sharing user an admin user . . .but either of those bothers my "former Windows sysadmin and IT security guy" hat despite the relatively low insecurity either causes with an encrypted wifi and border firewall/router in place. Since I already have both Parallels and a developer membership it won't cost me anything to try things out other than a little time . . .and us retired folk have plenty of that; albeit not nearly as much as non-retired folks think we have and not nearly as much as I thought we would have. We're finding that this retirement stuff is pretty busy. ----------------------------------------------- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. neil _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
